A US Foods seller used to spend up to four hours preparing a proposal for a prospective restaurant, reading menus, spreadsheets and handwritten notes. A generative artificial intelligence tool now does that work, Amazon Web Services said in a case study. AWS also claimed a...
UPS is crediting its healthcare and small business customers with an uptick in revenue as it prepares for a surge in holiday eCommerce demand. The delivery giant reported quarterly earnings Tuesday (Oct. 27) showing a 6.7% in overall revenue, driven by an 18.2% increase in...
Stord has acquired third-party logistics provider AMS Fulfillment, adding more than 1 million square feet of warehouse space and expanding its capacity to handle orders for consumer brands as it invests in artificial intelligence and robotics. The Atlanta-based commerce technology company announced the acquisition Wednesday...
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...
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 28, 2026
FedEx is using its digital insights to unlock new markets, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 28) press release detailing its results for the quarter ended Sept. 30. The company is leveraging its data to offer visibility and supply chain management tools to customers, according to a third quarter earnings presentation released Wednesday. “Building […]
October 27, 2026
UPS is crediting its healthcare and small business customers with an uptick in revenue as it prepares for a surge in holiday eCommerce demand. The delivery giant reported quarterly earnings...
October 22, 2026
Stord has acquired third-party logistics provider AMS Fulfillment, adding more than 1 million square feet of warehouse space and expanding its capacity to handle orders for consumer brands as it...
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...
