Technology

The tipping point has finally arrived as more SCM vendors put their time, energy and effort into Cloud-based software platforms instead of their on-premise solutions. Here’s how shippers are responding to the shift.

Uber Freight describes the shipper platform as a simple intuitive dashboard geared towards helping small businesses manage logistics tasks via a singular interface. These tasks include: finding reliable capacity, budgeting for shipping costs, tracking and ensuring their goods are delivered on-time and with care.

Robotics has gained rapid traction in the last few years of economic growth and low unemployment, as companies began implementing as a means of increasing productivity and coping with the labor crunch. Now the COVID-19 disruption has changed the unemployment picture, but vendors still see a pressing need for innovation.

This month, the Modern editorial staff has put together our 8th-annual Technology & Innovation Issue.

In this session, we’ll explain why your digital twin needs to be a sandbox extension of your planning & operations platform – one that applies different statistical, machine learning, and AI algorithms along with various workflow options to solve problems.

Fulfillment operators need to scale quickly and cost-effectively to meet growing demand—yet finding and retaining quality warehouse personnel is getting more difficult and seasonal hires take time to train; especially if you’re trying to leverage automation technologies.

Fulfillment operators need to scale quickly and cost-effectively to meet growing demand—yet finding and retaining quality warehouse personnel is getting more difficult and seasonal hires take time to train; especially if you’re trying to leverage automation technologies.

Amazon.com Inc has agreed to pay over $1 billion to buy self-driving startup Zoox Inc, a move that will expand the e-commerce giant's reach in autonomous-vehicle transportation technology.

As the economy begins to recover, distribution center and warehouse operators will be challenged with not just operating efficiently, but safely - emerging technologies may help in the effort.

SAP Ariba Discovery allows any buyer to post immediate sourcing needs and to enable any of the four million suppliers on the Ariba Network to respond with their ability to deliver the goods and services required.

As companies recover from COVID-19-related supply chain disruptions, logistics managers are applying key learnings and revising their fulfillment strategies accordingly.

Innovator of data capture solutions recognized for potential to impact supply chains globally.

MHS, a single-source provider of material handling automation and software solutions, announces its expanded portfolio of autonomous mobile robot (AMR) capabilities.

The companies said that this platform significantly reduces integration time and programming efforts, in order to on-board new automation devices into warehouse facilities, which, in turn, provides shippers with more flexibility in selecting robotics systems geared towards their specific business needs, while leveraging Microsoft Azure IoT and cloud platform services.