Yale Lift Truck Technologies, formerly Yale, showed off its latest tech at the 2023 ProMat supply chain conference in Chicago.
Amazon may face an Federal Trade Commission antitrust lawsuit in the coming months, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Front-line Amazon workers learned this week that the marketplace is investing $1 billion for pay hikes over the next year.
Lucas Systems survey finds that 75% want technology to assist them
The Department of Labor and federal prosecutors in New York are investigating safety concerns at Amazon warehouses.
With e-commerce growth slowing, did Amazon bite off more than it could chew?
Amazon this week unveiled Proteus, its first “fully autonomous” mobile warehouse robot.
Self-evaluation, continual improvement among keys to keeping employees happy and productive
Finding skilled associates for your distribution center is challenging, so why not leave it to the professionals?
Staffing remains a challenge for warehouse operators, but many are still not meeting the top demand of workers: schedule flexibility.
Carriers have overcome notable cost inflation and disruption to post better-than-expected results so far in the third-quarter earnings season.
Shares of J.B. Hunt Transport Services jumped 10% Friday as the company navigated supply chain challenges during the third quarter to beat analysts’ forecasts.
Jobs Report: Trucking increases and warehouse employment soars
Warehouse automation continues to accelerate as consumer appetite for e-commerce grows, and that is placing robotics companies in the spotlight.
Brian Devine, senior vice president at ProLogistix, discusses the future of warehouse labor.
Warehouse operations have also been affected by COVID-19. Here are some suggestions that may help increase efficiency of operations.
“Without Opendock during the COVID-19 volume surge, it would have been a catastrophic failure,” said Lawrence Dillworth of Owens & Minor, a major medical supplier.
Brian Aoaeh writes about workplace injuries and workplace safety in the ecommerce age…
Unpredictable demand, expectations of a high service level, and labor scarcity are the most significant challenges that face logistics today, and it is crucial for warehouses to face up to it by having the right mix of automation and human resources on its floor.
Flexible automation in warehouses is about maintaining floor robots that are mobile, scalable based on demand volatility, and equipped to collaborate with humans for optimizing operations.
Plus One Robotics helps warehousing robots get scene perception, allowing them to identify and pick parcels from a cluttered pile.
Labor needs will rule the roost for industrial site selection.
