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2025’s Top 100 3PLs: How Logistics Giants are Confronting Uncertainty with Seth Clevenger

The Logistics of Logistics

In “2025’s Top 100 3PLs: How Logistics Giants are Confronting Uncertainty”, Joe Lynch and Seth Clevenger , Managing Editor of Features and Multimedia at Transport Topics, discuss the Top 100 logistics companies, 2024 performance, changes to the list, and the trends impacting the industry. is a native of northwest Ohio.

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Achieving Overall Logistics Effectiveness in Warehouse Operations

Logistics Viewpoints

We spoke mostly about achieving optimal warehouse performance. Subsequently, we discussed the broader concept of taking a holistic approach to warehouse performance improvement, including warehouse process design, solution selection, and the role of specific steps in achieving overall success in warehouse operations.

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Warehouse Automation in a Time of Rapid Change

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Markus Schmidt, President of Swisslog Americas , about warehousing in today’s environment of rapid and often unpredictable change. How can warehouse operators make sure they choose technology that will fit their needs well into the future… to be “futureproof.” Labor Shortages Then and Now.

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Hybrid IoT Networks: Integrating Multiple Communication Technologies for Seamless Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

But with the explosion of IoT devices across transportation, warehousing, and distribution, logistics providers face a critical challenge: how to ensure continuous, reliable, and cost-effective communication across diverse physical environments and use cases. Core Components of a Hybrid IoT Network in Logistics 1.

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Supply Chain AI: 25 Current Use Cases (and a Handful of Future Ones)

Logistics Viewpoints

In mathematical terms, optimization is a mixed-integer or linear programming approach to finding the best combination of warehouses, factories, transportation flows, and other supply chain resources under real-world constraints. ML can also be used to generate labor standards for warehouse workers.

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Warehouse Automation: Why Warehouse Workers Need Not Fear Automation or Robotics

GlobalTranz

Across the country, retail employees fear how robots will impact job security and their futures, but the use of warehouse automation and robotics means great things for the future of warehouse workers in retail, as explained by Greg Ip of The Wall Street Journal. Warehousing grew by 401,000 during the same time.

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DHL Supply Chain’s Digital Transformation in the Warehouse

Logistics Viewpoints

Of course, we subsequently share interesting insights in Logistics Viewpoints articles. Earlier this month, Brian Gaunt, Senior Director of Accelerated Digitization at DHL, provided me with an update on the company’s warehouse digitization journey. I find the use cases for robotic arms in the warehouse to be expanding rapidly.