E-Commerce/Omni-Channel

Amazon Boosted Workforce by 75% During Covid — And It’s Still Hiring

November 4, 2021

Amazon’s global workforce surged almost 75% during the pandemic to help keep up with torrid demand, and the e-commerce giant is still facing shortages of workers, particularly in the U.S.

Is the Retail Apocalypse Coming for E-Commerce?

November 4, 2021

Jim Inglis, SCB Contributor

Brick-and-mortar stores are alive and well, but a cloud hangs over many of the online retailers that don't have a physical presence.

Amazon’s Van-Buying Spree Delivers a Gift to Auto Industry

Amazon Says Labor, Fulfillment Costs May Wipe Out Holiday Profit

October 29, 2021

Bloomberg

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.

Amazon Touts Drivers, Warehouses as Salve to Supply Chain Woes

October 26, 2021

Bloomberg

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 haulage truck transports a shipping container.

Biden Races Clock But Holds Few Tools in Supply Chain Crisis

October 22, 2021

Bloomberg

While Republicans point to the supply chain as further evidence the president is mismanaging the economy, the issues are deep-rooted.

Long Beach Port Chief: ‘Shop Early’ as Snarls to Last All Year

October 21, 2021

Bloomberg

Americans should buy their holiday gifts early this year, as the container glut plaguing ports and the supply chain will persist through at least year-end, the head of California’s Port of Long Beach said.

U.S. Online Holiday Sales Seen Growing at Slower Pace This Year

October 21, 2021

Bloomberg

This holiday season, e-commerce growth is expected to be the lowest in at least six years as comparisons get tougher amid widespread adoption of online shopping and consumers’ eagerness to return to stores.

Alphabet to Test Drone Delivery for Walgreens in Texas

October 21, 2021

Bloomberg

Alphabet Inc.’s drone-delivery operation is expanding to a Walgreens in suburban Dallas where it will make airborne deliveries of toothpaste and other goods to residents of nearby towns.

Data Mining, AI: How Industrial Brands Can Keep Up With E-Commerce

October 21, 2021

Rohan Thambrahalli, SCB Contributor

The move to online sales exposes many small to mid-sized retailers to potentially massive accounting errors, creating a snowball effect in terms of profit loss.

Three Lessons for Retailers in a Year of Disruption

October 20, 2021

Krish Iyer, SCB Contributor

It’s time that retailers shifted from a reactive to a proactive strategy, one that anticipates and accounts for all future disruptions.

E-Commerce/Omni-Channel

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the e-commerce/omnichannel industry — which consists of companies engaged in internet retailing, including those with auxiliary brick-and-mortar stores. Learn how e-commerce/omnichannel companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.