Logistics/Supply Chain

AI Connects ERP Data to Product and Packaging Specifications

Specright uses AI to help manufacturers break down data silos between ERP systems, suppliers, and departments, creating a single source of truth for product and packaging specifications.

October 21, 2026

Logistics/Supply Chain

Logistics/Supply Chain

Specright

October 21, 2026

Logistics/Supply Chain

AI Layer Replaces Paper and Excel for Packaging Line Management

The hardware-agnostic platform sits on top of existing packaging equipment rather than replacing it, pulling paper check sheets and spreadsheet data into a single system that tracks makeready waste, crew-level changeover performance, and packaging material genealogy in real time.

October 20, 2026

Digital Transformation

Harmony AI

October 20, 2026

Logistics/Supply Chain

Berran Industrial Group

October 20, 2026

Logistics/Supply Chain

Handheld Strapping Tools Tighten, Weld, Cut Plastic Straps

This handheld tool can apply plastic straps to pallets quickly and with easy operation.

October 20, 2026

E-commerce/D2C packaging

SMA Cuts Packaging Costs 30% to 35% With On-Demand Corrugated Cases

Case dimensions calculated in the Latitude warehouse management system (WMS) now drive equipment that builds a right-sized corrugated case for each order and paid back the project in only six to seven months.

October 8, 2026

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Live at E-comm Pkg & Label Expo: How Harry's & Glossier Moved from D2C to Retail

A package system built solely for the e-comm channel and the doorstep rarely translates to the retail shelf. Here is what has to change, and why the strongest brands design for both channels from the start.

October 2, 2026

Logistics/Supply Chain

Nestlé: Packaging Decisions Shape Supply Chain Flexibility

Erika Nwaneshiudu tells brand teams what will be profitable and what will be risky. Her advice is to design complexity out of packaging and pack counts early, and put the cost in dollars.

September 30, 2026

Logistics/Supply Chain

Skincare Brand Right-Sizes Transport Packaging Across a 60-SKU Line

Orders from professional acne treatment brand Face Reality can combine a 30-mL serum with a 473-mL treatment-room bottle, and everything in between, in the same case. Working with a fulfillment provider, Face Reality removed the packaging guesswork and replaced subjective, picker-selected cases and bubble wrap with repeatable dimensioning software and paper-based void fill.

September 11, 2026

E-commerce

Drone Delivery Puts Pharma Packaging to the Test

BayCare Health System, a not-for-profit academic healthcare system in West Central Florida, is partnering with autonomous delivery company Zipline to build a healthcare drone delivery network for medications.

September 9, 2026

Sustainable Packaging

End of the Line Video Series: EPS News, Energy Efficient Facilities, and a Serialized Gum Pouch

Learn why USPP dropped EPS transport packaging from its problematic materials list and about a new mineralized oral health chew.

August 24, 2026

Logistics/Supply Chain

Walmart: FSMA 204 Compliance as the Floor, Not the Ceiling

At GS1 Connect last month, Walmart’s Ed Bonin argued that the same item-level data that brand owners and CPGs collect to satisfy FSMA 204 can become a freshness intelligence layer. It can score every lot, reroute fresh product before it spoils, and finally show growers what happens after the loading dock.

July 29, 2026