Walmart Marketplace sellers can now directly access Walmart-negotiated shipping rates within ShipStation’s intelligent shipping and logistics platform, ShipStation said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. This capability is enabled by ShipStation’s new Ship with Walmart solution, which allows Walmart Marketplace sellers to purchase eligible labels, access seller protections and manage Walmart Marketplace orders directly within...
UPS has introduced a suite of supply chain solutions aimed at addressing risk, uncertainty and logistical obstacles. The company’s Secure Commerce offering, announced Wednesday (Sept. 30), is designed to offer “data-driven intelligence,” actionable insights and “proactive risk management” to help reduce threats like fraud, delivery issues or...
In April 1956, a trucking executive named Malcom McLean loaded 58 metal boxes onto a converted tanker in Newark and sent it to Houston. Nobody threw confetti. The longshoremen hated it. But the math was hard to argue with. Loading a ship by hand cost...
A $10 purchase that can wait until tomorrow is one kind of retail transaction. A $10 item that keeps a customer from finishing a repair, taking medicine or charging a device is another. Ultrafast delivery is giving retailers a way to find out what the...
September 21, 2026
Global supply chains have always been the operating system of the modern economy. They determine how food reaches supermarkets, how medicines arrive at hospitals, how factories receive components. They are also the place where economic fragility is most visible, as five years of shocks from pandemic to Red Sea disruptions to geopolitical fragmentation have made […]
August 19, 2026
A distributor can know what inventory it needs to order next week before its financing system knows that the purchase exists. That disconnect becomes more consequential as goods and logistics...
August 12, 2026
Freight brokers have spent years investing in automation, transportation management systems and, more recently, artificial intelligence. Yet many still depend on people making phone calls, chasing drivers, updating shipment records...
June 11, 2026
Ecosystems now scale more efficiently than stores, and that new reality is transforming retail. Amazon announced Wednesday (June 10) that it is expanding its Supply Chain Services platform with a...
October 07, 2026
UPS is hiring 100,000 seasonal employees in hundreds of locations across the United States to meet the demand of the upcoming holiday shipping season, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release. These seasonal employees will join UPS’s global workforce that numbers around 460,000, according to the release. The number of seasonal employees […]
October 06, 2026
Walmart Marketplace sellers can now directly access Walmart-negotiated shipping rates within ShipStation’s intelligent shipping and logistics platform, ShipStation said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. This capability is enabled by ShipStation’s new Ship with Walmart solution, which allows Walmart Marketplace...
September 30, 2026
UPS has introduced a suite of supply chain solutions aimed at addressing risk, uncertainty and logistical obstacles. The company’s Secure Commerce offering, announced Wednesday (Sept. 30), is designed to offer “data-driven intelligence,”...
September 24, 2026
Amazon is making fast, free Prime delivery available beyond Amazon.com, giving merchants another way to use the company’s logistics network to compete for online shoppers, according to a Thursday (Sept....
