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This Week in Logistics News (October 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon introducing warehouse overhaul with robotics Climate change stress test coming for Amazon sellers and suppliers US will tighten curbs on China’s access to advanced chip tech S. The new program reduces the time it takes to fulfill an order by up to 25%, the company said, and it can identify and store inventory up to 75% faster.

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Justifying Investments in Risk Avoidance

MIT Supply Chain

I gave the example of Sun Microsystems, which suffered a spate of freight thefts in Europe. Consider, for example, Amazon’s drive to build more warehouses throughout the US. The strategy incurs higher costs in terms of capital expenditures, labor, and inventory, but the payoff is superior service.