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Amazon’s Fleet of Used Airplanes Makes Green Pledge Harder to Keep

September 25, 2020

Airlines say their newer generation jets are 20% more fuel efficient than the models they’re phasing out, many of which end up in the fleets of cargo carriers.

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Watch: How Can Retailers Make Direct Fulfillment Work?

September 25, 2020

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Rohan Thambrahalli, chief executive officer of UpstartWorks, explains how direct fulfillment can serve as a valuable alternative to traditional means of shipping online purchases to customers, especially with the coming of the peak shopping season.

Special Report: How Supply-Chain Transparency Creates Resilient Operations

September 23, 2020

Ryder

End-to-end transparency improves company performance — and can grow profits up to 10%.

‘Boxing Clever’: Realizing the Benefits of Intelligent Cartonization

September 23, 2020

‘Boxing Clever’: Realizing the Benefits of Intelligent Cartonization

September 22, 2020

Paccurate

Cartonization is getting more attention from businesses as rising volume demand and shipping restrictions drive up costs, and as warehouses surge-hire less-experienced packers to keep up.

Amazon Tries to Make the Climate Its Prime Directive

Amazon Is Trying to Make the Climate Its Prime Directive

September 22, 2020

Bloomberg

Amazon last year committed to zeroing out its carbon footprint by 2040, or eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions caused by its activities. The goal is daunting, and there’s no specific plan for how to reach it.

Amazon Plans to Put 1,000 Warehouses in Suburban Neighborhoods

September 21, 2020

Bloomberg

With the holidays approaching, Amazon is consumed with honoring a pre-pandemic pledge to get products to Prime subscribers on the same day.

Ingram Micro Commerce & Lifecycle Services Expands Global eCommerce Logistics Solution

September 17, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

Ingram Micro Commerce & Lifecycle Services, leveraging its Shipwire platform, recently announced it has secured additional capacity in seven new warehouses to meet the global demand for ecommerce fulfillment solutions.

Robots Driving Forklifts Score Venture Capital, Create Jobs

September 17, 2020

Bloomberg

Silicon Valley investors are increasing bets on a Pittsburgh company that turns a venerable machine of the past century of industrialization — the forklift — into a driver of the e-commerce boom.

UPS Holiday Season Hiring Will Top 100,000 Amid E-Commerce Boom

September 10, 2020

Bloomberg

The holiday hires, a slight increase from last year, will be on top of the thousands of workers the courier already has added to keep up with a surge in package demand.