Archive for Dec 2012

Inventory equilibrium key component of risk mitigation

Featured on FinancialPost.com Article by Denise Deveau Just about every inventory-carrying business will have faced a crisis of some sort. The 2011 “winter that never was” left stockpiles of seasonal wear with no buyers on board. With the NHL lockout, warehouses are chock full of promotional items...

Canadian 3PL Thinks Robots

Featured on CanadianManufacturing.com Article by MM&D Staff VAUGHAN, Ontario—Online retailer Amazon.com Inc was so enamoured with Kiva Systems LLC’s orange, storage pod retrieval robots, that in March of this year it purchased the automated materials handling company for US$775 million. A Canadian 3PL, Think Logistics, understands the attraction....