Victoria Kickham, Senior Editor, started her career as a newspaper reporter in the Boston area before moving into B2B journalism. She has covered manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain issues ...

While scaling their operations to meet growing demand, Four Hands faced the challenge of managing a diverse product mix — ranging from 2-lb. lamps to 400-lb. coffee tables — across a growing network ...

As FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon.com Inc., they’ve been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and ...

UPS will invest about $120 million to buy 400 truck-unloading robots from Pickle Robot Co., adding detail to its $9 billion automation plan aimed at cutting labor costs. The robots can unload trucks ...

Close to 63% of drivers spend more than three hours at a shipper’s dock waiting to be loaded and unloaded, according to a recent survey by DAT Solutions. Ad Loading... DAT, which maintains a network ...

How long do you typically spend at a loading dock? Even when everything is going just swimmingly well, you're looking at 30 minutes minimum, sometimes as much as an hour if the forklift driver isn't ...