Shari Christofferson, president of Connect, talks about the importance of having a connected network in warehousing and distribution, and the cost of failing to maintain one.

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.

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.

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 best approach to introducing robots to the warehouse is to truly understand your workflow needs, says Brian Gaunt, senior director of accelerated digitalization at DHL Supply Chain.

There’s still much to be done to enable operators to take full advantage of the immense amounts of data being collected at every moment of the day within distribution centers.

The growing dominance of the omnichannel supply chain requires a more flexible and efficient approach to order picking.

Following are the top challenges that warehouses and distribution centers face in the e-commerce and retail sector.

lobal labor-productivity growth in construction has averaged just 1% per year over the past two decades, compared with growth of 2.8% for the total world economy.