Logistics

U.S. warehouse vacancy remains at all-time lows, with estimates placing national vacancy below 4%. Meanwhile, e-commerce sellers, traditional retailers, manufacturers, and other industrial stakeholders are all competing for new space as it becomes available. The natural ... Read More

As consumer shopping habits keep shifting online, the industrial real estate sector has struggled to keep pace. The e-commerce boom drove a shortage of 300 million square feet of warehouse space by the end of 2021, ... Read More

Many different businesses rely on third-party logistics (3PL) providers to handle the fulfillment and distribution of materials, inventory, or customer orders. However, companies often make the decision to outsource logistics relatively early on once order volumes, ... Read More

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers started to run out of inventory, and manufacturers ran out of raw materials to make more. As a result, stockouts among U.S. retailers jumped from 14% in 2019 ... Read More

Storing and handling food products requires special considerations beyond the scope of what a standard warehouse can provide. Proper storage for food items requires strict compliance with various federal, state, and local regulations to ensure that ... Read More

A talent shortage continues to create problems for American businesses across all industries. While the pandemic gets the brunt of the blame for ongoing supply chain disruptions, the logistics and transportation labor shortage makes it increasingly ... Read More

Remember the first half of 2020 when our biggest fear was running out of toilet paper? It was something we all needed, and there wasn't enough to go around. That realization caused consumers to panic-buy as ... Read More

Most small e-commerce and multichannel retail businesses fulfill their orders internally as the operation gets off the ground. However, as order volumes climb and the business transitions from a small entity to a medium enterprise, the ... Read More

When COVID-19 upended the supply chain in early 2020, few experts thought we would still be facing pandemic-related supply chain disruptions in 2022, but here we are. Though supply chain, logistics, and procurement practitioners have managed ... Read More

Few business sectors have experienced growth and success over the last two years, but industrial real estate has stood apart since the onset of COVID-19 in early 2020. The pandemic spurred numerous trends which have ... Read More