Last Mile Delivery

By leveraging a team of industry experts, the Last Mile Solution Center will support parcel and distribution businesses in automating last mile operations to improve processes, increase productivity and reduce costs.

New business models are transforming last mile delivery. Not all will survive.

Zethcon offers cloud-based warehouse management (WMS) software for the third-party logistics (3PL) market, while Made4Net is a global provider of cloud-based supply chain execution and warehouse management system (WMS) software for multiple end markets.

On this episode, CEO Charles Jolley discusses a new take on the last mile.

A startup is utilizing e-bikes and containerization to take trucks of the road and streamline last mile delivery.

The inaugural technology event had a focus on transportation software and autonomous vehicles

Download the new white paper Winning the Last Mile in the Supply Chain Race: Using Micro-Fulfillment to Synergize Online and Storefront.

In e-grocery, automated micro-fulfillment centers are catching on, but for general retailers and e-commerce sellers, other approaches are part of the picture. Providers are focused on helping online brands or other retail merchants quickly establish the network reach they need for next-day or two-day fulfillment.

On this episode, Jeff Burnstein discusses the growth of the industrial robotics market, and why now is the time to investigate robots for your operation. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

Playground Global and Schematic Ventures are backing the startup

MonarchFx and DeliveryCircle have collaborated to provide a same-day delivery service to any interested sellers with the ability to be customized for any special needs.

The latest iteration of last-mile delivery is rapidly changing not just how quickly we take delivery of our latest purchase, but the picking and packing of orders in the distribution center.

Slowly but surely, a conversion from vacant retail properties to industrial retail space appears to be under way. That is the word from Los Angeles-based industrial real estate firm CBRE. In a report, entitled “Trading Places: Retail Properties Converted to Industrial Use,” which was published this week, CBRE explained the main driver for this is due largely to shifting consumer preferences for e-commerce and in-store omnichannel platforms.

Our editors sat down with Ben Harris, Director of supply chain and advanced manufacturing for the Metro Atlantic Chamber to discuss On-demand delivery.

Simulation to showcase automated last-mile packaging distribution.