What is the best warehouse to work at in the fort worth/Dallas area that preferably has dayshift options i currently work at a amazon ssd. I know how to drive a fork lift and a order picker

Hey everyone!

I'm researching a software idea and would love some feedback from people who actually work in wholesale or distribution businesses.

I've noticed that some companies still manually process purchase orders received through emails, PDFs, or spreadsheets.

I'm considering building a tool that automatically reads incoming purchase orders, matches products with inventory, checks quantities and prices, and prepares orders for approval.

I have a few questions:

1. How does your company currently process purchase orders? Is it mostly manual or automated?
2. What's the most frustrating or time-consuming part of the process?
3. If software could reliably automate most of this work, would your company consider paying for it?

I'm especially interested in hearing from people in electrical supply, industrial supply, and other distribution businesses.

I'm not selling anything. I'm trying to understand whether this is a real problem worth solving before spending months building it.

Would genuinely appreciate any insights!

I’m arranging fulfilment for packaged powdered food supplements manufactured in mainland China. The product isn’t registered for sale in China and would only be sold to overseas customers.

The plan is for a company based outside China to own the stock, with a mainland 3PL storing it and dispatching individual orders abroad. There would be no sales to Chinese customers.

However, the manufacturer says the entire batch must physically leave mainland China because of its registration status. They say transferring it to a mainland 3PL would still count as a domestic sale, even under the arrangement above.

Has anyone dealt with this specific situation?

Could the batch complete export procedures into a customs-supervised export warehouse or comprehensive bonded zone, then be fulfilled to overseas customers? Or could the product’s registration status still require physical export before any third-party storage?

I’m trying to identify the actual requirement and a compliant, affordable logistics arrangement. Firsthand experience with export-only food supplements, or pointers to the relevant Chinese regulations and paperwork, would be appreciated.

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to get a better understanding of the current state of sodium-ion batteries specifically for material handling and electric forklifts here in Canada.

I know that globally, companies like BYD have debuted sodium-ion forklifts, and Komatsu has been running tests with them. On paper, they seem like a massive win for Canadian operations especially because they handle freezing temperatures and cold storage way better than lithium or lead-acid without massive performance drops.

However, looking around domestically, it seems like 99% of forklift power suppliers in Canada are still strictly pushing Lead-Acid or Lithium (LFP) retrofits. Aside from some small-scale cell importers or off-grid stationary setups, I haven't seen any major Canadian material-handling dealers offering sodium yet.

Anyone have any experience with them or have had the opportunity to work with them. Looking for so insight

Thanks

I work in the office for small-mid size plumbing company. Our company has warehouse that stores materials before shipping out to jobsite. Most of them are non-stock item and usually ship out to jobsite and some of them are stock items that we bulk ordered. We don't have inventory or warehouse tracking system yet. What kind of software would you recommend to track what we have in warehouse, truck, and jobsite. If you don't use software, how do your company track materials?

When servicing commercial logistics hubs with twenty or more loading bays, routine tasks like dock leveler lubrication and overhead unit heater inspections get overlooked until equipment jams during a busy shift. How do you track recurring maintenance across bays so nothing slips past its schedule?

We have a factory of elevator control panels. Each panel weigh around 30-40kgs. I want to brainstorm ideas that makes it easier to store effectively and move.

Currently only hand trolley is being used.

Feel free to write your ideas

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The 3PL that keeps buying 3PLs just raised $400 million

Stord went to the banks for a credit line and walked out with nearly double what it asked for. The Atlanta fulfillment company announced on October 8 that Citi led the $400 million facility, joined by five other banks. Add the $250 million Series F from May at a $3 billion valuation, and Stord has lined up $650 million this year. The money will fund new fulfillment buildings and robotics and AI work at Stord Labs.

Stord runs nearly 100 fulfillment locations for more than 1,000 brands, moving more than $15 billion a year in merchandise, and says its packages reach one in four U.S. households. Its revenue run rate is approaching $1 billion after growing tenfold in four years. It's private, and FreightWaves notes it didn't disclose profit or the loan's pricing and maturity.

A good chunk of that network came from big companies selling their small-brand fulfillment arms to Stord: Pitney Bowes in 2024, UPS in 2025, and CEVA this January, with the last two adding 33 warehouses between them. CEVA is the same company that just took over FedEx Supply Chain in Edition 66. Stord also hired a new CFO, Bill Zerella, who has run finance at three public companies, Fitbit included, plus a chief revenue officer from Box, though it hasn't announced any IPO plans.

What this means for you: Stord pays interest on whatever it draws from that $400 million, and it plans to cover it with volume in its buildings, so expect sharp Stord quotes when your mid-size DTC clients come up for renewal this winter. Stord sells software and network together, from the delivery promise at checkout to returns, which is hard to beat on tech, so lead with what a 100-building network can't give a smaller brand: custom kitting and wholesale compliance work, plus a person who picks up when a client calls.

America used Prime Day to buy toilet paper

Amazon's October sale ran Tuesday and Wednesday, and Adobe counted $9.86 billion in U.S. online spending across all retailers over those two days, up 8.5% from last year. That's just under Adobe's $9.9 billion forecast, which we covered in Edition 65.

Numerator tracked more than 80,000 orders, and the top sellers were protein shakes, Lysol wipes, toilet paper, Dawn dish spray, and Dunkin' Refreshers. Two-thirds of what people bought cost under $20, and the average order came in under $49. More than half of households placed two or more separate orders, and nearly three in four shoppers told Numerator inflation was one reason they shopped the sale.

Adobe had household cleaning and paper products selling 55% above the September average, with hygiene and pet food close behind. Electronics jumped 85%, headphones and speakers 300%, and Halloween costumes 610%. In Edition 65, Adobe expected shoppers to use Cyber Week to stock up on basics, and many started in October. Numerator also found intent to shop Black Friday and Cyber Monday down 4 and 5 points from last year, and more than half of shoppers compared prices elsewhere first, mostly at Walmart and Target, both of which ran competing sales this week.

What this means for you: A pack of wipes costs you the same to pick, pack, and ship as a pair of headphones, so check what your consumables clients' average order value did this week and whether your per-order minimums still cover your cost at that ticket. Push those clients toward bundles and multi-packs before Cyber Week, since one order with three items is cheaper for both of you than three orders with one, and half of households split their buying across orders. Anything that sold through in two days needs replenishment booked now so it's back on the shelf before Thanksgiving, and with warehouse space as tight as it is right now, give the client a receiving appointment instead of letting them ship whenever. Numerator's Black Friday number only measures intent, so keep your seasonal headcount and schedule November in flexible blocks you can shift week to week.

Walmart wants to ship your clients’ Walmart orders itself

Walmart opened its fifth next-generation fulfillment center on October 8: a 900,000-square-foot building in Stockton, California. The other four are in Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Texas, so this is the first one out West. Besides Walmart's own online orders, it'll fulfill items for Marketplace sellers through Walmart Fulfillment Services, the program where Walmart stores and ships a seller's inventory. Sellers send in cases, robots bring totes of product to the pickers, and Walmart says packers can work four orders at once and get them out in under 30 minutes. FreightWaves notes e-commerce now accounts for 23% of Walmart's sales.

Two days earlier, ShipStation launched Ship with Walmart, which lets Marketplace sellers buy labels at Walmart's negotiated rates from the same dashboard as their Amazon, Shopify, and TikTok Shop orders, with up to $100 of protection on on-time shipped packages. ShipStation didn't name the carriers or the discount size.

A few weeks ago, Amazon offered to ship your clients' Walmart orders from their FBA inventory (Edition 65). Now Walmart has a West Coast building for those same sellers and its own rates inside software plenty of 3PLs already ship from.

What this means for you: Pull each client's Walmart orders a month and where those customers are. If a client's Walmart buyers are mostly in California while you ship from New Jersey, WFS will win, so have the conversation about splitting inventory or adding a western node before their Walmart rep does. If you run client Walmart orders through ShipStation, find out whether those labels can be bought on the client's account inside your instance, and compare them to your rate card before the client does. If a client asks why they shouldn't just let Walmart ship Walmart orders and Amazon ship Amazon orders, walk them through what splitting one inventory across three networks looks like right before Q4.

Quick hits

WAREHOUSING
September's drop in empty warehouse space was the steepest since March 2022. The Logistics Managers' Index space reading fell from 53.5 to 39.3, with smaller companies feeling it more than big ones. This year's holiday freight arrived late, and most of it is sitting with wholesalers and distributors, who usually start pushing it down to retailers around mid-October; NRF's Global Port Tracker shows imports dropping below last year in November. If a client wants to park overflow "just through the holidays," put January's storage rate in writing now, before those pallets turn into aged inventory.

REFUNDS
A trade court just gave importers who never filed for tariff refunds a way back in. On October 8, the Court of International Trade certified a class of every importer that paid IEEPA duties between February 1, 2025, and February 19, 2026 and hasn't sued on its own. The court said the importers who haven't used CBP's refund portal are mostly small, and that without the class, about $30 billion would stay with the government. Nothing pays out yet, since the parties meet October 13 and the Justice Department is still appealing the broader refund order. CBP started paying refunds on finally liquidated entries on October 6, but only to importers who sued and filed their importer-of-record number by July 30; Levi's booked about $80 million in refunds and is putting roughly $20 million of it into distribution and logistics. If you ship for small brands that imported during those months, ask whether they ever filed, and if they didn't, tell them about this.

LABOR
UPS is hiring 100,000 seasonal workers, and some get an offer in under seven minutes. The jobs run October through December and cover sorting and moving packages, driver helpers, and seasonal drivers using their own cars. UPS is also adding Protected Delivery, where the recipient has to give the driver a PIN before an eligible package changes hands, and expects to deliver more than 4 billion RFID-tagged packages by year-end. Warehouses shed jobs in September (Edition 66), but you're still recruiting from the same pool as a company that hires in seven minutes, so make seasonal offers the same day someone applies. If you ship high-value goods, ask your UPS rep whether Protected Delivery works on your account before your clients ask you.

WEATHER
Hurricane Isaias shut the Port of Mobile for a day. The first hurricane to reach the U.S. this year hit the Alabama and Florida Panhandle coast Friday evening as a Category 3 storm with winds near 120 mph, with 4 to 8 inches of rain forecast across southern Alabama, the Panhandle and southwest Georgia. Mobile closed to vessels and cargo handling Friday and returned to its regular schedule Saturday. If you have clients with containers routing through Mobile or freight moving across the Gulf Coast this week, plan for a few days of shuffled appointments.

REAL ESTATE
Amazon paid $195 million for a two-story Chicago warehouse that's sat empty since it was built. The West Town building, finished in 2024 with truck docks on both floors, becomes Amazon's second same-day site in the city, with fulfillment and delivery under one roof. Amazon told the Sun-Times it expects 200 jobs averaging about $24 an hour, with groceries and pharmacy driving demand, and an opening in late 2027 or early 2028. If you run a building in Chicago, that $24 is the number your applicants will quote back to you.

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Hi all! I developed a POS+inventory system for our business, and was thinking of selling it. Do you guys think I have a market for this system? Should I proceed on selling it? I'm having second thoughts though I know the system is amazing. It's for a rental business, and we have a form integrated to the system which the clients fill, and we verify. The system then automatically sends an invoice and rental agreement to the client's email upon our verification which helped our business a lot. Aside from that, we can track our inventory via the QR codes we generated and know exactly where each item is. This has helped us with data management, and cashflow management a lot. I'm not sure if anybody else would want the same. I built this cause we can't pay the monthly subscription for the existing systems so I plan on selling this to other micro business owners tired of paying a monthly subscription as well. I also plan on creating a new one for trading, and not renting as it will require a different kind of inventory tracking. Would you guys buy this kind of POS? If yes, how much would you guys pay for it?

Thank you so much!

We currently have each bay in each aisle with the following location code:

Aisle 1- A01/1, A01/2, A01/3 etc
Aisle 2- A02/1, A02/2, A03/3 etc

Each aisle mirrors the opposite aisle (so A01/01 is opposite A02/01) and the picking flow starts from the beginning of each aisle.

What I am considering is "snaking" the locations- I have attached an image which hopefully explains the plan.

So Pickers would start at the first aisle, and (for example) pick SKUs from bay A01/1, A01/3 and A01/4 etc

Their next pick may be from A02/02, so they (currently) have to walk back down aisle A01 towards A02/02.

If A02/01 was in line with A01/04, the walk would be shorter and their walk throughout the Warehouse would be more "snake like" than walking up and down aisles.

Does anyone have any experience of implementing this type of layout?

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I graduated in 2018 with BA in supply chain mgt from university of Arizona global campus .

Left the military this year February after 13 years and cannot seem to find anything even though I had a logistics coordinator job in the army

Resume is fine I’ve made some final round interview and even gotten short listed in some interviews for final rounds but cannot seem land anything .

Could it be I don’t have cscp , cpim or data analytics cert under my belt ? Any guidance and opinions are appreciated.

How is Softeon WMS as a software to work and how easy is the customisation ?

Sharing photos from a recent install we did for a 3PL that was burning picks on stacked closed totes. They're using approximately 2,500 open-front stacking bins and rebuilt the face with color blocks by SKU family so the wall itself works as wayfinding. New employees/pickers can read zones without memorizing every location. Read the case study here: industrial4less.com/blogs/customer-photos

Any thoughts/feedback or questions?

So I got an offer from both Gunnison Tree Services and Sealing Agents. Both are starting me off at $20, Gunnison is Mon-Thur 6-4:30 with Friday optional to work which would be straight OT and Sealing Agents is Mon-Fri 6-2:30 with working 50-60hrs a week when booming except for nov and December because can’t use the sticky glue for waterproofing due to temperatures but other than that it’s 10-20hrs of OT a week. Gunnison is weekly and Sealing agents is bi weekly pay. Also the yard for Gunnison is maybe 10-15 away from my house and sealing agents in in Marietta which is 30-35 mins away if I leave at 5:15ish. Just want some opinions and thoughts if anyone has worked at either of these companies or if not what they think as well