Technology

Economic downturns are a testing ground for innovation, and history proves that disruptive technology thrives in the face of adversity.

As we head into 2024, top 10 supply chain lists feature the usual suspects: technology, visibility, AI. But a focus on talent is needed to ensure the investments in these more high-profile areas provide value.

Volatility is costly and disruptive to operations. Consumer packaged goods supply chains face volatile transportation flows due mostly to variations in consumer behavior, but technology can help smooth those flows.

One of the fastest growing distributors of products for industrial applications, including hydraulics and pneumatics, Motion Flow & Control Products (MFCP) helps leading companies in numerous industries achieve new heights. Now MFCP is using the valuable data and powerful analytics in Reveel’s Shipping Intelligence platform solution to transform the fulfillment and inventory operations for its e-commerce site and more than 60 brick-and-mortar stores.

The leading provider of liquid yeast, and other fermentation products and expertise that leading brewers, distillers and wine makers need, knew it wanted to break from the vicious cycle of parcel consulting fees. The transition to Reveel’s platform delivered far more than savings.

There are six ingredients for delivering innovation from invention that serve as a compass for organizations navigating this dynamic market and striving to maximize return on innovation investment. EY’s Brian Legan explains.

In this episode, Paul Travers, the President and CEO of Vuzix, joined In Transit host Vishnu Rajamanickam to discuss how AR glasses can help streamline and improve warehouse operational efficiency.

Packsize's cloud-based software platform provides an optimal solution for all your packaging requirements.

GXO Logistics will pilot Digit, a human-centric robot from Agility Robotics, in warehouse operations at a SPANX facility in Georgia.

The potential for improving health care delivery systems through automation is vast, however, industry leaders must seize the benefits, manage critical risks and skillfully navigate difficult dilemmas in order to truly take advantage of it.

Complex digital supply chains spanning multiple countries and continents offer invaluable flexibility and cost efficiencies, but also growing cybersecurity risks.

Surveys by Gartner and McKinsey both come to a sobering reality for the future of procurement: the talent pipeline is not being prepared to meet the future demands of the job.

President Joe Biden’s attempt to secure supply chains will depend on agency, bipartisan support, and funding to create any value.

The average company investment in supply chain innovation has nearly doubled in 2023 compared to 2022, according to new research from Catena Solutions.

The push to optimize warehouse operations is most effective when humans continue to work alongside automated tools, a new report from Newcastle Systems has found.

Detecting and reducing supply chain fraud can be done using artificial intelligence and the existing supply chain systems and the familiar transactions that they produce.

There are many benefits to adopting blockchain-backed supply chain solutions, but product and asset tracking is emerging as an early option.

As a maker of paper-based personal products like Cottonelle toilet paper, Scott paper towels and Kleenex, Kimberly-Clark was caught like everyone else by the extraordinary unpredictable spikes in consumer demand when the economy shut down. That was then, this is now.

Optilogic CEO Don Hicks says the way we are thinking about this technology is all wrong

A case study on how dock scheduling took a huge bite out of one food distributor’s detention charges.