KwikShelf is a 12,378.5-square-foot facility located in the Oyingbo Market in Lagos that provides Nigerian businesses with the ability to book on-demand warehousing space.

Creating the warehouse of the future takes vision — literally.

The success of automating at large scale in big warehouses relies on companies being willing and able to rethink their entire supply chains, says Jonas Swarttouw, vice president customer and business development for North America at NewCold.

Robotics and artificial intelligence are changing more than the warehouse, says Ray Roberts, enterprise sales executive at Logiwa. An example: Autonomous vehicles are becoming more active in trucking.

The new program includes incentives for Amazon vendors that are able to cut down on extra layers of packaging they use for shipments.

The 685,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Northern Melbourne will employ a fleet of robots that will fetch items for packing by Amazon staffers.

JD Logistics’ California distribution center maximizes throughput and operational efficiencies with Hai Robotics’ automated storage and retrieval system.

Since robotic automation has reached a level of relative maturity, it’s time to talk about interoperability.

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

The value of core capital goods orders increased by 0.7% during May after a downwardly revised 0.6% gain during April 2023, according to Commerce Department figures.