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Warehouse and distribution center (DC) leaders are boosting their employee engagement strategies as recruiting and retention remains a leading industry challenge. Gartner research released today shows that gamification tools are at the…
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Retail companies are increasing their investment in artificial intelligence (AI) as the technology has evolved quickly over the past 12 months and is now delivering real proof points for the first time, two speakers from the consulting…
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To hear the famed Alabama football coach Nick Saban tell it, one of the biggest challenges that an individual or a team can face is not the failure that delivers disappointment, but the success that encourages complacency, Saban told…
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With its distribution center lease set to expire and facing rising West Coast leasing costs, women’s fashion brand Cabi Clothing (cabi) embarked on a DC relocation journey in early 2024 that yielded big results in short order. In just…
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What keeps most supply chain managers up at night is the fear of making wrong decisions. Decisions would be easy if we knew the outcomes were guaranteed. It’s the unknown that is hard. What if the worst happens?We certainly have had a…
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Despite a background of geopolitical strife and swiftly shifting tariffs, consumer spending stayed strong in the 2025 holiday season, but that bottom-line total obscured some fundamental shifts in American retail patterns, according to…
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PlusAI, the California-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI) software for autonomous trucks, says that improvements to its platform over the past year have kept it on track to launch factory-built commercial autonomous trucks in…
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The labor-intensive job of picking is one of the most critical roles in the warehouse in an era when companies live and die by their ability to get orders out the door quickly and accurately. This is true in B-to-B (business-to-business)…
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Supply chain technology vendor Zebra Technologies is looking for a potential buyer of its robotics arm, which was expanded when it acquired the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) maker Fetch Robotics in 2021 for some $300 million.At the time…
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Makers of humanoid robots are targeting logistics, specifically the warehouse, as they continue a steady march to integrate their human-looking machines into today’s increasingly automated workplaces. That’s because research shows that…
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