Amazon will have FedEx deliver large packages to the retailer’s customers for the first time in six years. The companies reached a multiyear agreement that renews a relationship that ended in 2019, Bloomberg reported Monday (May 12). The deal follows a January announcement by UPS...
The B2B landscape is built on sales cycles. But as trade dynamics shift the operating landscape, buyers and suppliers alike are finding themselves forced to shift their tactics. What was once a world powered by traditional sales reps, trade shows and negotiated contracts is rapidly...
Criminals are reportedly exploiting supply chain technology to steal truckloads of products. They are using online platforms to facilitate “strategic theft,” a form of cargo theft in which fraudsters impersonate legitimate companies, book shipments and trick shippers, brokers or carriers into delivering cargo and/or payments to them instead...
Logistics is having its moment in the limelight. What was once an invisible force is now becoming an essential, and increasingly visible, pillar of global commerce. It’s a silent but powerful backbone that few consumers think about, but every successful company depends upon it. “Whether...
May 06, 2025
Retailers and brands in the United States and abroad are bracing for a turbulent back half of 2025. Tariffs and their escalating impact on everything from sourcing to pricing strategy to consumer behavior are to blame. “More expensive is where this is headed,” Kristin Savilia, CEO at Joor, a digital wholesale platform connecting over 14,000 […]
April 25, 2025
As the digital and physical worlds of commerce continue to intertwine, Amazon and Walmart are reinventing themselves at a blistering pace. What was once a head-to-head contest for online supremacy...
April 22, 2025
Many United States businesses involved in global trade are experiencing a sea of change and a sea change. The President Donald Trump administration doubled down on tariffs with its reinstated...
April 18, 2025
In environments like today’s, reactive operations might as well be useless ones. By the time they take effect, it is often already too late. As the news this week from both...
May 15, 2025
Last month, Chinese tech conglomerate Alibaba debuted a fast delivery service it dubbed “instant commerce.” On the company’s earnings call Thursday (May 15), analysts wanted to know: Why now, especially given recent intensification in the food delivery space? Fan Jiang, CEO of the company’s eCommerce segment, argued the company has some notable advantages, having built […]
May 12, 2025
Amazon will have FedEx deliver large packages to the retailer’s customers for the first time in six years. The companies reached a multiyear agreement that renews a relationship that ended...
May 09, 2025
Criminals are reportedly exploiting supply chain technology to steal truckloads of products. They are using online platforms to facilitate “strategic theft,” a form of cargo theft in which fraudsters impersonate legitimate companies,...
May 07, 2025
Amazon debuted Vulcan, a fulfillment center robot with a sense of touch, according to a Wednesday (May 7) blog post. The average robot is “numb and dumb,” particularly those operating...
