In recent years, major swings have been observed in the logistics sector due to innovation and automation. With new technological solutions, logistics businesses are undergoing a major transformation and impacting the way people work in the supply chain industry. It becomes important to take advantage of these technologies which are the result of notable market trends. With growing complexities, increased pressure and tough competition, the logistics industry is driving towards automation for both long term and short term benefits. Logistics automation is definitely worth investing in! Almost all the industries are massively shaped by consumers' expectations and the logistics sector is no different!

IT'S robots that mostly come to mind when you ask people about the future of work. Robots taking our jobs, to be specific. And it's a reaction that's two centuries old, in a replay of Lancashire weavers attacking looms and stocking frames at the start of the first Industrial Revolution. A secondary reaction, among a much smaller group, is the creation of new jobs in the coming fourth Industrial Revolution. On the left side are old industries, where some workers are being replaced by robots.

About a year ago, the idea began creeping into executive discussions and podcast interviews that "enterprise content management" just doesn't cut it for describing what is possible and happening with today's technologies and approaches. Indeed, just as old-school handles like "document management, "imaging" or "the paperless office" eventually gave way to newer concepts and designations, is it possible our old friend ECM is on the way out of industry favor? In January of this year, Gartner posted a blog post titled, "Death of ECM and the Birth of Content Services" from Research Director Michael Woodbridge. The assertion caused quite a stir… and for good reason. "I have been working with my team to kill off a market definition I have spent the most significant portion of my career serving," said Woodbridge in the post. "ECM is now dead (kaput, finite, an ex-market name), at least in how Gartner defines the market." Gartner is instead advocating for "Content Services" as a replacement construct that includes content, platforms and components. Forrester also chimed in to support the idea, splitting the market into two parts, Transactional Content Services and Business Content Services. But Woodbridge is quick to point out that the change in perspective is what's important, not the terminology. "It is only a definition; however, it articulates a different way of thinking about the problem that can be liberating for organizations paralyzed by the apparent need for consolidation." AIIM International stepped forward recently to propose the term "Intelligent Information Management" (IIM) as a suitable replacement. In his e-book "The Next Wave: Moving from ECM to Intelligent Information Management," John Mancini, Chief Evangelist at AIIM, puts it this way: "The role we expect content and information management to play in our organizations is clearly more than traditional data-centric ECM, and it is clearly more than Content Services.