Thanks to inflation, distribution facilities are faced with a 30% increase in spend categories — and material-handling equipment is no exception.

The warehouse will see great growth in heterogeneous robot fleets over the next decade, says Dwight Klappich, a vice president and fellow at Gartner. The good news is that medium-sized companies can afford the technology.

You’ve chosen a provider of supply chain planning software. How do you ensure that the initiative will succeed?

Warehouse work is boring and numbingly repetitive. So why not turn the whole thing over to machines? 

The new automation solution addresses challenges companies face — labor availability, inventory tracking, operational visibility, peak seasons, safety concerns and space limitations.

Michael Marcum, general manager of autonomous vehicles at Bastian Solutions, discusses the launch of the company's new automated guided forklift.

If any technology is making up for the labor shortage and boosting productivity in the warehouse, it's robotics, says Jake Heldenberg, head of solution design, warehousing, North America, for Vanderlande.

A technology refresh, while yielding big benefits to the warehouse, can also be highly disruptive to day-to-day operations.

If any aspect of supply chain is innovative and ever-changing, it's warehousing. Kaitlin Peterson, senior director of product marketing at Locus Robotics, discusses exciting trends in the industry.