Mr. Gilmore serves as Chief Editor of Supply Chain Digest. He has a 15-year career in the supply chain industry, most recently serving as Sr. Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for RedPrairie.

Supply Chain Digest is the industry's most valuable supply chain management and logistics publication. Supply Chain Digest is a weekly, on-line newsletter with lively information, news and commentary ...

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 ...

MHI - trade association for the broad materials handing sector - made quite a stir with the announcement in April that it was launching a new tradeshow and conference two years from next week, October ...

AI continues to be all the rage, with investments in AI software companies and infrastructure to power all those smarts still coming hot and heavy. In a recent blog post, Gartner analyst Wade McDaniel ...

The last several years have certainly been good for warehouse developers and builders, with all-time records for lowest vacancy rates overall and in many individual markets, lease rates rising sharply ...

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 ...

Real estate firm CBRE is out with its annual review for 2022 of so-called “big box” distribution centers, defined as facilities taking up more than 200,000 square feet Supply Chain Digest Says ...

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 ...

The following column comes through special arrangement with the Lean Enterprise Institute. It is an article recently written by LEI President Josh Howell. What does world-class lean operations look ...

The following column comes through special arrangement with the Lean Enterprise Institute. It is an article written by Lean experts Mike Rother, author of many Lean books and articles, and John Shook, ...