Reining Transport

Supply Chain Dive | January 27, 2020

Supply and demand for industrial warehouse space will increase in lockstep through 2021 as North American square footage dedicated to warehousing increases, but vacancy rates hold at roughly 5%, predicted Cushman & Wakefield in a report released Friday. In 2019, industrial real estate supply caught up with booming demand created by the swift expansion of e-commerce, reversing a nine-year trend of undersupply. Cushman & Wakefield pegs North American vacancy at 4.6% for the whole of 2019. ...

Unilever | January 23, 2020

Unilever has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with JD Logistics to drive more sustainable business initiatives into its supply chain. The group said that it is building on its 'existing strategic relationship' with JD.com, which operates JD Logistics, to 'create a framework to identify opportunities for innovation and sustainable growth'. The agreement was penned at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. Collaborative Projects: Unilever will work along...

SUPPLY CHAIN

E2open | May 11, 2021

For the second year in a row, Gartner has put E2open, a leading network-based provider of 100% cloud-based, mission-critical, end-to-end supply chain management software, in the Leaders quadrant with the highest potential to perform and completeness of vision in its 2021 Magic Quadrant for Multienterprise Supply Chain Business Networks. “Globalization and outsourcing have transformed industries, making them more competitive to deliver goods to market, but also more challengi...

MANAGEMENT

Korber | July 07, 2021

Korber has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) study for 2021. The award, according to Korber, demonstrates the company's unmatched depth of technologies, ranging from software to materials handling automation, in overcoming supply chain difficulties in some of the world's most demanding environments. Korber offers WMS solutions that are specifically personalized to the requirements of small businesses, global enterprise...