In an e-commerce age when it is more important than ever to optimize parcel shipping operations, the question is clear: Is it possible to cut expensive consulting engagements that provide carrier contract analysis and negotiation services?

Disruption has become a constant. And as waves of disruption continue to crash down on supply chains, supply chain risk management has never been more important.

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.

As Caraway Home broadens the channels through which it sells, it confronts new challenges in ensuring visibility and efficient order fulfillment, says Mark Riskowitz, vice president of operations.

In this epilogue to ProMat 2023, industry experts distill, discuss and deconstruct the latest in warehouse technology trends as seen at ProMat.

Japan faces a global slowdown, the soaring cost of raw materials and calls for firms to raise wages for their workers to help ease a cost-of-living crisis.

With rising consumer expectations, today’s global supply chains need real-time data visibility to manage operations effectively.

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

The sorting centers are designed to further Target’s strategy of using its stores to handle online orders as it vies with Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. for sales.

With more shoppers buying on credit and returning goods to stores, the better-than-expected sales at Christmas may not have been as meaningful as some observers hoped.