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It sounds like pie in the
sky, yet one of my clients is considering implementing extensive automation to
avoid the ever-escalating costs of labor. His vision would still involve some
people, not a totally peopleless warehouse - one in which, day and night, all
physical movement of items is handled by automated equipment controlled by
software.
Numbers can be quite
revealing - and educational.
For instance, since 2006 nearly a quarter-billion people in the United States
have been affected by a federally declared weather-related disaster. Think
about that - four of every five people.
Supply House Times is once again conducting its annual Premier Distributors survey which ranks the Top 150 PHCP wholesalers by their sales from the past year. The 2011 Premier Distributor list will be based on sales for fiscal 2010. We do not disclose individual company sales but we need a figure in order to rank each company.