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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Alexa Heads to the Warehouse (WSJ – sub. Warehouse Space Growing Tighter on Rising E-Commerce Demands (WSJ – sub. So if you can provide warehousing, transportation and/or material handling equipment to support disaster relief efforts, I encourage you to contact ALAN. Alexa in the Warehouse.

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Disruptive Times Require Adaptive Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Distributed Warehousing. ” By that, he means, you have to locate warehouses closer to customers. Kevin O’Marah ( @komarah ), Chief Content Officer at SCM World, notes the increase in distributed warehousing will have implications for “network topology, job design and materials management. ”[3].