If retailers and manufacturers don’t have the proper contractual restraints in place to prevent their liquidators — and the liquidators’ resellers — from selling directly to consumers online, they’re setting themselves up for significant sales losses and lower margins.

Labor shortage is quickly becoming a major issue for companies across the globe. Automation and technology can help bridge the gaps between output needs during the peaks and valleys of business.

2023 will continue to present supply chain organizations with an imperative to analyze, predict and resolve issues before they arise.

Warehouse automation is gaining traction among operators of manual distribution and fulfillment centers amid demand pressures, customer expectations driving e-commerce, workforce churn and shortages, and an emerging mix of larger and more complex facilities catering to last-mile delivery.

All supply chains — including the service spares supply chain — have been transformed by the ripple effects of the past few years’ catastrophic events.

Person-to-goods (P2G) and goods-to-person (G2P) are the two major approaches for order picking automation technology.

The legendary “Amazon effect” has undoubtedly had the most significant influence on logistics activities in the last decade.

How do you scale operations up and down without risking inefficiencies that threaten the very core of your business? An important part of the answer lies in the deployment of smart technology. 

Shipment and inventory visibility repeatedly tops the list of must-haves in surveys as freight shippers scramble to build resilience and agility into their supply chains.

The administration of cell and gene therapies has grown in recent years thanks to cost reductions, to the benefit of many more patients. The supply chain for cell and gene therapies will continue to escalate, requiring the technology to be available at scale.