Trends

The warehouse of the future will be shaped by trends in society, technology, and consumer behavior, this post, along with the Future Perspectives paper, Planning for the Warehouse of the Future, shows you what it could look like.

Real-time audio-visual connection to off-site support helps customers decrease unplanned downtime and reduce service costs.

Royal Boon Edam a global market leader in entry solutions, was looking to shift towards a combined business model of “made to stock” and “assembly to order” - where modules which could be placed into a configuration requested by the customer would be ready for production, this meant the company needed a different logistics approach to fulfilling these orders.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman caught up with Bill Driegert, director of Uber Freight, earlier this month to discuss topics such as the freight transportation market, driver shortage, regulations, and truck capacity.

While last mile carriers receive much of the attention, the traditional modal heavyweights are in charge of connecting the growing web of facilities that enable e-commerce, today, all modes, as well as freight intermediaries, must be poised for growth and flexible enough to keep evolving.

The biggest truckload carrier in the United States is growing by 400 trucks with a tuck-in acquisition that it says will immediately add $100 million in revenue and, just as importantly, 400 drivers to its fleet operations.

Toys ‘R’ Us Inc, the iconic toy retailer, will shutter or sell its stores in the United States and the United Kingdom after failing to find a buyer or reach a deal to restructure billions in debt, putting at risk about 30,000 retail and supply chain jobs.

According to a Credit Suisse analyst, Walmart plans to hit a 40% US online growth target by 2019, and the company may have found a way to relieve its online growth concerns, as well as get it to its targets in the next two years.

Autonomous trucks and cars, delivery drones, on-demand services, logistics is changing, view this infographic and discover how Uber and Amazon are attempting to disrupt this $8.1 trillion market.

SEKO is investing significantly to establish logistics centers and infrastructure needed to meet the growing client demand in the automotive, retail and aerospace industries and will see the opening of the first facility of nearly 10,000 square meters in the State of Mexico.

Buoyed by surging demand, less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers are revving up for 2018, warning that tightening capacity means sharply higher rates in a new era of pricing.

One Network Enterprises new blockchain platform solution mitigates threats in pharmaceutical authentication & serialization, food safety, and recall management.

We know ecommerce is reshaping the logistics landscape, but what are the technologies managers can leverage to meet evolving requirements and shifting operational constraints? We’ve rounded up insights from leading experts to share tools that are available now as well as what’s on the horizon.

Walmart is developing a technology worth $2 billion that inspects fruits and vegetables for defects and can accurately predict the exact date when it will spoil.

The benefits of implementing a control tower on a network are striking, companies that have complex, global supply chains are especially well-suited to multi-party networks, and it is well worth learning about them and examining all your options.

The business-friendly U.S. Chamber of Commerce has often spoken about the need to raise the gas tax, and recently proposed a 5-cent per year increase in the federal gasoline tax, over the course of the next five years.

Walmart is getting bruised in its battle with online leader Amazon, and the world's largest retailer yesterday reported a smaller-than-expected fourth-quarter profit as it wrestled with slower ecommerce sales during the busiest time of the year.

In what would be one of its biggest overseas deals, the U.S. retailer is looking at buying new and existing shares in Flipkart, a direct challenge to Amazon in Asia’s third-largest economy.

XPO Logistics has used rapid-fire acquisitions to grow from a $175 million truck brokerage company in 2012 to a $15.38 billion freight and logistics behemoth, but its European expansion, for now, is being built organically.

Omnichannel disruptor SEKO Logistics says retailers and etailers that react fastest to the shift in consumer behavior and meet customers’ expectations for speed of delivery and returns earn the highest levels of customer loyalty and revenue growth.