Is your supply chain focused on the customer experience?
March 4, 2020
Amazon’s supply chain begins with the customer and works backwards. But Amazon is not alone.
Other Voices: What Coronavirus means for e-commerce
March 3, 2020
As more shoppers turn to online alternatives to in-person shopping, supply chain disruptions could pile up.
Other Voices: No need to rip and replace automation
March 2, 2020
Intelligent technologies will have a fundamental impact on the way manufacturing and logistics organisations operate, but change does not have to be wholesale.
How Amazon wins the war for talent
February 28, 2020
Along with building out an unparalleled network, Amazon is investing in associates to win the war for talent
A visit to Amazon’s robotic fulfillment center
February 27, 2020
The robots are impressive, but what makes Amazon Amazon is delivering a customer experience. You don't get that by automation alone.
Other Voices: Five steps to ensure a healthier forklift fleet
February 27, 2020
With or without telematics, disciplined assessments of a forklift fleet and its batteries can improve facility operations as well as the broader supply chain.
Other Voices: Automation isn’t a fast track to nirvana
February 24, 2020
The way automation technology is deployed, orders are batched, schedules are planned and the way people are managed and skilled are the keys to realizing the potential of automation.
Other Voices: Tips for effective warehouse numbering schemes
February 21, 2020
Best practices in location slotting system can lead to increased accuracy, higher efficiency and labor savings.
Supply chain financing in transition
February 21, 2020
As banks move out of this space, new players are moving in
Other Voices: Optimizing visibility in the supply chain with 5G and edge computing
February 20, 2020
Digitally connecting and automating processes on the edge extends the reach and visibility of supply chains by dividing processes into sets of smaller, more manageable actions.
Other Voices: Secure RFID access control solutions reduce equipment-related risks
February 14, 2020
Combined with telematics, radio-frequency identification (RFID) help companies ensure compliance with OSHA regulations and significantly reduce risks for materials handling and construction operations.
Other Voices: Meet the next generation of warehouse workers
February 13, 2020
Companies must find ways to connect with new employees and remain mindful of training, retraining and engaging workers if they want to develop a highly functional and satisfied warehouse workforce.
Your Blockchain Project is Doomed If You Don’t Ask These Five Questions
February 7, 2020
Many Blockchain implementations fail because inadequate consideration is given to the complexity of scaling and managing the ecosystem
Other Voices: What’s next for the warehouse worker?
February 7, 2020
Warehouse innovations are in direct conflict with the generic, preconceived and outdated views of warehouse work as difficult, laborious and a low-paying.
Other Voices: The supply chain gets smarter with machine learning
February 5, 2020
Machine learning automates the analysis of the overwhelmingly complex and diverse data generated across the supply chain.
Supply chain management really does matter
January 31, 2020
The bankruptcy of Payless Shoes demonstrates the role supply chain management can play in a company's success - and failure
Two more trends for the record
January 10, 2020
Micro-fulfillment solutions. These are scaled down versions of e-commerce fulfillment engines, designed to fit in 8,000 to 12,000 square feet - the size of a typical back room in a grocery store or big box retailer. This is in the early stages of development, and there are probably more pilots than go-lives at this point, but it holds the promise to level the playing field between Amazon and retailers with a network of brick and mortar stores that can be utilized for...
Other Voices: 4 steps to get inventory costs back on track
January 6, 2020
Deep understanding of the variables, interdependencies and real-world risks will aid success in realizing sustainable inventory cost reduction.
What’s in store for 2020
January 1, 2020
Technology continues to be the driving force, but it's evolving.
Other Voices: The new Space Race in warehouses and distribution centers
December 27, 2019
Consumer demand is altering the supply chain and logistics landscape.