DHL eCommerce Solutions’ installation of two robotic sorting systems at an Atlanta distribution center has boosted sortation throughput and labor efficiency over the past year.

Since at least last summer, Amazon has quietly been recruiting mom-and-pop shops in rural America to join an experimental delivery program. The company is paying participating small businesses a per-package fee to deliver Amazon orders within a 10-mile radius to their neighbors’ homes in states like Nebraska, Mississippi, and Alabama.

As retailers continue to rely on their main locations to fill digital demand, many are trying to boost efficiency and quality through enhanced training, technology and store layouts.

The unprecedented boom in logistics warehousing demand is now about a decade old. During most of the past 10 years, it was a safe bet that the aging of the industrial warehouse stock wasn’t considered a high priority

A new smoothie-swinging robot is bringing the Metreon into the Age of Ultron, but oddly, the Stepford smoothie robot asks to be tipped for its services.

Shopify President Harley Finkelstein joins Yahoo Finance Live to break down the company's Q1 earnings miss, its purchase of fulfillment center distributors like Deliverr, and the outlook of retail and digital sales.

Orchestrating fleets of thousands of bots in the AWS Cloud with guaranteed ultra-low latency is no small feat. Ocado’s Chief of Advanced Technology, Alex Harvey, spoke with Ronald van Loon at the AWS Summit about how to achieved this.

Three meaningful warehousing sector trends are driving investments in new technologies: The ongoing labor crunch; a renewed mandate for more operational flexibility; and global initiatives for digital transformation.

The British Library’s National Newspaper Building in Boston Spa, UK, holds millions of pages from newspapers spanning centuries. Get a rare chance to go inside the void to see the robot cranes in action and find out about the measures in place to protect the history within.

Actuator: Amazon, community clusters, banana fingers and a more serious Spot

To understand why inflation is running so hot, look to Canada’s West Coast. Vancouver, the home of one of North America’s busiest ports, is bursting at the seams.

The pandemic has changed the conversation. Now is the time to rethink long-standing practices for adoption of a same-day delivery strategy best suited to your operations.

Einride, a Swedish developer of autonomous vehicle technology that recently expanded into the US market, has launched a program designed to facilitate more sustainable transportation and shipping based on its “Pod” solutions.

Supply variability is the new normal. Variability is the highest in the history of supply chain management. In the last two years, traditional processes and technologies failed in the face of the challenge requiring greater dependency on ad-hoc manual processes.

Executives now are asking: “How exposed is our global supply chain network? Which critical sites have the highest exposure in terms of revenue impact? Which types of events could potentially affect each site? Are appropriate business continuity plans in place to protect our operations?”

Burgeoning supermarket chain showcases Amazon’s flair for innovation — and has traditional grocers watching closely

Long before concepts like dark stores, e-commerce and micro-fulfillment became top of mind for the U.S. supermarket industry, a technology startup in China developed plans to deliver groceries directly to online customers from compact urban warehouses close to where people live.

An online index of nearly a thousand jobs may useful in cluing in folks to the automation risk their field of employment faces.

It may look like a nightmare sequence from a science fiction film, but a network of fast-working robots is now hard at work in south-east London.