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Logistics Payrolls Surging Ahead of Fall Shipping Season
Logistics sector hiring kept up a brisk pace in July as delivery firms, trucking companies and warehouse operators added 15,600 jobs ahead of the peak shipping season.
Three Ways Wholesale Distributors Can Improve Planning
Shoppers’ expectations of convenience, choice, price and experience continue to change. Staying ahead of the trends is key to winning.
Why Online Retailers Need Better Inventory Management
Online sales are a must for just about every traditional retailer today. But they can also be a drag on profits.
Accidents at Amazon: Workers Left to Suffer After Warehouse Injuries
Vickie Shannon Allen, 49, started working at Amazon as a counter in a fulfillment warehouse at Haslet, Texas, in May 2017. At first, like many employees, Allen was excited by the idea of working for one of the fastest growing corporations in the world. That feeling dissipated quickly after a few months.
For Smaller Online Sellers, Is Amazon Friend or Foe?
To a smaller merchant looking to sell its products over the internet, Amazon.com, with its massive network of warehouses and fulfillment resources, might seem like an irresistible partner. At what point, though, does Amazon become the competition?
Harnessing New Supply Chain Technology Without Falling for the Hype
Are you finding yourself enamored by new technology, but not 100-percent sure what it actually does? You might be in the midst of what Gartner calls the “Peak of Inflated Expectations.”
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Amazon Rival FreshDirect Draws Battle Lines With Bronx Warehouse
FreshDirect has figured out an important trick: how to make money delivering groceries.
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U.S. Warehouse Supply at Its Tightest in Two Decades
For U.S. retailers, manufacturers, importers and exporters, warehouse space is at its tightest since 2000, when the first dot-com boom was driving strong consumer spending and imports from China were beginning to surge.
Order Collaboration Yields ROI for Leading Apparel Manufacturer
Challenge: A manufacturer of top-tier athletic apparel and footwear is also a supplier for its own retail and wholesale channels. As a global company, it lacked visibility into purchase orders and struggled with shipment tracking. This led to restrictions in the company’s ability to collaborate with a supplier base of several hundred vendors and factories — as well as limited end-to-end visibility.
3PL Takes Major Leap Toward Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Compliance
Challenge: Nearly 10 percent of the world’s drug supply is counterfeit, prompting many countries to set rigid guidelines to track and trace pharmaceuticals across the supply chain. Achieving compliance is often a huge undertaking for pharmaceutical manufacturers and 3PL providers.
Amazon, H&M and Other Multinationals Are Pressing to Soften Indian State's Plastic Ban
Multinational companies like Amazon Inc and H&M are lobbying to soften a ban against single-use plastic imposed by an Indian state last week, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
Q&A: The Value of Humans in the Factory — and Robots in the Home
If you’re not crazy about the thought of robots taking all the jobs, then you should hold an Elon Musk-level of obsessive adoration for Danish roboticist Esben Østergaard. The co-founder and CTO of Universal Robots was the driving force behind the development of collaborative robots, or cobots.
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