Brady Corp., a maker of labeling, safety and related businesses, shook up the data collection and mobile terminal sectors in late April with news it had acquired several businesses from industrial ...

First Sipes notes that many industrial automation markets slowed in 2024 and 2025 as geopolitical uncertainty delayed investment. She adds that project delays weakened demand for ...

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As many readers may know, I took a tour as an analyst from roughly 1998 to 2000, with a company called META Group, out of Stamford, CT. Though little remembered today, at the time META was the second ...

Analyst firm ARC Advisory Group is out with its latest report on Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). While there is a fee for that usually excellent report, there are some interesting comments from ...

It’s not like procurement doesn’t have enough to do, what with new ESG initiatives, the need to create more supply chain resilience, executive demands to reduce risk and much more, on top of its ...

Consumer products giant Unilever, long known as being out in front in terms of sustainability, is taking efforts to reduce CO2 emissions to a new level with additional mandates for its suppliers.

Modern day slavery in the supply chain remains a major risk for companies and procurement execs. So says new research on the topic from Gartner and analyst Laura Rainier in a press announcement this ...

The following column comes through special arrangement with the Lean Enterprise Institute. It is an article written by Lean expert Michael Ballé, consultant and author of several Lean-oriented books.

In what has become a litany since shortly after the start of the pandemic in 2022, demand for warehouse space continues to be on a tear, setting records yet again for the first half of 2022, according ...

The following column comes through special arrangement with the Lean Enterprise Institute. It is an article written by "Lean Leaper" Although there are instances of rigorous process thinking in ...