Over the past year, prime warehouse rents are up 9.9 percent across the U.S. and up by double-digit amounts in some large urban areas, according to a recent report. E-commerce and Amazon are in no small way responsible for the development.

Keeping online buyers happy is easy. All you have to do is flood the channel with so much inventory that you're never out of stock. And probably go out of business in the process.

Descartes Systems Group has acquired Pixi Software GmbH, a Germany-based provider of applications for e-commerce order fulfillment and warehouse management.

Dematic, a supplier of automated technology, software and services for material handling, has released version 2.1 of Dematic iQ, the vendor's real-time software automation platform for grocery retailers.

Plex Systems, a provider of cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for manufacturing, has launched a new suite of supply-chain planning products.