Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Blockchain Makes Inroads in Shipping (WSJ – sub. Global Container Volume on Track for Worst Year Since 2009 (WSJ – sub. Moving from trucking to ocean transportation, San Francisco startup Flexport Inc. Flexport Raises $65 Million in Venture Capital to Expand Operations (Transport Topics).

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Oz’s solutions address a number of pain points for e-commerce shippers by automating logistics and supply chain processes, including order fulfilment, inventory management/scanning, and shipping. Well, as Alexander Chee reports in a long piece in the Wall Street Journal , “it is quickly and quietly becoming a reality.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

2021 came with a new set of challenges as global and local supply chains were hit by raw materials shortages, accompanied by longer lead times and higher shipping costs, lack of labor, and the pent-up demand actualizing as record-breaking sales. When Amazon launched same-day delivery in 2009, it opened to a new generation of retail business.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

about 60 miles east of San Francisco, Amazon this summer replaced four floors of fixed shelving with the robots, the people said. Amazon’s fulfillment costs have risen annually since 2009 and consumed 12.3% for all of 2009. The Seattle online retailer has outfitted several U.S. billion in the third quarter.

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