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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

Well, how often do you hear industry analysts say they underestimated a market’s growth rate? Fast forward 5 years, and ARC’s 2019 base-year study estimated the market at $11.9 I will soon be publishing the 2021 base-year study with a five-year forecast through 2026. Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4

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Cracking the Code for AI in the DC

Logistics Viewpoints

There’s a new reason to optimize DC operations, and it’s bigger than the old reasons of productivity and efficiency gains. On top of the insatiable desire for everyone to buy online fueling ecommerce growth in DCs, the high cost and scarcity of warehouse labor is crushing to many DC operators. AI holds the promise for big gains.

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Real-Time Visibility: The Customer Has Spoken

Logistics Viewpoints

I am continuing to work on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2026, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode.

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Navigating the Persistent Truck Driver Shortage

Now, That's Logistics

by the year 2026 in a development that subsequently will influence rates,” Bulk Transporter reports. Currently, it says the industry is “short” about 63,000 drivers—a problem that could accelerate due to several factors. In fact, this could become the “new normal” environment for the next five years.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 31 – January 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Amazon drones have a sense-and-avoid system that will enable operations without visual observers, allowing them to operate at greater distances while reliably avoiding other aircraft, people, pets, and obstacles. Any earn-out is expected to be paid in fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2026. battery manufacturing.

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Top 10 Logistics Trends That Could Impact Supply Chains in 2022

Locus

2021 may not be a year for the logistics industry to cherish, but it was a year filled with a lot of takeaways. Logistics industry was experiencing capacity constraints, driver shortages, sudden upticks in e-commerce demand, new technologies, different fulfillment models , delays, port congestions, canal blockage etc. Rewind to 2021!

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Why Walmart is Paying Truckers Almost $90,000 a Year

Shipchain

So what prompted Walmart to offer truckers almost double what the industry average? With the way the industry stands, there are not enough truckers to meet demand. Truckers that can be flexible to adapt to the way that the industry is evolving are essential. The Trucker Shortage. Simply put, the trucker shortage.