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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. We define the market as those warehouse automation providers responsible for delivery of the system to the end-user (to eliminate double-counting). Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4 billion in 2019.

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Best Logistics and Supply Chain Conferences to Attend in 2024

Logistics Viewpoints

Many events exist in North America, Europe, and Asia. It’s a “who’s who” in warehouse automation, software, and robotics. Welcome 2024! This year, as with years in the past, there is a broad and deep line-up of supply chain and logistics conferences to attend.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates. Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Building highly automated warehouses takes time.

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Food Waste: The World Can’t Afford It

Enterra Insights

Even if consumers in North America do a better job of reducing food waste, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the food they save will end up where it is needed most. Optimized transportation routing can help reduce or eliminate delays of fresh products to warehouses and retailers. By any metric, the situation looks grim.

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Food Waste: The World Can’t Afford It

Enterra Insights

Even if consumers in North America do a better job of reducing food waste, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the food they save will end up where it is needed most. Optimized transportation routing can help reduce or eliminate delays of fresh products to warehouses and retailers. By any metric, the situation looks grim.

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Reshoring to the US and Europe Accelerating, Now Also Serving CO2 Emission Reduction Objectives

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This trend is a direct result of the fact that centralized DC networks have relatively more transport and less warehousing cost, and thus higher CO2 emissions, while decentralized distribution networks have more warehousing cost but less transport cost and thus a lower CO2 footprint.

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The India supply chain revolution

Supply Chain Movement

billion USD in investments have poured into India for improving warehousing facilities and technology in the hopes that tax reform will lead to larger regional and national warehouses. For example, Singapore has become a prominent hub due to its trade agreements in the region. Investors have been anticipating this step.

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