Many retailers are adjusting their supply chains to improve efficiency and get goods to customers as quickly as possible.

Seth Patin, chief executive officer and founder of LogistiVIEW, describes the role that technology is playing in improving the way that warehouses respond to customer demand.

Sam’s Club is the latest retailer to invest in new supply-chain facilities as companies seek to deliver packages faster.

Descartes studied 1,000 supply chain and logistics executives in North America and Europe, to determine where they’re placing their innovation emphasis and technology deployment focus.

Many companies are failing to take advantage of the savings to be derived from foreign trade zones because they worry about the complications involved in using them.

The importance of robotics technologies in the warehouse continues to grow, says Drew Bailey, vice president, design engineering, at Geodis.

Another seven deadly sins? These are being committed in the warehouse.

The sorting centers are designed to further Target’s strategy of using its stores to handle online orders as it vies with Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. for sales.

With more shoppers buying on credit and returning goods to stores, the better-than-expected sales at Christmas may not have been as meaningful as some observers hoped. 

AMD and Intel, both based in Santa Clara, California, have competed fiercely for the market for microprocessor chips.