Fast, accurate returns keep inventory moving Most warehouses have a solid process for inbound freight. Purchase order comes in, you receive against it, you slot it, done. Returns are a different animal entirely. There's no PO to receive against, the condition is unknown until someone looks at it, and half the time the return lands on a cart near the dock because nobody knows where else to put it. That cart becomes a black hole. The core problem is that returns get treated as

Warehouse labor shortage across the country are running counts, picks, and ships with crews that are 20-30% smaller than they were three years ago. That's not a projection. That's Tuesday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been tracking warehouse and storage turnover north of 40% annually for years now, and anyone who's tried to backfill a lead counter or an inventory analyst in the last eighteen months knows that number feels conservative. The causes stack up fast. An agi