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Warehouse managers are adjusting workflows and keeping employees safe while also handling the new demand for e-commerce. (Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here.)
They still have conveyor belts. They still have forklifts. They still have racks.
Warehouse changes in the pandemic are about the people. Providing personal protective equipment. Redesigning employee break rooms. Rerouting workflows to maintain social distance in the aisles, especially ones with popular SKUs.
And parcels are dominating the traditional "pallet-in, pallet-out" model — with managers hiring and training thousands to keep up with e-commerce demand. Dig into the warehouse changes.
Why the decrease as we approach peak season? Palmer points to uncertainty around a federal stimulus and financial assistance for businesses impacted by the pandemic. Read more.
In a survey by Microsoft and Bain, 90% of supply chain decision-makers said they want to increase or maintain investment in real-time visibility, as shown in the chart below. Dive deeper.
Credit: Matt Leonard / Supply Chain Dive / data from Bain
In our business lives and our personal lives, we've stepped up cleaning efforts to guard ourselves from the virus.
I rarely sanitized my smartphone pre-pandemic. Now I cringe at the thought of putting a germ hotbed up to my face. As Ike Sherlock of Total Distribution said in today's feature story, the forklifts are the cleanest they've ever been — and why stop in the future? It's now a habit.
How many of the practices we adopted during the COVID-19 era will live on once the pandemic is long gone?
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Demand increased in most SKUs 
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