Posts by Jarvis

For years, the warehouse automation playbook was straightforward: take an existing facility, bolt on some conveyors, add a few AGVs, and call it modernization. That approach is dying. In its place, a different strategy is emerging from the biggest names in consumer goods and retail, and it involves tearing up the blueprint entirely. In the…

Somewhere in a suburb outside Dallas, a Wing drone drops a bag of groceries onto a front porch. The whole thing takes about 30 minutes from order to delivery. No driver. No van. No traffic. And it’s the millionth time Walmart has pulled this off. That milestone, announced during Walmart’s Q1 2027 earnings call in…

Amazon opened its LTL freight network to all businesses on June 10, 2026. We break down what it means for shippers, carriers, and supply chain strategy.

You’ve got the AMRs. You’ve got the conveyors. Maybe an AS/RS system that cost seven figures and took nine months to install. Your picking stations are automated, your sorters are humming, and your inbound dock has a robotic depalletizer that can handle 30 cases a minute. So why does your warehouse still feel like it’s…

You can buy a warehouse robot in 2026 the way you buy a forklift. Pick a vendor, sign a contract, wait for delivery. The hardware is mature. AMRs navigate aisles. Cobots pick items off shelves. Autonomous forklifts unload trailers without a driver. The physical automation is, frankly, the easy part. The hard part? Getting those…

Manhattan Associates unveiled Solution Design Studio, Marketplace, and 9 production AI agents at Momentum 2026. Here’s what it means for supply chain teams.

Under Armour just finished killing off a quarter of its products. Not because they were defective. Not because of a recall. Because the company decided that having fewer things to sell would actually make it more money. CEO Kevin Plank confirmed during the company’s May 12 earnings call that Under Armour has hit its goal…

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…