Category: Shipping & Fulfillment

August 17, 2022

For businesses selling on Amazon, using the company’s fulfillment services instead of other carriers will no longer shield them from added peak season shipping costs. As Amazon noted in its announcement, the fee is similar to the surcharges or price […]

July 1, 2022

After nearly doubling its operations capacity over the past two years to keep up with a pandemic-fueled demand surge, Amazon is pumping the brakes on its expansion plans. CFO Brian Olsavsky said in April that the company built more fulfillment […]

June 3, 2022

Walmart plans to build four new high-tech fulfillment centers over the next three years that would include automation, machine learning and robotics while also collectively employing more than 4,000 new workers. The first “next-generation” facility is scheduled to open this […]

May 10, 2022

A new report issued today by Chicago-based Bringg, a data-led delivery and fulfillment cloud platform provider highlighted how logistics services providers are approaching their last-mile operations, with a focus on things like: growth strategy, bridging the gap between growing delivery […]

April 14, 2022

Logistics industry researchers have estimated that the supply chain management software market will grow by $2.92 billion from 2021 to 2025. Moreover, software solutions will change not only in quantity but also in quality. Applications for warehouse, freight transportation, and […]

April 13, 2022

The March inflation figure issued yesterday in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed yet another new high, rising 8.5% annually, and marking its biggest percentage gain going back to 1981. If this trend had not […]

March 8, 2022

The US Postal Service said it jumped into action after a tornado destroyed an Amazon facility in Illinois and killed six workers inside in December. The night of the tornado, a USPS accounts director reached out to Amazon, and the […]

March 1, 2022

The $46 billion less-than-truckload (LTL) market, plagued by high fixed costs and sometimes awkward labor relations, has rebounded to become a cash cow over the past two years. “Customers are afraid to change carriers today for fear of not having […]

February 21, 2022

Amazon is offering new discounts on shipping for sellers who purchase shipping labels through its Buy Shipping program. The company announced the program today (Monday), and sellers are attempting to learn more about when the new discount applies. Amazon wrote, […]

February 15, 2022

The global supply chain is in turmoil, a situation that has spelled disaster for a wide variety of industries. Grocery store shelves remain unstocked, high-demand products are off shelves, and customers are hoarding what they can get in a frenzy, […]

January 20, 2022

In all supply chain and logistics circles these days, it seems that the topic at, or near, the top of the list for most industry taking points these days is inflation, and for good reason. Those reasons are highlighted based […]

January 18, 2022

Amazon warned sellers enrolled in its FBA program not to send canceled or deleted shipments to its fulfillment centers. Not only might it reject such shipments, but it warned, “Your ability to send us additional shipments may also be suspended.” […]

January 11, 2022

When things are running smoothly, all eyes are generally on eking additional efficiency, throughput and profitability out of those operations. For example, not long ago many retailers were focused on optimizing their supply chains, squeezing more out of interconnected networks […]

January 10, 2022

Lift truck telematics has made its mark by turning lift trucks into connected assets. The core features of these solutions include impact monitoring and providing a digital record of safety incidents. The systems digitize safety checklists, rather than forcing operators […]

December 27, 2021

Shippers may expect a second year of big increases in 2022 for ocean contract rates, says Philip Damas director and head of the supply chain advisors practice at London-based Drewry. “Challenges of securing ocean capacity amid current logjams and prospects […]

December 22, 2021

United States rail carload and intermodal volumes, for the week of December 18 were mixed, according to data issued this week by the Association of American Railroads (AAR). Rail carloads—at 234,704—are up 1.7% annually, trailing the weeks ending December 11 […]

December 14, 2021

Taking steps to expand its e-fulfillment network, Miami-based freight transportation and logistics services provider Ryder System Inc. said earlier this week it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Industry City, Calif.-based omnichannel fulfillment and logistics services provider. Ryder officials […]

December 13, 2021

UPS Principal Scientist Ranganath Nuggehalli discussed holiday supply chain challenges in a new interview released by INFORMS. He also discusses what the shipping carrier is doing to anticipate and respond to the challenges. Nuggehalli said UPS processes about 20 million […]

December 10, 2021

In its announcement, Walmart noted new research from HSBC and the Boston Consulting Group, which found that as much as half of the $100 trillion of investment by 2050 to achieve net-zero across global supply chains needs to come from […]

December 3, 2021

The pandemic created huge shifts in demand by both businesses and consumers, resulting in unprecedented supply chain disruption that hit technology manufacturers particularly hard. The sharp decline in demand experienced by the automotive industry, followed by a sooner-than expected recovery, […]