Topic: Warehouse/DC

Management expects limited or reduced costs, while the boom in e-commerce demands the picking of ever greater quantities and better customer service.

Research recently issued by Los Angeles-based industrial real estate firm CBRE pointed to warehouses smaller than 120,000 square-feet, which it refers to as “light-industrial” properties, as growing in demand, due largely in part to continued e-commerce growth.

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Ottawa-based Shopify, a multi-channel commerce platform, announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Waltham, Mass.-based 6 River Systems, a provider of collaborative warehouse solutions. The purchase price is $450 million, and the acquisition is expected to be made official in the fourth quarter.

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虽然e-commerce-driven供应链paced by steady consumer activity, as evidenced with an expected 15% sales growth rate for 2019, research recently issued by Deloitte indicates that industrial real estate growth, for spaces like warehouses, distribution centers, and flex spaces may not keep pace. The reason for this, explained Deloitte, is the firm’s expectation that market oversupply, heightened competition, rising interest rates and growing cost of capital will send industrial real estate on a downward growth path.

Research issued this week by Los Angeles-based industrial real estate firm CBRE pointed to a mild uptick in the second quarter availability rate for United States industrial real estate, snapping what the firm called a historic run of consecutive quarters of declining availability at 34, its longest stretch going back to when it first started tracking this data in 1998.

Robots, including autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), are seeing rapid uptake in warehouses. The labor crunch and the ability of AMRs to offload manual travel are central to their take-off, but there are other benefits to robotics besides reducing the labor requirement.

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Entitled “Cold Storage Space: One Size Does Not Fit All,” the report cited a projection from the Food Marketing Institute and Nielsen that there could be demand for up to 100 million square-feet of industrial real estate space over the next five years, with online grocery ordering expected to account for 13% of total grocery sales by 2022, marking a 3% gain from 2018. This level of growth, the report explained, would be the equivalent of another $100 billion in annual online grocery sales.

Warehouse execution system (WES) software is becoming more important to automated warehouses that need to manage machines, people and inventory resources against a high-velocity stream of orders and tight delivery commitments. WES can be more than a one-function solution for orchestrating zones “inside the four walls,” and can instead operate as a complex hybrid that paces work to logistics events.

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Kenco said this new warehouse space will function as what it called a true test facility for its team of innovation specialists whom will assess value-added technology and also provide advanced visibility into various efforts focused on testing potential supply chain management solutions and technological advances outside of a live operation

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