An executive summary of a Locus Robotics and SupplyChainBrain webinar about the state of automation in the warehouse, with Neil Bentley, Locus’s senior director of product development.

Emmanuel Langlois, vice president sales with Generix Group, and Jean-Martin Roux, president of Onomatic, discuss the changes in warehouse management systems that we can expect to see in the next five years.

Generix Group, a global leader in collaborative SaaS software solutions for the Supply Chain, is driving TLS Emblem's foray into e-commerce with the implementation of SOLOCHAIN Warehouse Management System (WMS).

The top business priorities for supply chain organizations over the next two years are increasing productivity and efficiency (29%) as well as improving resiliency, continuity, risk and security (29%).

With the rapid adoption of automation and robotics, then, it’s important to explore how advanced technology can improve worker safety.

What’s the right approach — and the wrong one — to robot safety in the warehouse? 

Contrary to popular belief, automation doesn't spell an end to the presence of humans in manufacturing and distribution environments, according to Mark Juelich, president of Industrial Procurement Services.

Highly seasonal demand across its network of warehouses left  this large e-commerce provider with a choice: Invest in a system that operates under capacity for most of the year, or one that can’t meet the peak volume. 

In automated cold-storage warehouses, WMS, automated receiving technologies, computer vision systems, algorithms, visibility platforms and machine learning capabilities all work in tandem to create end-to-end process automation.

The new campus, which will allow ABB to expand its production capacity by 50%, is scheduled to be opened in late 2026.