Jeff Hedges, president of OPEX Material Handling, outlines some of the major challenges confronting e-commerce providers, including rising costs, tax issues and global regulation.

Today's lift trucks yield a treasure trove of information about equipment status and productivity. Lynda Stephens, senior application engineer with EnerSys, discusses how to get the most from it.

The cloud has come to voice, and virtually every other aspect of material-handling within the supply chain. Keith Phillips, president and chief executive officer of Voxware, relates the evolution of the ground-breaking technology.

In the world of enterprise management software, logistics and transportation has often been seen as a very isolated island. Those of us on the inside know that the logistics world continues to be just as fragmented and disconnected as it was 20 or 30 years ago. Logistics providers operate blindly within the supply chain, and have little idea of what is happening upstream or downstream. It's a fundamental problem that is especially ripe for disruption. Get ready, because major change is on the horizon.

Transzap Inc. has released Spendworks Complete, a new application for end-to-end invoice processing.

John Hayes, Vice President of U.S. Sales and Marketing with Seegrid, traces the history of robotics in distribution environments, and tells why robots don't automatically lead to a loss of jobs.

Tipalti, an online provider of global payment services, has expanded its automated system to support global automated clearing house (ACH) payments to the 32 countries participating in the Single Euro Payments Area.