Posts by Jarvis

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…

The Visibility Paradox: Why More Data Isn’t Solving the Problem Over the past decade, the supply chain industry has invested billions in visibility platforms, control towers, and real-time dashboards. The promise was compelling: see everything, know everything, decide faster. The reality? Most supply chain leaders still struggle to make timely decisions when it matters most.…

If you’ve been in supply chain technology for more than a few years, you’ve heard the pitch before: computer vision will revolutionize your warehouse. Cameras will catch every error. AI will see what humans miss. The future is now. And then… not much happened. Pilots stalled. ROI never materialized. The technology went back on the…

The AI hype machine is running at full throttle. Every vendor promises transformative results. Every conference showcases impressive demos. And every executive wonders why their company isn’t already using AI to revolutionize operations. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Your AI systems aren’t ready. And neither is most of the supply chain industry. Before you dismiss this…

What these platforms actually deliver—and what they don’t If you’ve attended a supply chain conference or browsed vendor websites recently, you’ve seen the term everywhere: Control Tower. The pitch is compelling—a single pane of glass providing end-to-end visibility across your entire supply chain, powered by AI, delivering predictive insights that let you get ahead of…