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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

Amazon is at the nexus of ecommerce, data, and logistics, with a drive to constantly improve their logistics network. That’s 258 operational facilities in the US and another 486 distributed around the world (see map below, data from MWPVL ). Source: Amazon.com. And the career data below spells out a strong ocean slant.

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Customer Experience in Logistics: 4 Key Areas to Lay the Foundation

GlobalTranz

Each of these different platforms captures part of the story, but for many organizations, they don’t share information back and forth, nor do they contribute data to a central place where it can be accessed. Let Data Guide the Way For Customer Experience in Logistics. Technology enables it, data guides it , and culture humanizes it.

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Boeing’s Newest Production and Quality Challenge

Supply Chain Matters

As of this afternoon, a published report from industry publication Air Current , citing informed sources, indicated that United Airlines has found loose bolts on door plugs on at least five Boeing 737 Max 9 planes during ongoing inspections. based carriers Alaska Airlines and United Airlines.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 25-29, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Seattle startup Flexe pulls in $14 million from investors (The Seattle Times). Freightos Launches First International Freight Marketplace to Power $2 Trillion Worth of U.S. Annual Imports. Kuebix Announces SaaS TMS with Premier Apps & Integrations. DHL to Expand U.S. E-Commerce Operations (WSJ – sub.

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8 Examples of Kanban in Lean Manufacturing

Unleashed

Store managers ‘pull’ new stock into the pipeline by using analytics data and anecdotal evidence from customers to figure out what people want on the shelves. Inventory managers used real-world data from a year’s worth of operations to determine what optimal stock levels looked like, then deployed the two bins. Keen to find out more?

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Seeing Supply Chain Visibility through Different Lenses

Bristlecone

Ensuring my order would be included in the earliest shipment that the distributor was planning to make from Seattle to the Oakland warehouse. New sources of revenue and increased staff productivity await logistics service providers. Distributors can create reliable sourcing networks and ensure responsive and scalable customer service.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 2-6, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Amazon’s robot army grows by 50 percent (The Seattle Times). Right before Christmas, Descartes announced that it had acquired Datamyne, a leading provider of cloud-based trade data content solutions for customers to analyze import and export trade activity, for about $52.7 million in cash.