Working together will make Kroger customers faster and more responsive in fulfilling e-commerce orders, reducing costs and increasing dedicated capacity in the middle of the supply chain.” “Supply”, CEO and Gatik co-founder Gautam Narang said in an email. AV Tech has distributed Class 3 through 6 trucks in markets like [...]

KoiReader technology can identify and track barcodes and tags of all sizes and angles in fast-moving environments such as a conveyor belt or even partially damaged tags, said Ashutosh Prasad, Founder and CEO of KoiReader , in an interview with Supply Chain Dive. The technology also tracks regular or irregular [...]

Jan Burian is Head of Manufacturing Insights Europe, Middle East and Africa at International Data Corporation. Opinions are the property of the author. OpenAI’s public release of ChatGPT in late November 2022 turned out to be an exceptional event. For the first time, everyone in the world could experience what [...]

Serta Simmons Bedding is digitally optimizing its production operations to create a more resilient supply chain. Linen retailer uses Blue Yonder’s integrated supply and demand planning software in its existing planning system to “improve the accuracy of our forecasts, resulting in more accurate staffing and reduced overtime costs at our [...]

Supply chain attacks. CrowdStrike researchers uncovered malicious activity related to 3CX late last month, including flagging infrastructure controlled by an outside cybercriminal. Investigators also reported the second phase of payload distribution and keyboard activity. CrowdStrike directed the supply chain attacks to government-affiliated organizations associated with Labyrinth Chollima, a sophisticated, persistent [...]

When Kroger announced a deal with Ocado in 2018 to build automated order fulfillment centers in the US, the grocery store predicted it would identify sites for a maximum of 20 installations within three years. However, as of this month, Kroger has started operations in just eight CFCs, and while [...]

Speaking to investors and analysts on day two of its annual investors meeting, executives reminded their audience that Walmart’s inventory sits within 10 miles of 90% of the U.S. population. For decades the retail giant has staked its growth and profits on this vast brick-and-mortar network of what is now [...]

For Amazon, small drones can do the heavy lifting. That’s according to a patent filing published Jan. 19 in which drones team up to deliver larger orders. The mission describes a “collective” drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will transport a variety of items beyond the capabilities of a [...]

Delivery robots yet, or within a minute, the FedEx robot prototype has made the last mile delivery process compelling enough to be shown on late night TV. “This is where the future is,” Jimmy Fallon said in 2019, when the company’s autonomous robot, later dubbed Roxo, was delivering pizza to [...]

Manufacturers are increasingly turning to digital twin technologies to streamline their operations and supply chains. Digital twins technically existed at least until the 1960s, when NASA experimented with virtual models during the Apollo program. Thanks to increasingly powerful sensors and software in recent years, manufacturers can now also take advantage [...]