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They're not just for heavy lifting anymore. The next generation of forklifts will be RFID-enabled smart trucks that not only collect data but crunch it as well.
Today he heads one of the most complicated distribution networks in the nation. But Steve Inacker started in the business at the ground level—literally—as part of a conveyor installation crew.
Today, over 70 percent of general ocean cargo is shipped in containers, and about 11,000,000 containers, representing $1.5 billion in goods, enter the United States each year. As the wave of incoming containers turns tidal, the question becomes whether the nation's transportation system can handle the flood.
What congestion on highways, at ports and on the rails costs our economy is hard to measure. But it is certainly expensive, and by all accounts, it is only going to get worse.
Our supply chain universe can be seen as clustered around three "estates," roughly comparable to the social divisions in pre-revolutionary France. We might, without stretching too far, term them the First Estate?the academic community (or the "clergy"); the Second Estate—the consultants and software developers (or the "nobility"); and the Third Estate—working practitioners (or the "commoners").