Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2025

This week’s news roundup highlights the transformative impact of AI integration, autonomous robotics, and strategic visions on the future of supply chains, on to the news: How AI Can Help Tame Warehouse Complexity Artificial Intelligence | By Steve Ross • 06/12/2025 The complexity of running the warehouse only continues to increase.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2025

As e-commerce booms, product lifecycles shorten, and labor markets tighten, traditional warehouse management approaches struggle to keep up. Enter the next generation of warehouse optimization – intelligent systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). What are intelligent warehouse systems?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Most supply chain and logistics teams have recognized that the only way to combat todays incredible level of uncertainty is by adopting and applying digital tools. The pace and scope of supply chain disruption are beyond human cognition, manual analysis, and consumer-grade spreadsheet tools.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2025

Suppliers of smart contract development tools: Ethereum Foundation, Polkadot, Hyperledger, OpenZeppelin, Chainlink How Smart Contracts Automate Supply Chains 1. Inventory & Warehouse Management Warehouses and fulfillment centers are prone to stock discrepancies, mismanagement, and delays due to human error.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This layer includes trucks, ships, warehouses, and other physical assets. Data Link Layer: Local Communication This layer focuses on the direct communication between devices within a localized environment, such as a warehouse or a port. For example, coordinating inventory management systems with demand forecasting tools. •

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In today’s fast-paced, hyper-competitive, omni-channel world, warehouses play a critical role in maximizing service and fulfilling the ambitious customer promises that are required today. Warehouses also represent an enormous cost center. Volatile demand means warehouses need to pivot quickly when order volumes change.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2025

It is not a technology on its own, but rather a process that combines planning, execution, and monitoring through integrated tools and workflows. Orchestration tools help keep everyone working from the same information, reducing the chance of miscommunication between departments or suppliers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 5, 2025

Most effective AI implementations today are designed to improve decision-making, reduce routine tasks, and increase operational efficiency through human-in-the-loop systems and decision support tools. Warehouse and transportation staff still manage fulfillment decisions, but AI provides improved visibility and supports faster planning.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2022

Earlier this month, Brian Gaunt, Senior Director of Accelerated Digitization at DHL, provided me with an update on the company’s warehouse digitization journey. DHL Supply Chain has instituted a well-defined process for vetting and adopting warehouse technologies. DHL Innovation Funnel. Autonomous Mobile Robots and AGVs.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Warehouse operators are under constant pressure to do more with less. By replacing manual, paper-based processes with digital tools, you can transform your warehouse into a highly efficient, accurate, and connected operation. Benefits of Mobile-First Operations Switching to a mobile-first warehouse has clear advantages.

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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. Thankfully, he accepted my request.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 18, 2025

From AI-driven inventory systems to robotic pickers, smart warehouse solutions are redefining how goods move. Yet amid these flashy technologies, one unassuming tool continues to play a pivotal role: the hand truck. Often overlooked, hand trucks are essential for enhancing efficiency and reducing injury risk in warehouses of all sizes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2023

The concept of digital twins has emerged as a powerful foundational tool to drive improvements in warehouse productivity and efficiency. In the warehouse context, a digital twin can be created to represent the physical layout, inventory, equipment, and workflows of a warehouse. Physical change (i.e.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Understanding AI Agents At its core, an AI Agent is a reasoning engine capable of understanding context, planning workflows, connecting to external tools and data, and executing actions to achieve a defined goal. Integrate with External Tools and Data: AI Agents can augment their inherent language model capabilities with APIs and tools (e.g.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 29, 2025

During the two-day event, I participated in various sessions covering a range of topics, including Warehouse Management Systems, Labor Management, Agentic AI, and Warehouse Automation. Chaos is now just a part of the plan, and Manhattan Associates has the tools for its customers to remain steadfast.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

AI as a Predictive Tool AI-driven supply chain planning integrates machine learning, real-time data analytics, and external risk monitoring to anticipate disruptions before they materialize. This system allows for dynamic inventory adjustments across warehouses, reducing stockouts and minimizing excess inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2025

Vertex’s deployment of digital tools such as Warehouse Barcoding, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), and advanced scheduling platforms has delivered significant logistics gains cutting over a day from warehouse batch processing and reducing line changeovers from 19 to just 8 days.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Open Sky Group, a global leader in supply chain execution solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Easy Metrics , a premier provider of labor management and warehouse performance management solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Advanced TMS systems should provide tools to visualize these relationships, enabling managers to make strategic choices that comprehensively balance costs, efficiency, and sustainability. Similarly, modern TMS solutions need to proactively quantify sustainability metrics to achieve the multi-faceted goals of todays supply chains.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Logistics equipment plays a vital role in the efficient operation of warehouses and distribution centers. This guide explores a range of logistics equipment, from storage solutions and transportation tools to facility equipment, packing solutions, technology systems, and safety gear. They can handle loads ranging from 1.5 to 5 tonnes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Renewable Energy for Facilities: Warehouses and distribution centers can integrate solar panels and wind turbines to lower energy costs and carbon footprints. Advanced route optimization tools further support these goals. AI-powered warehouse management improves inventory flow and reduces waste.

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RFgen

MAY 28, 2025

Organizing a warehouse in 2025 requires blending time tested practices with modern technology. Warehouse managers and manufacturing businesses face a growing demand for rapid order fulfillment across multiple channels, complex production processes, and an unpredictable supply chain. A logical layout is the backbone of efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Many large organizations have multiple systems for order, warehouse, or transportation management that are barely integrated frequently not at all. Factors like planning tools, inventory management, demand patterns, and innovations in technology contribute to the success or failure of fulfillment optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2025

Key applications include AI-powered demand forecasting to improve inventory accuracy, automated procurement systems to standardize supplier negotiations, robotics to enhance warehouse efficiency, and AI-driven logistics optimization to reduce transportation costs and delays. Warehouse automation is a key part of Walmarts strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

iPaaS provides a comprehensive set of tools for connecting applications. The sessions covered the strategic vision, the underlying technology platform, the specific innovation tools, and the methodology for ensuring customers realize value. Additionally, I asked about the impact of automation on the warehouse floor.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This particular corridor — “Supply Chain Square” — also includes cloud warehousing company Stord, supply chain intelligence company Verusen, as well as the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logis tics Institute. LeadCoverage’s headquarters is located in the beautiful Coda building in Midtown Atlanta, adjacent to the Georgia Tech campus.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 16, 2025

In the warehouse, robots and human workers collaborate through synchronized networks that eliminate latency. Warehouse Efficiency and Workforce Tools Warehouses today are complex environments filled with mobile devices, automated systems, and data-intensive workflows.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2025

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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

From route optimization and predictive analytics to real-time monitoring and emissions tracking, AI tools are being embedded in core logistics workflows. These tools do not aim to replace human decision-makers but instead enhance visibility, enable smarter planning, and improve overall resource utilization.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 19, 2025

Agentic AI has applications across logistics operations, but let’s focus first on its potential to optimize the warehouse. The Blue Yonder Warehouse Ops Agent manages both strategic and tactical considerations with ease. Let’s explore some examples for corporate logistics teams and LSPs.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 24, 2025

By producing only whats needed, when its needed, they eliminate the burden of forecasting errors and reduce warehouse dependency. Powered by digital tools, on-demand strategies offer a cleaner, more responsive path to production. Warehousing becomes a sunk cost. But in volatile markets, they often backfire.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 22, 2025

Behind the scenes, that level of responsiveness depends heavily on one critical factor: warehouse layout. As such, this guide breaks down the essential strategies for designing a warehouse layout that strengthens supply chain agility. An agile warehouse layout enables continuous adaptability.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 23, 2025

For the first time, the decades-long integration problem in supply chain can be leapfrogged using tools as simple as email and Slack, to drive real automation without heavy IT lifts. McCarthy identified a number of logistics inefficiencies while previously working for e-commerce giant Amazon alongside its warehouse operations teams.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2025

Customer adoption stories included Duluth Trading Company, which shared a case study on its $60 million investment in warehouse automation and its use of Manhattan solutions to improve order accuracy, fulfillment speed, and labor efficiency.

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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. Technology integration: Leveraging digital tools to enhance visibility and decision-making.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 3, 2025

To maintain high performance under pressure, food logistics leaders need to adopt modern tools and strategies that enable proactive planning, real-time visibility, and agile execution. This is where advanced demand forecasting tools powered by AI make a difference.

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