Research Resources – Whitepapers

The resilience and agility that businesses added to their supply chains with automation and optimization software during COVID-19 helped them to survive the crisis and eventually move on. The bad news: Disruption has moved on, too. COVID focused minds and energies on managing sudden, massive supply-demand dislocation amid severe cost pressures and labor shortages. Today’s […]

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Modern e-commerce fulfillment operations face ongoing challenges in balancing speed, efficiency and cost control. Traditional autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) have been constrained by the limited size of their onboard trays, restricting capacity and forcing additional trips to complete daily throughput. These systems also tend to leave robots idle while carts are loaded or unloaded, reducing […]

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Global supply chains are being reshaped by forces that are both unpredictable and deeply structural. Geopolitical realignment, trade policy shifts, sustainability demands, and talent shortages are rewriting the rules of global trade. For supply chain leaders, the real risk isn’t disruption itself – it’s not staying ahead of what’s coming. The mandate is clear: act fast, […]

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Many integrated business planning processes fall short of delivering the full value they can provide. Too often, companies enter into IBP with the wrong vision and intent, seeing it mainly as a way to generate a plan — and dust it off quarterly — rather than a means to manage the business holistically. When IBP […]

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Four years after COVID-19, labor disruption continues. To be fair, labor shortages and dislocation predate the pandemic and have more to do with the tectonic shift in supply chain operations from traditional business-to-business fulfilment to direct-to-consumer e-commerce. The differences are most dramatic in the warehouse. B2B demand focuses on capacity for storage, distribution and, in […]

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