eCommerce is having a profound impact on so many areas of supply chain, business and society, and that obviously includes materials handling systems.

Clint Reiser, an analyst at research firm ARC Advisory Group, has written a series of recent blog posts on a new class of automated "microfulfillment" technologies, many from new-aged materials handling start-ups.

What makes these technologies different? And will shippers adopt these new technologies - or revert back to the systems and vendors they are comfortable with?

Reiser discusses all this and more in this fast-pace video discussion, an excerpt from our weekly Supply Chain Video News program, with CSCMP.

Please view the short video below.