The results are in for the tenth annual Shelving.com Business Scholarship contest! This year, we are proud to offer the largest prize amounts yet. Open exclusively to Michigan residents, this contest has highlighted some of the brightest minds in our community. Originating in Detroit and now based in Madison Heights, Shelving.com takes pride in supporting local students who demonstrate a strong commitment to using their education for positive change.  The top scholarship of $4,000 was awarded to Dylan Jiddou from Northville. The second-place prize of $2,500 went to Cameron Hendrix ..read more

  Over the past few years, the term “supply chain disruptions” has become familiar throughout various industries, but the real issues underneath this overarching problem can be much more specific than “disruptions.” Both before and after the pandemic, one of the biggest causes of these slowdowns in logistics was due to manufacturing disruptions. Certainly, while they’ve become far more commonplace since the pandemic, these breakdowns in the manufacturing process can have wide-reaching effects across the entire logistics pipeline.   What are manufacturing disruptions?   In short ..read more

In recent years, AI has become a popular topic amongst industries, with many boosting of its abilities to revolutionize your life and business. While this isn’t always the case, warehousing and logistics is an industry that can actually benefit from the use of AI. In fact, the warehousing and logistics industry has been one of the earliest adopters of this technology. However, just because someone else’s warehouse has benefitted from the use of AI doesn’t necessarily mean yours will. If you’re considering bringing AI into your warehouse operations, here’s a few questions you can ask to see if ..read more

While any distribution, logistics, or supply chain process comes with its own demands and challenges, pharmaceutical transportation and storage has a stricter set of regulations than many other industries. Between the inherent need to keep goods safe, consumable, and usable, and the combination of local, state, and federal regulations that govern how these goods can be transported, pharmaceutical storage is an ever-evolving goal.  Despite complications, pharmaceutical transportation and storage is still a goal for many warehouses, and with proper optimization of your pharmaceutical supply ..read more

  Maximizing warehouse storage efficiency is crucial for reducing costs and boosting profitability. Implementing smart storage solutions can significantly impact your bottom line by enhancing space utilization, streamlining operations, and improving inventory management.   Optimize Vertical Space One of the most effective strategies for maximizing storage efficiency is to optimize vertical space. Instead of expanding your warehouse footprint, invest in tall pallet racking and mezzanines. These allow you to use the height of your warehouse to increase storage capacity without the need ..read more

When it comes to modern warehouses, flexibility is the name of the game. These days, warehouses are being asked to accommodate more goods, and more varied types of goods, than ever before. This can be chalked up to a number of different factors, including the growth in ecommerce, the ongoing supply chain issues caused by the pandemic, and the fact that many modern businesses attempt to stock the widest amount of goods possible to appeal to the broadest audience it can. As a result, warehouses need to be increasingly nimble and versatile to accommodate. One way this can be done is with the use ..read more

For as helpful as warehouse mezzanines can be, we still tend to get a lot of questions about how exactly they can help a given warehouse.  While a lot of warehouses use mezzanines for all kinds of space-saving, product-storing purposes, the ways they can help your warehouse may surprise you.  If you’ve ever said to yourself “if only I just had that much more extra space in my warehouse”, these four uses for modular mezzanines might just be the solution:   Four Uses for Modular Mezzanines Additional workspace One of the biggest benefits a modular mezzanine can offer is an increas ..read more

Supply chains, especially in the modern warehousing landscape, can often be as fragile as they are important.  Disruptions of all kinds can impact your supply chain, from natural disasters and dangerous weather to product shortages, vendor unavailability, and technology outages. While accepting these potential supply chain issues is a fact of life for warehouses of any size or industry, there’s still a lot you can do to maintain the integrity of your supply chain while preparing for these potential issues.    What is supply chain integrity?   As much of a point of discussio ..read more

Technological updates, layout changes, organizational procedures…for your management and your staff, it can be hard to keep up with all the changes a warehouse can face through its lifetime.  Accordingly, you may be faced with the occasional idea that you need to be constantly retraining your entire staff. While this could give everyone a great idea of what they need to be doing, and when, it can also result in a lot of lost productivity, not to mention everyone starting to get frustrated with the constant meetings (not that anyone ever gets sick of meetings, right?).  It can be tric ..read more

Few words can ruin a warehouse manager’s day faster than “we’re out of that item” – aside from, perhaps, “we’re always out of that item”. While being out-of-stock on various goods is just par for the course, especially these days as we continue to recover from the supply chain issues brought on by the pandemic, being chronically understocked in popular items can cause a lot more problems to your warehouse’s income and operations over the long term. Much like with any understocking, this issue can be avoided with a little preparation and foresight – but how do you know where to start?   Wh ..read more