Kroger plans to use Ocado's robotic picking arms to move groceries off of nearby shelves into bags for online customer orders.

By emphasizing digitalization, predictiveness and autonomy, new levels of success in speed, accuracy, service and revenue can be realized. 

Supply chain leaders are expected to increase investment in technologies over the next two years, but they must prioritize what they want to implement, says Carly West, senior director analyst at Gartner.

Predictive AI models will power smarter inventory distribution, greater pick path efficiency and dynamic order grouping, thereby improving accuracy, reducing costs and accelerating throughput.

Just over 49% of workers voted in favor of unionizing, ending a two-year-long fight where employees held a series of strikes in a push for higher pay.

The Senate committee's investigation found that there were 45 injuries for every 100 workers over the course of Prime Day 2019.

Organizations are struggling to secure the labor, knowledge workers and leaders they need to thrive — and logistics and supply chain-focused businesses have been hit particularly hard.

Each facility will be twice the size of a traditional distribution center, with automated retrieval systems that move them to dense pallets that are then delivered to stores.

The rate of expansion in warehouse automation technology presents ample opportunities as well as new challenges. For stakeholders, that translates into a massive landscape of choice.

Citing more than 59,000 separate violations, state regulators say Amazon failed to disclose quotas to workers at two warehouses near Los Angeles.