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• Beyond WMS: Where Warehouse Execution Is Headed Next

  27-10-2026 18:30 via Logistics Viewpoints
  
  WMS is unlikely to disappear; its core responsibilities are more likely to expand into a more continuous, connected, intelligent, and selectively autonomous execution model. The category’s future is therefore less about replacement than about how warehouse execution is re-architected around real-time state and decisions.
  WMS is moving from a transactional warehouse application toward a real-time execution and orchestration layer that coordinates inventory, labor, automation, and downstream tra
  
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• Auto Baggers Move Downstream: A New Approach to Packing Station Productivity

  27-10-2026 17:29 via Logistics Viewpoints
  
  For years, automated bagging systems have been viewed primarily as inventory preparation tools. Retailers, e-commerce companies, and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) commonly use systems from suppliers such as Pregis, PAC Machinery, Autobag, and Sharp Packaging to pre-bag products before storage or fulfillment. The value proposition has traditionally centered on reducing manual packaging labor and improving consistency. However, a growing number of warehouse operators are discovering that
  
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• Use Digital Twins to Validate Logistics Designs Before Go-Live

  27-10-2026 12:00 via Logistics Viewpoints
  
  The strongest case for digital twins in logistics is not visualization. It is validation: using a sufficiently credible model to test operating assumptions, failure modes, capacity constraints, control logic, and alternative designs before those choices are exposed to a live network.
  Many logistics decisions are still tested in the most expensive environment possible: the live operation. Change the network, policy, automation, or service model and then wait to see what the rest of the system doe
  
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