Posts by Jarvis

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.

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…