The online retailer also said it planned to open two new centers, creating 2,500 jobs over the next three years.

The pull-back comes as retailers rein back their inventory replenishment efforts in an increasingly uncertain economy.

Multinode fulfillment is a natural outgrowth of the trend toward omnichannel retailing. David Glick, chief technology officer with Flexe, explains the term and its benefits to retailers and brands.

What is a "smart" warehouse? And is it here already, or a vision of the future? Dan Gilmore, chief marketing officer of Softeon, has answers.

In a time of labor shortages in the warehouse, conveyor automation itself can negatively impact throughput, says Todd Stewart, industry manager for Flexco.

The bigger a manufacturer, retailer or distributor gets, the more it needs to augment its network of warehouses.

Retailers must expand their models to include the unexpected or fall victim to the same problems that blindsided them this year. 

A case study about how Waytek Wire implemented an innovative order-fulfillment system from FastFetch, with Waytek owner and chief operating officer Mike Larson, and FastFetch president and founder Jack Peck.

With all the pressures of the usual end-of-year scramble, and the need to be planning now for 2023, it might seem like the worst possible time to overhaul the management of forklift fleets.

As variability has ramped up in the warehouse, a flexible workforce has become a necessity, says Hisham Khaki, president of HapiGig.