Introducing The Material Handling Industry

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Introducing The Material Handling Industry

• Every product youve ever used, from televisions
  to tennis shoes, has been manufactured, stored
  and shipped to you with the help of the
• material handling industry.

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Who we are

• In the United States alone, material handling is
  a 156 billion industry employing more than
  700,000 people.
• Despite its size, material handling remains
  largely unknown as an industry because its work
  is done behind the scenes of the greater supply
  chain.

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What we do

• Material handling is the ONLY industry that
  touches every product as it moves through the
  global supply chain to the consumer.
• The worlds most successful companies use
  material handling solutions to gain a competitive
  edge by improving their customer service
  efficiency, improving productivity and maximizing
  growth and profits.

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Industries Served

• Food Grocery Products
• Electronics
• Automotive
• Retail
• Construction Building Materials
• Pharmaceuticals Health Care

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How material handling works

• Material handling uses a broad array of
  equipment, systems, services and expertise to
  move products through the supply chain such as
• automation, information technology, automatic
  identification, lifting equipment, storage
  equipment, conveying equipment, facilities design
  and planning, ergonomic and safety equipment,
  sustainable and green solutions.

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From Assembly Lines.

• Forklift trucks, automated guided vehicles, and
  conveyors are all moving product from one place
  to another in todays industrial plants.

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To Warehouses

• Storage and retrieval systems, shelving, racks,
  mezzanines, carousels, bar coding, radio
  frequency identification devices and data
  collection are just some of the solutions in
  todays dynamic material handling industry.

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From Front Offices

• Automated computerized control systems are
  stocking, identifying, storing, retrieving,
  moving and accounting for all of todays
  productsin the plants, on the road, in the
  storemaking sure the right product is available
  when needed.

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To Back Docks

• The latest in wrapping equipment, packaging and
  unitizing systems are all helping todays
  companies protect and ship their valuable
  products and materials, and its all part of
  material handling.

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How you can participate

• Thousands of career opportunities with
  competitive compensation and rewarding incentives
  are available in this exciting industry.
• Overheard from a material handling salesperson
  I love going to customer sites, dealing with
  people and seeing all the different applications
  for material handling equipment. Its a rare day
  when I see the same thing twice, and I really
  like that part of the job.

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Consider a career in the material handling
industry

• Sales and Marketing
• Project Management
• Operations Management
• Systems Integration
• Customer Service
• Information Technology
• Facility Planning Design
• Human Resources
• Finance

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