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	<title>Warehousing Insights &#124; Material Handling Systems &#187; Cross Docking</title>
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	<description>Warehousing Insights By Cisco-Eagle. Information on the products and techniques to better store, handle, and move products in your facility.</description>
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		<title>A Different Sort of Sorter</title>
		<link>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2011/12/02/a-different-sort-of-sorter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stonesr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sortation systems in distribution is application driven &#8211; typically we are talking about order fulfillment (retail, wave pre-sorting, inbound putaway sorts), shipping (end of line carrier sortation, ship to stores), and returns. Traditional sweep sorters, cross-belt, narrow slat &#38; shoe, or belt sorters are often thought of as &#8220;for the big guys&#8221; in large operations. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preventing Energy Leaks at the Dock Door</title>
		<link>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2011/09/20/preventing-energy-leaks-at-the-dock-door/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2011/09/20/preventing-energy-leaks-at-the-dock-door/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stonesr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cross Docking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any operation with dock doors faces an uphill challenge when it comes to preserving the climate inside. In particular, air-conditioned and heated facilities must face the reality of losing large volumes of treated air when trailers must be loaded or unloaded. Managers will be asked to scrutinize every expense, and the loss of climate controlled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hand Carts vs. Pallets for Retail Distribution</title>
		<link>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2011/09/19/hand-carts-vs-pallets-for-retail-distribution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2011/09/19/hand-carts-vs-pallets-for-retail-distribution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stonesr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cross Docking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retail distribution facilities have multiple options for shipping product to store locations. They can send full pallets which must be unwrapped, unloaded, and stocked at the store location. They can send packed carts that can easily be rolled onto store floors and stocked at the point of sale. What method works best? Like most things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seegrid Automated Pallet and Tow Trucks: No Driver Needed</title>
		<link>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2011/06/16/seegrid-automated-pallet-and-tow-trucks-no-driver-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2011/06/16/seegrid-automated-pallet-and-tow-trucks-no-driver-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stonesr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cisco-Eagle has partnered with Seegrid to offer automated, unmanned industrial pallet and tow trucks as part of our continuing focus on automated storage systems. Seegrid Automated, Unmanned Pallet Trucks &#38; Tow Carts Consider the time between the loading of a pallet and its arrival at a destination &#8211; maybe a minute, maybe several. Four minutes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Guide to Automated Stretchwrap Machinery</title>
		<link>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2011/02/19/a-guide-to-automated-stretchwrap-machinery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2011/02/19/a-guide-to-automated-stretchwrap-machinery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stonesr</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/?p=1238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve recently posted a guide to stretchwrap machine specification and justification. For operations with the kind of throughput where automation makes sense, machine driven stretchwrappers can enhance quality as well as increase speed. They also offer ergonomic benefits and material savings. Also, see: standard Stretchwrap Machine models and specs.]]></description>
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		<title>The Plight of the Warehouse Manager</title>
		<link>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2009/05/06/the-plight-of-the-warehouse-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2009/05/06/the-plight-of-the-warehouse-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stonesr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[distribution centers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/?p=335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the advent of widespread e-commerce fulfillment, just-in-time principles, lean management, supply chain collaboration, globalization, the need for ever-faster response, and constant pressure to reduce expenses through headcount and shift reductions, today&#8217;s warehouse manager is being asked to do more than ever before. According to the book World-Class Warehousing and Material Handling, by Edward Frazelle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing more with less: the core mission of material handling</title>
		<link>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2009/04/27/doing-more-with-less-the-core-mission-of-material-handling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2009/04/27/doing-more-with-less-the-core-mission-of-material-handling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stonesr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cross Docking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Space Saving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[labor costs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/?p=258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cisco-Eagle CEO Steven W. Strifler discusses ways to do more with less in a struggling economy Achieving more with less is a core goal of most businesses. In the warehousing and industrial world, that means building more, shipping more, doing more – controlling more – with fewer resources. The typical issue is labor in many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top 10 Distribution Center Locations for 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2009/03/22/the-top-10-distribution-center-locations-for-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2009/03/22/the-top-10-distribution-center-locations-for-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stonesr</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/?p=214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Operations &#38; Fulfillment (an excellent publication you should be reading if you aren&#8217;t already) has published a list of the top locations for warehouses and DC&#8217;s in 2009, in this article &#8220;Where to Warehouse: The Top 10 for 2009.&#8221; The winner this year was Henderson, Kentucky, assuming a single warehouse. Dallas, Texas finished among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quick guide to sortation conveyors &amp; systems</title>
		<link>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2008/09/21/a-quick-guide-to-sortation-conveyors-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2008/09/21/a-quick-guide-to-sortation-conveyors-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stonesr</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/21/a-quick-guide-to-sortation-conveyors-systems/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sortation Conveyors divert a product from one conveyor line to another. By using controls and multiple sortation conveyors, product can be sorted by diverting the product only to the appropriate conveyor. From basic pushers to sophisticated cross-belt sorters, distribution centers and warehousing operators have more options today than ever when it comes to automated product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Forest for the Trees &#8211; Is your operation in need of review?</title>
		<link>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2008/07/23/the-forest-for-the-trees-are-things-going-okay-in-your-operation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cisco-eagle.com/blog/2008/07/23/the-forest-for-the-trees-are-things-going-okay-in-your-operation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stonesr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warehousing is tough. Manufacturing is tough. Order fulfillment is tougher; the longer the operation runs the more difficult it can get. You deal with constant disruptions , and the system you carefully designed a few years ago may not be working as well today, after changes in your business climate, personnel changes, SKU alterations, new [...]]]></description>
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