John Sarinick, chief sales officer with Beumer Corp., gives us three trends that are driving huge changes in retail order fulfillment, as well as a prediction for the next big thing in the industry.

Bill Leber, director of business development and marketing with Swisslog, reveals the top issues that are driving change within distribution centers, with a particular focus on e-commerce.

Jump Technologies Inc., a vendor of cloud-based software for supply-chain management, has extended its inventory-management tool to the healthcare industry.

Tecsys Inc. has developed the OR Inventory Manager, to aid in the management of supply chains supporting hospital operating rooms.

Vanderlande Industries has launched an automated storage and retrieval system, dubbed Quickstore Microshuttle.

Big data can be a powerful enabler of better business decisions, but getting the right data to the right person in an actionable form presents huge challenges. Richard Sharpe, CEO of Competitive Insights, helps demystify the subject and explains why mastering big data is worth the effort.

Aaron Corcoran, director of logistics with KUKA Systems Corp. North America, discusses how automation is transforming order fulfillment, as companies seek to forge "smarter" supply chains.

A new company called Zenput is offering a mobile application for collecting product data.