Many e-commerce operations constructed additional warehouses to accommodate demand at the height of the pandemic. Once built, however, operators faced a new challenge: a labor shortage that 57% of ...

My colleague from ARC Advisory Group, Clint Reiser, in partnership with DC Velocity magazine (see DC Velocity Infographic), recently completed survey-based research on the changing practices, ...

Automation is a powerful tool and comes in many shapes and forms. In the warehouse, automation is generally used to make gains upon existing processes by improving efficiency, speed, reliability, ...

It’s a nightmare scenario: a company invests more than $150 million in warehouse automation, only to see the project fail. Too many ambitious projects launched by forward-looking warehouses are ...

At an Amazon warehouse in Louisiana, Robin lifts and sorts packages. Hercules moves pods full of goods. Sequoia retrieves items to pick and pack for online orders. These aren’t the names of Amazon ...

Warehouse automation is no longer a differentiator—it is a prerequisite for operating at scale. Rising labor costs, volatile demand patterns, tighter delivery expectations, and increasing SKU ...

Warehouse automation has grown rapidly in recent years, spurred by labor shortages, supply-chain disruptions and the growth of direct-to-consumer e-commerce purchasing. But, despite the obvious need ...

This is an excerpt of the original article. It was written for the May-Jun 2024 edition of Supply Chain Management Review. The full article is available to current subscribers. In each issue I try to ...