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A Look into 2026: Is a Supply Chain Robotics Takeover Inevitable?

AFFLINK

In a 2016 survey conducted by MHI and Deloitte, a logistics industry group, 35% of respondents said they’d already adopted robotics to maximize their supply chain optimization. The same report suggested that in 10 years that number will rise to 74%.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

IBP fully integrates strategy with rolling forecasts , with a process for enterprise resource reallocation and with a corporate communication plan (Van Hove, 2016). Mercedes Benz however sought to replace robots on its production lines with human labor, finding it just too costly to constantly reprogram the robots (Industryweek, 2016).

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E-Commerce 101: Going Cross Border, What Brands Must Know

Vinculum

According to Statista, only over 15 percent of e-commerce sales were cross-border in 2016. The worldwide cross-border e-commerce industry is expected to develop at a 27 percent annual CAGR from 2021 to 2027, reaching $4,8 billion in 2026. Despite a slight decline in worldwide retail spending, this is the reality.

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The Expected Growth of Manufacturing Technology Investments!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently predicted manufacturing will be the only major occupational group that will experience a decline in the 10-year period from 2016 to 2026. Growth of Manufacturing Linked to a Loss of Manufacturing Jobs? In fact, in the 10-year period from 2000 to 2010, the US lost 5.7 million manufacturing jobs.

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

Supply Chain Trend

Intelligent IBP in the making As early as 2016, I wrote about autonomous IBP , comparing IBP to an autonomous car. A Gartner report suggests that by 2026, over 65% of short-term decisions within supply chain planning will be automated or autonomous. One that I’m afraid has not been tested at a large scale.

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Guide to warehouse robots: types of warehouse robots, uses, navigation & more

6 River Systems

billion in 2016 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.8% kg to 10 kg (1.10231 lbs to 22.0462 lbs) range held the largest share of the warehouse robotics market in 2016 and is expected to grow at the highest rate during Market and Market’s 2017 to 2022 forecast period. The warehouse robotics market was valued at $2.28

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

We saw that starting to turn around in 2016 and continued to accelerate into 2017," he notes. If things don't change, and we continue up this progression, by 2026, we will be at 170,000 drivers short. Kearney and co-author of the report. "In In 2015 it was a dark story if you were a carrier. That's when things started to go crazy.