Third-party logistics (3PL) organizations are facing a more challenging operating environment. The sheer number of orders is increasing rapidly — and more of them consist of small quantities that threaten to overwhelm information processing systems.

DHL plans on opening five more warehouse facilities in the U.S. by the end of 2024 to meet its customers' life sciences and healthcare needs.

Seth Patin, founder and chief executive officer of LogistiVIEW, previews the company's new FlowEP Warehouse Execution System, to be showcased at Modex 2024 in Atlanta March 11-14.

The headlines about shortages and disruptions in healthcare supply chains aren’t going away anytime soon. The industry needs help.

Recent years have brought on a host of new challenges for manufacturing companies. Chief among these are a changing labor market, higher customer expectations, the rapid growth of e-commerce and strained capacity. For many companies, robotic picking, sorting and packing has emerged as a groundbreaking solution to their problems.

Robotics and technology companies have doubled down on development of applications to support the supply chain, especially in the warehouse. 

Market volatility has eased somewhat relative to levels seen in the past three years, but the operational demands and customer expectations from an acceleration of omnichannel e-commerce – now around 20% of retail shipments and growing at ~10% annually – are here to stay.

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Under the deal, Fujitsu will provide Japanese businesses with its warehouse management system (WMS) services while YE Digital will offer its MMLogiStation warehouse automation tool to Japanese logistics companies.