The Boundary Between Software and the Physical Supply Chain Is Disappearing

The New Logistics Advantage — Part 3 of 9
The old distinction between information technology and physical logistics is becoming harder to maintain. Software once sat above the operation: it planned, recorded, scheduled, and reported what happened in warehouses and transportation networks. Increasingly, computation is moving into the assets and processes themselves.
Warehouses now combine execution software with robotics, automated storage, machine vision, sensors, controls, and increasingl