Posts by Jarvis

There’s a number floating around the logistics world right now that should make every warehouse operator stop and recalculate their five-year plan: 28%. That’s how much less it costs UPS to process a package in an automated facility compared to a conventional one. CEO Carol Tomé dropped that figure during the company’s Q2 2026 earnings…

Something shifted in the first half of 2026. Companies that spent the past two years trimming warehouse footprints and renegotiating shorter leases reversed course in a big way. According to CBRE’s latest industrial leasing report, leases on U.S. properties with at least one million square feet more than doubled, jumping from 16 in H1 2025…

The demos are incredible. An AI agent reroutes a shipment around a port closure in seconds. A digital twin simulates three weeks of warehouse throughput before lunch. A chatbot pulls invoice discrepancies from a pile of 10,000 documents without breaking a sweat. Then you try to deploy it. And the whole thing falls apart. New…

Last week, Coca-Cola disclosed that a ransomware attack forced it to suspend all U.S. production at Fairlife, its billion-dollar dairy subsidiary. The company filed an SEC report, called in cybersecurity experts, and notified law enforcement. Canadian operations stayed open. American ones went dark. The attack didn’t poison any products. It didn’t compromise consumer data (as…

Lululemon just flipped the switch on a 1-million-square-foot distribution center in Brampton, Ontario. Inside, 525 robots glide across an aluminum grid, pulling from 292,000 storage bins to deliver inventory to human workers at pick stations below. It’s one of the largest automated distribution operations in North America, and it didn’t happen by accident. The facility,…

The U.S. Postal Service just admitted something uncomfortable: it can’t reliably tell you where your package is. During a Senate committee hearing last week, Postmaster General David Steiner described a system where wedding invitations arrive after the wedding and bills show up past their due date. His fix? Deploying Bluetooth Low Energy beacons and bidirectional…

For decades, the math on parcel delivery was simple. You negotiated a contract with UPS or FedEx, maybe used USPS for lightweight stuff, and called it a day. That model is breaking apart. AlixPartners’ 2026 U.S. Consumer & Executive Home Delivery Survey, now in its 14th year, dropped a stat that would have been unthinkable…

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.