The company said it is exiting meal deliveries as well as a service providing bulk doorstep deliveries of packaged consumer goods to small businesses.

Itamar Zur, co-founder and CEO of next-generation shipping platform Veho, wants e-tailers to fundamentally reframe how they think about the returns side of the business.

Last-mile logistics is more complicated than first- or middle-mile, and it's changing all the time, says Akash Agarwal, co-founder and chief business officer at Beans.ai.

As online orders begin to plateau or even drop, those providers who ramped up for the pandemic are well-prepared for direct-to-consumer logistics, says Mike McComb, senior vice president of global e-commerce for Pitney Bowes.

Online orders skyrocketed during the pandemic, and many third-party logistics providers were not ready, according to Robert Liva, senior channel manager at Pierbridge and Martin Hespeler, vice president of sales at Microlistics, both adjacent technologies at Wisetech Global Group.

If Amazon shipments arrive in two days or less for free, why can’t B2B purchases do the same? 

With the continuing surge in e-commerce, rapid fulfillment and distribution are becoming key to meeting demand and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Matt Fain, chief executive officer and co-founder of Popcapacity, describes the technologies needed to eliminate supply chain pain points.