Slync.io has secured $24 million of new venture capital funding, highlighting the current trend for supply chain visibility platforms to attract private investors.

A digital twin is a continuously updated, virtual representation of the physical warehouse that tracks assets and inventory, orchestrates staffing and workflow, and tests future scenarios in real time to improve performance and resilience.

There’s still much to be done to enable operators to take full advantage of the immense amounts of data being collected at every moment of the day within distribution centers.

When Microsoft introduced a new version of its Bing search engine that includes the artificial intelligence of a chatbot, company executives knew they were climbing out on a limb.

The digital twin of a warehouse — a real-time, 3D virtual representation of an actual facility down to the space, people, equipment and inventory — lets operators monitor activity, respond instantly to disruption and model future scenarios to improve performance.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, is rapidly impacting how global manufacturers operate.

Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems can help increase storage capacity, improve efficiencies, and reduce operating costs – but not all systems are made the same. 

Traditional approaches to data management are failing to meet new business requirements that demand a combination of real-time connected data, self-service, and a high degree of automation, speed, and intelligence.

Shareholders were rattled after it emerged that a video demo of Google’s rival to the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT chatbot contained a flawed response to a question.