Investment in automation is expected to double within the next four years, with supply chain leaders in an internal Accenture survey citing warehouse automation as one of their top three priorities for digital investment. Clearly, the industry has huge growth potential. But what does this mean for the millions of workers who currently work in warehouses around the world?

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A warehouse management system (WMS) is the backbone of the warehouse operation. Every company has its logistics unique selling points. A good WMS will strengthen it and give the company a competitive advantage, but a bad WMS will weaken the company

The pandemic and the logistics mess exposed a long-standing issue: The United States doesn’t have enough warehouses, or workers to run them, to satiate Americans’ insatiable desires for new stuff.

Advances in warehouse robotics, coupled with increasing labour costs and difficulty in finding workers, has created a watershed moment in the logistics industry. With covid-19 lockdowns causing supply-chain disruptions and a boom in home deliveries that looks likely to endure, fulfilment centres have been working at full tilt.

Experts say the technology isn’t replacing human workers anytime soon. But the latest steps show warehouse robots are evolving as the computer vision and software that guide them grow more sophisticated, allowing them to take on more tasks that have been largely done by people.

In Tracy, at Amazon’s newest robotics center, employees work side by side with robots. The new technology isn’t making jobs disappear, they just become “more skilled,” said site leader Ryan Gunnell during a tour of the facility.