The shift toward e-commerce has prompted warehousing operations to embrace multi-channel fulfillment as a matter of urgency. While this presents certain challenges, there are also new opportunities to achieve a competitive edge.

The pandemic economy permanently raised the bar for global supply chains, demanding unprecedented speed, scale and flexibility.

Combining the skills of employees and robots in intelligent ways creates opportunities for efficiency in warehouse and distribution center operations, and improves working conditions across the board.

The spending costs of IT industries jumped in 2020 more than 4% as the global workforce shifted to remote work order overnight.

Surging e-commerce is generating more package deliveries than giant couriers can handle, but the logjam is spawning startups with new ways of speeding deliveries.