The Automation Project Ends at Go Live. That Is the Problem.
Go-live day gets the champagne and the case study. The research shows the real test, and the real risk to people and performance, starts the day after.
Continue ReadingCategory: Warehouse management
Warehouse Digital Twins: What They Can Actually Do for You Today
A practitioner’s guide to the real capabilities, the concrete use cases, and the honest limitations of digital twin technology in warehouse operations right now.
Continue Reading
Same System, Two Countries: What I Learned Harmonizing Two Warehouses Across a Border
What does it actually take to replicate a working warehouse operation across a border? This is the story of harmonizing two distribution centers in Sweden and Denmark, and why the hardest part had nothing to do with technology.
Continue Reading
Green Warehousing: Why Sustainability Is Now an Operational Imperative
Sustainability in warehouse operations is no longer a CSR exercise. It is an operational and regulatory reality driven by CSRD, customer pressure, and the hidden environmental gains from automation.
Continue Reading
The Return Problem Is Not a Logistics Problem
Returns are bleeding retailers dry. But the instinct to fix the logistics process is the wrong response. The real problem is the business model, and the companies that understand that are already pulling ahead.
Continue Reading
The trust problem: how much autonomy should you give an AI agent?
When warehouse AI moves from recommending to deciding, the hardest question is not technical. It is organizational. It is early Tuesday morning and the afternoon shift is still hours away. No supervisor has flagged anything. No alert has been sent. But somewhere inside your warehouse management system, an AI agent has already decided that the […]
Continue Reading
The Island Problem in Warehouse Logistics
How siloed systems and competing AI optimizers quietly undermine the very efficiency they were built to create. Walk into a modern, highly automated warehouse and you will see what looks like a well-orchestrated machine. Conveyors hum. Robots glide. Orders flow. Dashboard screens glow green. Everything, by all appearances, is running optimally. But look more carefully […]
Continue Reading
Challenges in European Warehouse Logistics: A Practitioner’s View
The call came on a Tuesday morning in February. A key client wanted delivery volumes up 40 percent for the spring campaign, starting in six weeks. We had the orders. We did not have the staff, the dock slots, or the racking capacity to handle the ramp. That moment, more than any market report, captures […]
Continue Reading
How AI is Transforming Labor Management in Modern Warehouses
Walk into any busy warehouse and you will see the same challenge playing out in real time: one department is overwhelmed while another is standing idle. The supervisor is scrambling, trying to figure out where to move people next. It is a problem that has existed for as long as warehouses have, and it has […]
Continue Reading
Lean and good leadership an unbeatable combination in warehouse production
Discussions on Leadership and Lean I have had several interesting discussions both on LinkedIn and via email from blog readers concerning my articles on leadership and lean. Below are some clarifications on how I think about these topics. Why You Should Implement Lean I have received comments where people believe that lean is unnecessary and […]
Continue Reading