Stage Stores, which operates 880 small-town department stores under such names as Beall's and Peebles, has learned the value of having products delivered floor ready. Tim Duvic, vice president of distribution, explains how the company educates its suppliers on packaging and preparing orders for fast processing on receipt.

Rich Thompson, managing director with Jones Lang LaSalle, wonders whether retailers are prepared to satisfy the growth in demand that comes with a recovering economy and rising freight rates.

Drone delivery, anyone? We're not completely there yet, but while we wait for products to fall from the sky, businesses need to maintain a competitive edge by outsourcing fulfillment to the right provider.

Swisslog Healthcare Solutions, a provider of systems for hospital automation, has launched the Nexus System Control Software for TransLogic Pneumatic Tube Systems (PTS).

Curt Bimschleger, senior vice president of retail logistics with Genco, offers some observations on how the omnichannel is transforming the retail sector.

HighJump Software has entered into a partnership with MP Objects of the Netherlands, extending its transportation-management system (TMS) and warehouse-management system (WMS) to customers outside the U.S.

Jim Barnes, president and chief executive officer of enVista Corp., discusses how retailers and distributors are addressing the unique challenges posed by the emergence of the omnichannel.