MHI Blog—The MHI Solutions Community has partnered with the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE) to release a white paper that will help you learn how big data analytics can add value to your supply chain operations. This paper, titled Adding Value to Manufacturing, Retail, Supply Chain, and Logistics Operations with Big Data Analytics, examines how big data analytics can add value to supply chain operations by gaining insightful business knowledge about business operations.

Supply Chain Dive—As the 5G mobile broadband standard begins to roll out in cities across the world, supply chain and logistics managers who don't have a strategy already may be behind the curve. Two-thirds of organizations plan to deploy 5G by 2020, with operational efficiency seen as the key benefit.

Modern Materials Handling—Forget 500,000-square-foot—or even 50,000-square-foot—distribution centers. Materials handling automation and technologies are the next trend in brick-and-mortar fulfillment.

Supply Chain Management Review—Given that logistics leaders face pressure from their stakeholders to optimize logistics costs while maintaining service and performance levels, Gartner, Inc. has identified five actions to achieve cost optimization from within the organization.

MHI Blog—Much like people, warehouse racks are not invincible. Factors such as overloading, poor design and installation errors can all lead to rack failure. However, impacts from mobile equipment are one of the leading causes of damage and racking collapses. With such high stakes, what advice is available to help businesses prevent racking collapses from occurring?

CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly—The industry is being transformed by its adoption of the Precision Scheduled Railroading philosophy. Traffic is down thus far in 2019, but is a foundation being laid for growth?

USA Today—Aircraft giant Boeing and German sports car maker Porsche are teaming up on a flying car – specifically, a self-driving air taxi. The two companies announced that they'll work together to develop a concept for an upscale commercial passenger drone and to evaluate the potential market for such a vehicle.

ThomasNet—There will be 7million hobbyist and commercial drones in the sky by 2020, the FAA predicts. While the vast majority of these will be used for recreational purposes, a significant rise in the number of delivery drones is also expected. But what is the environmental impact of drone deliveries compared to traditional truck deliveries?

Global Trade Mag—For U.S. companies with global operations, one of the most effective ways to mitigate risk is to ship smarter. One of the ways to do that is to partner with more stable countries, where tariff changes aren’t expected. There are quite a few other ways to mitigate your risk, too, especially applicable during this time of almost constant change.