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Robots Edge Closer to Unloading Trucks in Amazon-Era Milestone

As FedEx and UPS beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon, they’ve been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and unloading trucks.

Source: Bloomberg

Podcast | Will E-Commerce Logistics Cause Urban Gridlock?

The growing popularity of the urban lifestyle is making new demands on e-tailers – and raising the possibility of gridlock for logistics providers.

0503 Will E Commerce Logistics Cause

U.K. Retailers Face Gloomy Outlook Amid Brexit Confidence Hit

Retailers are bearing the brunt of the U.K.’s economic uncertainty as households pulled back from making big purchases, recent surveys indicated.

0502 Uk Retailers Face Gloomy

Ford Partners With Amazon to Enable Package Deliveries to Trunks

Ford follows General Motors and Volvo in joining with the online retailing giant to offer Key by Amazon In-Car delivery service.

0501 Ford Partners With Amazon

Amazon One-Day Shipping Is a Tough Perk to Match

Amazon’s announcement registered loudly in the halls of its competitors: e-commerce companies and old-line retailers that will now have to start investing just as furiously to keep up.

An Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center. Photo: Shutterstock.

Inventory Burn From Caterpillar to Coca-Cola Set to Hit U.S. GDP

U.S. companies including Coca-Cola Co., Whirlpool Corp. and Caterpillar Inc. confront the need to reverse bloated stockpiles of products after inventories surged across corporate America.

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Amazon Pledges One-Day Delivery for Top Clients in U.S.

Amazon.com Inc. will spend $800m in the current quarter to reduce delivery times for top customers to one day from two, trying to revive its main e-commerce franchise and ward off greater competition.

Source: Bloomberg

Walmart Creates an Angus Beef Supply Chain, Bypassing Tyson

The nation’s biggest grocer has partnered with a Texas cattle rancher and other industry-related businesses to provide a steady supply of no-hormone-added Angus beef to 500 of its U.S. stores.

0425 Walmart Createsan Angus

Global Supply Chain Analytics eBook: You Can't Manage What You Can't See

Global Supply Chain Analytics eBook: You Can't Manage What You Can't See

Amazon's Merchants Feel Pain of Market Clout That Bezos Disputes

Amazon has evolved from partner to competitor.

0418 Amazons Merchants Feel Pain

Bulging Stockpiles Will Weigh on U.S. Growth Throughout 2019

The rising stockpiles of cars, furniture and other goods that helped the U.S. economy boom in 2018 are now poised to cause a hangover this year.

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Kenya Fresh Produce Platform Aims to Disrupt African Retail

In the country’s fragmented retail market, where 90 percent of food is sold through informal outlets, tech startup Twiga Foods is trying to create efficiency to lower food prices.

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