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Amazon’s Decision to Up Holiday Season Worker Needs- The Why

Supply Chain Matters

As a means of comparison, the National Retail Federation reported in January that last year’s retail sales during the November to December holiday period grew 5.3 The company acknowledged that it overbuilt customer fulfillment capacity and aimed to sublet upwards of 10 million square feet or more of warehouse space. percent to $963.3

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Shoveling Snow with a Dustpan (Takeaways from BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

I encouraged the audience to ask themselves that question and provided them with this comparison of companies of yesterday versus companies of tomorrow. We’re not just a supply chain execution or supply chain management software company,” said Braun, “we’re a Global Trade Network.”.