Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 3, 2024

The mobile warehouse robotics market is no doubt a crucial piece of technology to achieve warehouse automation. At this point, we can see the market reaching some maturity, where more end users recognize the benefits and essentiality of automating warehouse and logistics operations with mobile robots.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2025

The market is voting with us, not just in terms of having common applications on the same platform, but having those applications connected to a network. Blue Yonders warehouse management system solution is their top-selling application. Angove asserts is three or four times their nearest competitor. Last year, it grew to 3.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

To improve their operations, they installed autonomous mobile robots in their warehouse. According to a survey of 250 global companies by the consulting firm McKinsey, 91% of shippers and 75% of logistics service providers have implemented a warehouse management system. Can a warehouse with so few pickers get good payback from AMRs?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010. The new law meant that the way medical systems operated had to change. Expanded health insurance coverage led to increases in the demand for care. The ACA led to a move away from fee-based services and toward compulsory value-based payment initiatives. There are several St.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In the age of same-day delivery and rising consumer expectations, there is immense pressure on warehouses to perform at peak efficiency. That’s where warehouse optimization comes in. Here’s what you can expect: A clear definition of warehouse optimization and its core components. Ready to get started?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Volatile markets, global disruptions, and the need for real-time insights are pushing traditional systems to their limits. data extractors, search APIs) to perform tasks, enabling them to dynamically adjust to new information and real-time knowledge sources. Typically, these systems consist of standard-task agents (e.g.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 27, 2022

I just completed the data gathering process for ARC’s global Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) market research study. Also of interest was integration with complementary technologies such as warehouse automation and robotics. Modern APIs, pre-built connectors, and warehouse analytics were all noted.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 5, 2023

I engaged in numerous discussions with robotics executives last year as I was developing ARC Advisory Group’s mobile warehouse robotics (AMR) research. CLINT: Mark, I came across many former Kiva Systems employees during my discussions with executives at warehouse robotics companies. Fast forward to the 2023 ProMat show.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Mr. Masson points out the “challenges are not just about the volume, but also the complexity and fragmentation of data generated by sensors, machines, and smart factories. Warehouse management systems rely on RF scans of locations and products. Mr. Masson leads ARC’s research on industrial AI and data fabrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One element of warehousing that can have a negative impact on supply chain costs is the way in which the space is set out and utilized. How many of the following five inefficiencies do you recognise within your company’s warehouse layout? 5 Ways to Achieve Efficient Warehouse Design: Improve Layout Efficiency & Save Costs!

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2025

Think of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the drought in the Panama Canal, the Russia-Ukraine war, blockage of the Suez Canal, or the 2024 International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) strike at East and Gulf ports. Its a rollercoaster for logistics and supply chain leaders operating in global markets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2025

As you would expect, major emphasis was placed on the role of AI to deliver accurate, timely, and improved decisions at all points of supply chain processes using a combination of human-to-AI agent and agent-to agent collaboration. We are a quarter of the way into the 21 st century and many supply chain practices are still behind the times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

FabFitFun Warehouse in Chino, CA FabFitFun is an interesting retailer with a complex supply chain. They have been successful enough with their fulfillment capabilities that they are no longer just a direct-to-consumer retailer; they are also a third-party logistics provider. It’s just so exciting,” McKellar says. “A

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. In the automotive sector, manufacturers are simultaneously reducing inventory costs and delivery times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

That supply planning application needs to be integrated into an array of internal systems ERP, transportation management, warehouse management, procurement, and other applications. Who is InterSystems? InterSystems is a rapidly growing global private company with nearly 2,000 employees and revenues of over $1 billion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

Is this just standard PR hype? This reflects manufacturers’ difficulty in synching the plans finalized in an integrated business planning executive meeting with what the shop floor is capable of manufacturing in the short-term time planning horizon. The same disconnect can happen in the warehouse and in transportation.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It’s time to challenge your existing beliefs about inventory management and recognize how ineffective rebalancing can significantly impact your bottom line. The Real Definition of Inventory Rebalancing First, let’s set the record straight: inventory rebalancing isn’t just a fancy term for moving stock around.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The survey is structured to determine the relative importance of competing objectives, how the importance has changed over time and why; the degree to which certain external factors (resource shortages, cost inflation, etc.) However, supply chain resilience is more than just a concept to practitioners.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 24, 2025

These inefficiencies inflate costs and slow response times when customer needs change. Manufacturers are shifting to on-demand production to align output with real-time demand. By producing only whats needed, when its needed, they eliminate the burden of forecasting errors and reduce warehouse dependency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2025

It is a practical tool, actively helping fleets reduce idle time, improve safety, and gain real-time situational awareness across the supply chain. V2X enables vehicles to “talk” to their surroundings through real-time wireless communication. What Is V2X and Why Should Logistics Teams Care?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2022

Time-consuming manual processes to report on ESG metrics. From product design, sourcing and operations planning, to manufacturing, logistics and warehousing, there are many opportunities for improved efficiency at each stage of the process. But cloud applications are just the start. Start with your supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

My client attempted to have a supply chain discussion to improve flow, and his executive group just did not get it. I was promoted to run the warehouse, and at the time, I had no experience in distribution, but was asked to run the largest distribution center in the system. A warehouse is the tip of the spear for dysfunction.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 17, 2025

They must track inventory, orders and returns in real time, at all times. In the case of product returns which amounted to a staggering $890 billion in 2024 the warehouse needs to move with lightning speed and precision to capture the resale opportunity and minimize waste. trillion in 2024 alone.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2025

But, how do we think about the decision roles of not just humans but also machines? The Need for Speed When you talk to supply chain planning software suppliers, they identify similar trends. However, Alex Pradhan, the global product strategy leader at John Galt Solutions, talks differently about what her company sees in the market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 24, 2024

Robotic Process Automation Deployment According to the APQC data, organizations are exploring Robotic Process Automation across a number of supply chain areas, including supply chain planning, sourcing and procurement, logistics and warehousing, and manufacturing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

As logistics networks become increasingly complex, the volume of real-time data generated by devices, equipment, vehicles, and facilities is growing rapidly. Even with local processing, network variability, particularly in remote warehouses, ports, and along mobile routes, can still cause small but impactful delays.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

The good news is that these peaks come at about the same time every year and can therefore be easily planned for. The hype usually revolves around just one item and can easily be managed by a modern logistics system. Imagine a warehouse operating around the clock, 360 days a year. Peaks are all so different.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

As pink slips ripple through Silicon Valley to over 120,000 workers following a time of overexuberant hiring, it is a time for both sadness and reflection. The end of this chapter in Big Tech occurs, it is time for a reality check. trillion in 2019 — more than six times the size of its B2C equivalent. B write-off.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2024

Locus Robotics Has Introduced a new Robot with a Heavier Payload Historically, a warehouse management system used slotting and waving functionality to optimize the work in a distribution center. Waving intelligently groups the tasks that need to be completed to reduce associate travel times and improve throughput.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

” Accurate transit time predictions have become more crucial than ever given customer demands and expectations, the cost impacts of late shipments, and dynamic nature of today’s supply chains. Shippers and logistics service providers are faced with multiple challenges when trying to determine accurate shipment transit time estimates.

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 31, 2025

Home March 31, 2025 Luxury Fashion and the Need for Flexible Warehouse Automation Melissa Valentine , Vice President, Sales (North America) Luxury fashion has long been defined by exclusivity, craftsmanship, and high-touch customer experiences. The industrys shifting dynamics are reflected in recent reports from Bain and McKinsey.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The technology is ready to go; now is the time to use it.”[1] But its a bit like unpacking a box of Christmas lights to find theyre hopelessly tangled it will take time to sort out the mess, but the results will be illuminating.”[3] The answer: One bite at a time, of course! Quite the opposite.

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Locus Robotics

MAY 7, 2025

Home May 07, 2025 Maximizing Warehouse Productivity with Flexible Automation Zavo Gabriel , Product Marketing Manager Fulfillment today is full of uncertainty. On a recent SupplyChainBrain webinar , I spoke with Bob Bowman about why flexibility is a survival strategy for warehouses. Those assumptions no longer hold.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. We conducted ARC Advisory Group’s survey at the same time as the Conference Board updated its C-Suite Outlook for 2023.

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