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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. In my own defense, things kind of took off after 2014. Also, warehouse automation excludes similar systems such as airport baggage handling, manufacturing-line automation, and manually driven forklifts. billion in 2019.

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How IoT Improves Consumer Packaged Goods Value Chain

Savi

The pivot point has moved from production to customer delivery, and the primary constraint has moved from manufacturing to transportation. Driver Shortages: It is estimated that by 2026, the industry will be short 175,000 drivers. . This shift is hard to handle because the CPG industry spends at least 5% of revenue on transportation.

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Truck Driver Shortage: Getting Better, Worse, or No Problem at All?

Talking Logistics

Here are some excerpts from the press release : According to the report, ATA’s first in-depth examination of the driver shortage since 2015, the driver shortage eased in 2016 to roughly 36,500 – down from 2015’s shortfall of 45,000. “We I offered some ideas in a July 2014 post titled, Driver Shortage in Trucking: Time for Plan B.

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Looking Back at Previous Capacity Crunches & How Shippers Responded

GlobalTranz

The same held true after Superstorm Sandy and the unyielding winter of 2014, reports Lawrence J. Also, the driver short has continually grown worse for the last eight years, and it is expected to continue through 2026, asserts Iris Kuo of Trucks.com. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, capacity hit a breaking point.

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

Data gathering & cleansing, descriptive analytics, dashboards, reporting, operational and basic planning decisions, can be automated where possible (mostly in the S&OE horizon, but also beyond). A Gartner report suggests that by 2026, over 65% of short-term decisions within supply chain planning will be automated or autonomous.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

A report proposing three system solutions that could reshape the industry and set the clean energy technology sector on a path to sustainability. Read the short version of this report on Medium. Chapter 2 of this report outlines some of the barriers observed to play a prohibitive role to transparency for REE mining and processing.

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' annual State of Logistics report attempts to offer just such a map -- accompanied by some timely warnings. Kearney and co-author of the report. "In If things don't change, and we continue up this progression, by 2026, we will be at 170,000 drivers short.