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  • Mercedes-Benz USA has broken ground on a new Vehicle Preparation Center in Brunswick, Ga. The new 70,000-square-foot facility, which will be located at the Georgia Ports Authority's Colonel's Island facility, will replace an existing facility in Florida. After it opens next summer, the operation will receive and process about 50,000 automobiles annually.
  • Brown Shoe Co. is building a new 350,000-square-foot distribution center at the Tejon Ranch Industrial Complex in Lebec, Calif., north of Los Angeles. The facility, whose handling systems are being designed and integrated by Fortna, will handle West Coast distribution for Brown Shoe's Famous Footwear division.
  • Bell Helicopter has opened a new 38,000-square-foot parts distribution center in the Calgary International Airport's YYC Global Logistics Park. The new facility will serve as the primary distribution facility for Bell's Canadian customers.
  • Weber Distribution, which provides dedicated warehousing and transportation services on the West Coast, has opened a new facility in Portland, Ore. The 12,500-squarefoot building is located just 10 miles from the Port of Portland and services several key clients, including Capsugel, Ventura Foods, Ghirardelli, and Kraft.
  • ProLogis has announced plans to develop 500,000 square feet of industrial warehouse space in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The site will include three buildings, which are expected to be ready early next year. The location is near the Juarez International Airport and offers easy access to the U.S. border.

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The Indian warehouse robotics provider Anscer has landed new funding and is expanding into the U.S. with a new regional headquarters in Austin, Texas.

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Automation delivers results for high-end designer

When you get the chance to automate your distribution center, take it.

That's exactly what leaders at interior design house Thibaut Design did when they relocated operations from two New Jersey distribution centers (DCs) into a single facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2019. Moving to an "empty shell of a building," as Thibaut's Michael Fechter describes it, was the perfect time to switch from a manual picking system to an automated one—in this case, one that would be driven by voice-directed technology.

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In search of the right WMS

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The company was operating on three different platforms across more than 35 warehouse facilities and wanted to pare that down to help standardize operations, optimize costs, and make it easier to scale the business, according to CIO Sean Moore.

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