I've been keeping informal notes on what keeps coming up in the supply chain conversations I'm part of in 2026. There are roughly five things, and they don't live in separate rooms. Each one keeps reinforcing the others. Tariffs and geopolitical volatility The US…
Mecalux published its 2026 logistics outlook early in January and it's worth a read if you're planning the next twelve months. The five trends they identify are individually unsurprising, but it's interesting as a cluster because they all point the same direction. The five,…
In April 2026 a company called Exol announced a US-wide robotic fulfillment network built on a fulfillment-as-a-service model. I had to re-read the funding number twice. It's a real number. The basics Exol (formerly GreenBox Logistics) isn't selling automation to brands. Instead, it's running…
Brightpick launched Gridpicker in March 2026 and I spent a while staring at the throughput numbers. If they hold up under real-world conditions, the shuttle market has a problem. What they're claiming * Roughly 2 times the throughput per square meter compared to shuttle systems * 100 plus picks per…
People ask me what warehouse solution design actually is, and I'm never sure how to answer in one sentence. It isn't picking between AutoStore and a pallet shuttle. It starts three months before anyone orders a pallet shuttle, in a room with a spreadsheet, a customer…
The last two years of supply chain work have been an exercise in undoing decisions that seemed reasonable in 2018. Long tails with sole-source suppliers, razor-thin buffer stock, optimization for the average case instead of the tail. All of it looks different after 2024's cascading disruptions and the…
This is the first real post on Murat's Lab, a personal notebook for homelab tinkering, project writeups, and code snippets. What lives here The blog sits on a small CasaOS homeserver at home, behind Nginx Proxy Manager. It runs Ghost in Docker alongside Plex, the *arr stack, wger,…