Archive for May 2026

USPS drops its DIM weight divisor from 166 to 139 on July 12, 2026. Here’s what that means for your shipping costs and what supply chain teams should do now.

If you run a distribution center, you already know the gate is where chaos begins. Drivers waiting in line. Paper check-ins. Misidentified trailers. Stolen credentials that nobody catches until it’s too late. For years, the gate has been the supply chain’s version of a bouncer with a clipboard, and it hasn’t worked well for a…

Picture this: a 450,000-square-foot warehouse, 40,000 inventory locations, and a team of workers using forklifts and lift trucks to physically count every single pallet. Twice a year. On weekends. During off-shifts. While the building runs 24/7. That was GNC’s reality until recently. The Pittsburgh-based vitamin and supplement retailer operates two major distribution centers, one in…

Something interesting is happening in the industrial real estate market. While headlines focus on tariffs and trade disputes, companies are quietly signing warehouse leases at a pace we haven’t seen since the pandemic-era scramble for space. JLL’s Q1 2026 U.S. Industrial Market Dynamics Report, released last week, tells a clear story: 145 million square feet…

The warehouse robotics industry has been talking about “lights-out” fulfillment for years. Fully autonomous facilities where robots handle everything from picking to putaway, with no human hands touching a single item. It’s been a good sales pitch. It hasn’t been reality. That changed on May 3, when Locus Robotics announced Locus Array, a system the…