Huge growth in sales led to the need to optimize inventory, fulfillment and warehouse operations at Ecentria, say Michael Wohlwend, managing principal of Alpine Supply Chain Solutions, and Andrew Mironov, head of operations at Ecentria.

"Flexibility" can be a vague term when it comes to logistics and distribution operations, explains Andy Williams, executive vice president of sales for North America with Exotec.

Michael Marcum, general manager of autonomous vehicles at Bastian Solutions, discusses the launch of the company's new automated guided forklift.

Getting inventory closer to the end user saves money on transportation and is much more eco-friendly, says Corey Apirian, chief executive officer of Davinci Micro Fulfillment.

If any technology is making up for the labor shortage and boosting productivity in the warehouse, it's robotics, says Jake Heldenberg, head of solution design, warehousing, North America, for Vanderlande.

Light industrial business sector leaders feel more confident about labor supplies in 2023 according to Instawork's “State of Warehouse Labor Report.”

A technology refresh, while yielding big benefits to the warehouse, can also be highly disruptive to day-to-day operations.

The impact of underlying demand takes time to show up in warehousing, because of industrial real estate’s long lead times for planning and multiyear leases.

Warehouse workers are getting harder to find, hire and retain. What do they really want?