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This Week in Logistics News (April 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Employees at an Amazon warehouse on New York’s Staten Island voted late last week to join a union, which is a painful defeat for the e-commerce giant that has aggressively fought unionization efforts in recent years. Amazon workers in Staten Island vote to unionize.

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Top 20 Verified Supply Chain Experts You Can Hire

SCMDOJO

Expertise: Sourcing, Supply Chain Analysis, Logistics & Transportation, Logistics Management Consulting, Freight (Maritime, Land, or Air), Logistics Technology Solutions. Hire any of them as your supply chain consultant and see the difference! Matías Guarello Wilhelmy Location: Chile / Remote Rating: 5/5.0

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- March 17 2023

Supply Chain Matters

According to the SAP announcement , at a purchase price of $18.15 Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that trucking, warehousing and parcel delivery companies cut a combined 16,900 jobs in February, following a decline of 2,200 jobs in January. The tech company reportedly raised $80 million in the transaction.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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Augmented Reality Supply Chain is Here and It’s Going to be Effective

GlobalTranz

In fact, some huge "Futurists" like Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, as well as Brett King are currently writing books on the matter ( Beyond Mobile: Life after Smartphones and Augmented - Life in the Smart Line respectively). For example, the process of item repair and reverse logistics could be made much simpler.

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24 supply chain experts & business leaders reveal the #1 challenge of supply chain management (and how to solve it)

6 River Systems

“They have multi-sourced key commodities or strategic components to reduce their reliance on any one supplier, and they had considered inventory strategy to buffer against supply chain disruption.” Also, globalization presents another hydra-headed challenge for your procurement network.

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Q3 Economic Indicators and Statistics

American Global Logistics

Routine monitoring of key economic and logistics indicators works like a compass. With that follows our quarterly update on key strategic economic and logistics indicators. Supplementing that is the monthly Logistics Managers’ Index (LMI). This report has logistics-specific indicators critical to your business.