With a near-record 75 container ships waiting outside the U.S.’s largest port complex in southern California, unionized dockworkers have strengthened their indispensable role in the supply chain.

Amazon warned Wall Street that it will have to spend billions of dollars hiring workers, paying them more and even speeding partly empty trucks to their destinations to ensure that supply chain snarls don’t derail the holiday shopping season.

A requirement for federal workers and contractors to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 — which would affect a number of transportation companies that work with the U.S. government — won’t exacerbate a backlog of shipping and deliveries, according to the Biden administration.

Amazon.com is talking up the size of its delivery operation to ease public alarm that a supply chain crisis could strangle holiday shopping.

A skilled servicer can help companies increase satisfaction, organizational bandwidth and brand reputation by ensuring prompt administration in times of peak demand.

The research company identified three main actions that supply chain leaders can take to improve today’s most pressing issues: disruption, climate change and employee fatigue.

Employers are in desperate need of workers to help streamline order requests, secure new business and increase overall revenue.

Technology can help mitigate some of the most common human errors in supply chain management.