Warehouse automation is moving quickly from a specialized investment to a core component of modern distribution strategy. Automated storage and retrieval systems, or AS/RS, are increasingly...
The ARC Industry Forum brings together executives, technology suppliers, manufacturers, infrastructure operators, analysts, and other industry leaders to examine how technology is changing industrial operations. But...
Supply chain technology has become extraordinarily good at producing information. Companies can forecast demand, monitor shipments, calculate inventory positions, estimate arrival times, detect supplier risks, optimize...
The first wave of enterprise AI has been organized largely around functions. Sales gets an assistant, procurement gets an agent, transportation gets an optimization layer, warehouse...
Artificial intelligence is usually presented as a technology story. Better models arrive, inference costs decline, applications acquire new capabilities, and companies search for places where AI...
Supply chain leaders face a growing mandate to improve operational performance while navigating rising transportation costs, supply chain disruption, customer expectations, and increasing sustainability scrutiny. Sustainable...
For most of modern business history, intelligence has been expensive. A transportation planner has only so many hours in a day. A procurement analyst can investigate...
For most of the past decade, the story of artificial intelligence in supply chain management has been relatively straightforward: AI helps people do their jobs better....
Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 11%. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) increased 1%. Asia-N. Europe...
In 1986, industrial technology looked very different. Factories were becoming more automated, but they were still dominated by specialized systems built to control specific machines and...