The UNEX Blog

Preparing your retail operation for long-term success means you’re likely elbow-deep in developing and implementing your holiday surge strategy right now. While your end cap displays are still months away from making their debut, your retail back room...

We’ve all heard of the need for continuous improvement in processes and operations, but is that enough in today’s fast-changing materials handling industry? A recent article in Material Handling 24/7 addresses that question in its discussion of the...

Consumers now have more ways to buy than ever before, a trend that is accelerating at rocket speed through partnerships, acquisitions, software innovations and device upgrades, prompted by demanding customers and lucrative new markets and boosted by the...

Back in 2014, when the MHI Annual Industry Report was titled “Innovations That Drive Supply Chains,” 84% of supply chain execs predicted that they would adopt inventory and network optimization tools within the next 3-5 years. Yet, now that 2018 is here,...

NextGen seems to be the supply chain industry’s favorite new terminology. But what does the term actually mean?

The 2018 MHI Annual Industry report has been released, and its findings are right on the nose. Titled "Overcoming Barriers to NextGen Supply Chain Innovation," the results from this fifth annual survey on supply chain innovation and challenges show that...

What trends and changes have changed the landscape of the warehousing and distribution industry in the last few years? This is a topic we have talked quite a bit about, as the e-commerce boom has kicked off a revolution of sorts in warehouse technology,...

You’ve heard the business cliché about the need to do more with less? While that usually translates into making people work harder, UNEX now offers a new storage line that actually helps pickers pick more product more safely in less space, with the added...

For all the talk about warehouse technologies, more than 60 percent of DC’s still use paper picking systems, according to a 2015 survey by Peerless Research Group. Admittedly, about half of those paper users also supplement their processes with select...

“The art of prophecy is very difficult,” noted Mark Twain, “especially with respect to the future.” With that in mind, we’ve been reading up on new-year insights offered by a range of industry experts, then borrowing from our Pickologists' expertise to...