Home May 17, 2024 How to Handle Warehouse Labor Challenges with Automation Mary Hart, Senior Content Marketing Manager The logistics, fulfillment, and warehousing industry is facing a perfect storm of labor challenges. Many thought that the labor issues in warehouses and other sectors would lessen as time passed from the start of the pandemic — but instead, hiring remains a struggle for many. Customers are returning to stores, but they haven’t forgotten nor moved away from the ability to order something online and have it delivered directly to their house instead of having to shop in ..read more

Home May 03, 2024 How to Ease the Top Headaches of Manufacturing Warehouses Mary Hart, Senior Content Marketing Manager Manufacturing and industrial warehouses are at the heart of supply chains, ensuring goods reach consumers in a timely manner. However, these facilities face ongoing challenges from unpredictable labor markets to stringent safety standards and growing environmental concerns. It’s a lot for any warehouse manager to juggle. With automation, your warehouse can overcome these obstacles and drive your warehouse into the future. Manufacturing Warehouse Headache #1: Labor C ..read more

April 24, 2024 5 Must-Know Benefits of AI for Your Warehouse Mary Hart, Senior Content Marketing Manager Warehouse facilities aren't just dusty storage spaces anymore that are visited sometimes to retrieve an item, or in the case of the Indiana Jones movies, to store a supernatural ark that can melt faces off. (Hopefully your warehouse doesn’t have that.) Instead, they’re busy facilities filled with bustling workers and machinery that are working towards the same cause – to get orders out quicker and make customers happy. But, as more orders come in, and more items need to be picked, p ..read more

April 19, 2024 4 Reasons to Automate Your Warehouse Mezzanines with Robots Mary Hart, Senior Content Marketing Manager Warehouse managers know that acquiring more real estate these days usually isn’t feasible with soaring rents, so they’re choosing to stay in their brownfield (current) facility. But with eCommerce orders remaining at an all-time high and customers demanding faster fulfillment times across all industries, you have to do more with the same space.  Is that doable? Yes, if you have expanded your facility with mezzanines and pick towers. These structures work well to ..read more

April 17, 2024 How to Tackle Retail Warehouse Automation Analysis Paralysis Mary Hart, Senior Content Marketing Manager As retail warehouses evolve, talk of automation and robotics has turned from a “maybe” to a “must have”. With numerous solutions flooding the market, warehouse operations managers find themselves at the crossroads of opportunity and indecision. This "analysis paralysis" — the overwhelming feeling when faced with too many options — is a common hurdle. How can you navigate through this maze of technology to find a solution that streamlines operations without needing to ..read more

April 03, 2024 4 Reasons Pick Velocity Beats Storage Density for Your Warehouse Mary Hart, Senior Content Marketing Manager As a warehouse manager, you can feel like you’re in the circus juggling optimization and productivity because customers expect their orders to be fulfilled and delivered with lightning speed. This heightened expectation has put immense pressure on warehouses to streamline their operations and optimize every aspect of the order fulfillment process.  One area that often receives significant attention is storage density — the ratio of available storage space to ..read more

April 01, 2024 4 Ways to Improve Warehouse Operations with Business Intelligence Mary Hart, Senior Content Marketing Manager Optimizing your warehouse operations is crucial for meeting ever-increasing customer demands and staying ahead of your competition. With the rise of flexible robotic automation like autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), you now have access to a wealth of real-time data that can drive operational improvements and strategic decision-making. By harnessing the power of AI and BI, warehouse managers like you are turning this data into actionable insights, unlocking new lev ..read more

March 14, 2024 5 Top Takeaways from MODEX 2024 Mary Hart, Senior Content Marketing Manager The booths are down, the Georgia World Congress Center floors are quiet (until the next tradeshow), and the LocusBots are on their way home along with their human colleagues, but the energy and memories of MODEX 2024 remain high.  It was the largest MODEX yet with over 40,000 attendees and 1,200 exhibitors — they even opened up an additional hall this year to accommodate everyone.  If you were there — or if you couldn’t make it and want to know what you missed — these are the top MODEX ..read more

Home March 08, 2024 Happy International Women’s Day Rick Faulk, Chief Executive Officer Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day — a globally recognized day to celebrate women's social, economic, cultural, and political achievements worldwide. As we take a moment to honor this important occasion, I want to express my sincere gratitude and admiration for the invaluable roles women across Locus play in driving our success. At Locus, we firmly believe that diversity breeds innovation, creativity, and better customer solutions. The perspectives and talents that our women employe ..read more

Home March 07, 2024 Understanding the Cybersecurity Risks of GenAI in the Logistics World Fouad Khalil, Senior Director, Enterprise Security, Risk and Compliance As the digital age progresses, logistics managers are increasingly turning to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to streamline operations, boost productivity, and enhance decision-making processes. The integration of GenAI into warehouse robotics and systems represents a monumental shift in how inventory is managed, orders are processed, and overall logistics efficiencies are achieved. However, this technological ad ..read more