Warehousing Educational Research Council Webinar

Post-Pandemic Impacts on the DC & How to Ensure Resiliency

August 6th, 1PM CT

WERC Webinar Synopsis:

As the coronavirus outbreak has spread, unprecedented challenges have arisen in distribution centers all over the world.

Extraordinary measures have been taken to keep goods and services moving. The need to quickly develop and adopt new capabilities that ensure long-term resiliency is now firmly on everyone’s minds.

This webinar session addressed 3 fundamental shifts in the DC, their impacts, and how to build the capabilities required to maximize resiliency and long-term sustainability.

1. Consumption Changes – how consumer consumption patterns effect the DC’s processes and strategies to meet the new demands.
2. Re-Shoring Manufacturing
3. Robotics and Automation

Length: 30-minutes | Fee: Complimentary

Building on this impactful webinar, we have commissioned an eBook that will help supply chain leaders recover and pivot quickly from the impacts of the pandemic:

With competing DCs already adapting to the new post-pandemic realities, enabling productivity gains in the face of social distancing guidelines and employee absence due to sickness, and a 2nd wave of the pandemic expected in late 2020, management needs to plan ahead. The time for the resilient distribution center starts today.