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Short-form thoughts, observations, and quick writeups.
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A few things I'm still digesting from the last nine months

By Murat Can Dogruyol in supply chain on 11 Apr 2026

Three separate pieces of news from the past nine months keep bubbling up in my head and I want to put them in one place. They're the kind of thing that used to live in the "2030 outlook" section of every deck, and they've…

DHL hit a billion picks and the item was a pink beanie

By Murat Can Dogruyol in warehousing on 11 Apr 2026

There's a press release I've been thinking about for a week. DHL Supply Chain and Locus Robotics just crossed one billion cumulative picks on their joint AMR fleet. The billionth item, the one that actually tripped the counter, was a pink beanie. I don't…

An AI model noticed we buy pizza with ice cream, and I can't stop thinking about it

By Murat Can Dogruyol in warehousing on 11 Apr 2026

A small number from a grocery slotting project caught me this week and I want to write it down before I forget it. A grocery distributor, one of the big ones, ran a generative AI model across twelve months of order lines and its own warehouse slotting. The model came…

A note about humanoid robots and where they actually are right now

By Murat Can Dogruyol in warehousing on 11 Apr 2026

I was scrolling through humanoid robot coverage last week and ended up in a spot I didn't expect. The press coverage is going one way, the actual shipment numbers are going a different way, and I can't stop thinking about the gap. At the start of…

Nearshoring stopped being a slide and started being a capex line

By Murat Can Dogruyol in supply chain on 11 Apr 2026

The framing around nearshoring shifted in 2025-2026, and I think most people missed the moment it happened because it happened gradually. It used to be a tactical response to shipping costs and COVID disruption. In 2026 it's a strategic reorientation, backed by capital commitments large enough to rebuild…

Sustainability in warehouses is now a line item, not a slide

By Murat Can Dogruyol in warehousing on 11 Apr 2026

I used to think of warehouse sustainability as an ESG slide in the corporate deck. In 2026 it's a line item in the project budget, usually with regulation sitting behind it and finance checking the math. The stakes Green logistics is already a 1.43 trillion dollar market…

The quiet layer of warehouse automation that finally works

By Murat Can Dogruyol in warehousing on 11 Apr 2026

The flashy part of warehouse automation is the robot that picks. The less visible layer, drone-based inventory counting and live digital twins, is where some of the most useful progress has happened in 2025-2026. None of it looks good on a conference stage and all of it is worth paying…

The warehouse automation market, in numbers I had to re-read

By Murat Can Dogruyol in warehousing on 11 Apr 2026

I had to look a couple of these numbers up twice because they didn't line up with what I assumed. A short round-up of the figures worth knowing about warehouse automation in 2026, with the one that surprised me most at the end. The top-line * Global warehouse automation…

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