Laura Adams, Senior Director, Supply Chain Solutions, and Joe Napoleon, Senior Analyst, Supply Chain Solutions, recently spoke to students in a graduate class in Supply Chain Management at Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech).

DSC is piloting new Pick and Load technology for efficient truckload balancing. Using customer item master and outbound information, DSC’s engineering team designs rules for trailer loading to achieve optimal balance. As orders are transferred to the Pick and Load system, the system generates a load diagram specifically for that order with instructions that employees follow when picking and/or.