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Top Ecommerce Trends for 2024

Ship Monk

We can’t predict when joggers will go out of style (never, we hope) but we are pretty good at predicting ecommerce trends. After all, we work with entrepreneurs, ecommerce retailers and resellers to pick, pack and ship their merchandise directly to consumers (DTC) and to other businesses (B2B), such as marketplaces or retailers.

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Top 9 Technology Trends for Your Warehouse in 2024

3PL Links

Image source: Wikimedia | Top 9 Technology Trends for Your Warehouse in 2024 Distribution warehouses bear a great deal of responsibility these days because of the direct impact their operations have on the customer experience. Furthermore, the warehouse can carry out procedures more quickly and effectively because of robotic automation.

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The Future of Drone Delivery: Trends, Advantages, and Challenges

MTS Logistics

Drones assist in picking and packing tasks within expansive warehouses, streamlining order fulfillment operations. Achieving fully autonomous drone operations remains elusive, as human intervention is often necessary for handling complex tasks.

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Locus picks 230m units during holiday peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Despite early predictions of lowered volumes, Locus customers once again picked a record number of items using LocusBots during this critical holiday shopping period,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. million units picked per day, representing a 2x increase over 2021. During this same period, LocusBots averaged 3.3

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Covid Forces Retailers to Rethink Order Picking Methods

Logistics Business Magazine

When Covid triggered the e-commerce frenzy, many grocery retail logistics operations had little choice but to rethink their order picking methodologies and, as a result there is a trend away from traditional zone picking towards wave picking B to C strategies, says John Maguire, managing director of Narrow Aisle Ltd.

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Robots Take Center Stage at MODEX 2024

Logistics Viewpoints

MODEX is the leading trade show for supply chain, logistics, and material handling solutions in North America. From autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to collaborative robots (cobots) to industrial robots, robots are transforming the way goods are moved, stored, picked, packed, and shipped.

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Six trends impacting the warehouse automation industry

Logistics Business Magazine

Increased wages and benefits haven’t been enough to reverse the trend. As a result, we’re seeing some developing trends heading into the second half of the year.”. Specifically, Honeywell sees six trends emerging in the warehouse and DC industries. Increasingly aggressive adoption of proven automation technologies.