Getting the warehouse "closer" to the end user is important in supply chains today, says Brian Keiger, director of business development and marketing with Stow Robotics.

This is Arkansas’s first market fulfillment center, and the second to be opened in the United States, after Store #2142 in Salem, New Hampshire.

A case study about how Takt helped CarParts.com achieved visibility into its activities on the warehouse floor, and improve its operations in the process.

Companies of just about any size can take advantage of robotics technology, says Brian Reinhart, vice president of sales, solutions and marketing at HAI Robotics.

Deborah Surrette, chief commercial officer of GreyOrange, talks about the latest trends in robotics and artificial intelligence, and some misconceptions about AI in the supply chain. 

The “democratization” of the digital twin means companies of any size can benefit from the technology, says Guy Courtin, vice president of industry and advanced technology at Tecsys.

Warehouse work is boring and numbingly repetitive. So why not turn the whole thing over to machines? 

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.

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.