How Throughput Journal chooses stories, what we do before a number goes on the page, and how paid placement stays visibly separate from reporting.
Scope
Warehouse operations, automation and robotics, systems and software, fulfilment and 3PL, freight and transport. The reader is the person accountable for throughput and cost per unit. If an article does not change a decision about layout, labour, kit or carriers, it is not worth the space.
Evidence
- Throughput rates, pick productivity, payback periods and freight rates are attributed to whoever produced them, with the operation type and the period attached. A rate without an operating context is decoration.
- Vendor-supplied figures are identified as vendor-supplied in the sentence where they appear.
- Payback and ROI claims are shown with their assumptions — volume, shift pattern, labour rate — because those assumptions are where the number actually lives.
- Where a claim could not be confirmed, we write that it could not be confirmed.
- No fabricated quotes, no invented sites, no case studies about operations that do not exist.
Commercial separation
The publication is commercially funded, partly through paid partner content, and that side has no access to the editorial desk. Partners do not preview articles, cannot commission favourable coverage and cannot have coverage withdrawn.
Paid work runs as its own product: Partner content label, disclosure panel, excluded from the editorial feed, outbound links marked rel="sponsored". We decline paid work that is off-scope or that would misrepresent what a system does on a real floor.
How drafts are produced
Software including AI is used in research and production. Unreviewed output is not published. A person edits every article, and the publication is accountable for accuracy whatever produced the draft.
Revisions
Articles are revised when the underlying facts change, and substantive revisions are dated on the page. Dates on unchanged articles are left alone.
Questions about any of this: editor@throughputjournal.com.