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 ...

MOORESTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OPEX® Corporation, a global leader in Next Generation Automation providing innovative solutions for warehouse, document and mail automation, will showcase its ...

MOORESTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OPEX® Corporation, a global leader in Next Generation Automation providing solutions for warehouse automation will exhibit the company’s innovative warehouse ...

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 ...

Businesses say automation is no longer optional as they grapple with labour constraints, higher fuel prices and growing ...

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 ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] A tight labor market along with advances in warehouse robotics are the top reasons operators are beginning to make larger investments in ...

Traditionally, material handling automation has been associated with rigid installments and operations, such as automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) which require significant investments and ...

Over the past two decades, warehouses that implemented automation have become unrecognizable to their analog counterparts. Visit any highly automated facility and you’ll spot the difference right away ...

Though warehouse management systems (WMS) are widely employed, they are not the ultimate answer to optimized warehouse operations. Moving to the next level — using automated intelligence for real-time ...

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 ...