Inside Supply Management: ‘Peak season’ has been here for months

From Inside Supply Management:

Due to the pandemic, e-commerce distribution and fulfillment facilities as well as sort centers have been running at what normally would be considered peak levels for months, says John Sorensen, senior vice president of life-cycle performance services at Louisville-based Materials Handling Systems Inc., a provider of materials-handling automation equipment and software. However, the company’s customers expect the holiday season “to still be incrementally higher than baseline pandemic levels, which puts it higher than any other peak season,” he says.

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