Working from home, employees may be wasting time and money mailing contracts to customers, sending samples to prospects or managing even routine shipments — while businesses quickly lose enterprise visibility. A cloud-based multi-carrier management solution can help maintain centralized control.

Robots present advantages that, combined with human brain and brawn, make for optimum operations that improve the lives of workers, too.

The coronavirus pandemic has made it clear that humans make supply chains vulnerable to failure. Greater reliance on automated solutions will be a given from here on out.

Achieving success as a team leader calls for balancing multiple qualities, which can vary according to personality, generation, and company size and maturity, according to Hilary Grosskopf, founder of Awake Leadership Solutions.