The digital-focused operator is buying Shopify’s logistics business, including the Deliverr technology platform and dozens of warehouses and sorting centers.
Business customers are now behaving much like consumers, with procurement professionals becoming accustomed to the “Amazon experience” they get when they order merchandise for the home.
All of the problems experienced in e-commerce sales during the pandemic are continuing, says Paul Ambruso, VP and general manager, mobile robotics, at Berkshire Grey. The challenges, however, are opportunities for technology vendors.
Over the past three years, retailers have been wrestling with product shortages and increasingly painful out-of-stock issues. More recently, however, they’ve been struggling with overstocks.
The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the retail industry — which comprises companies that operate physical or internet stores with diversified product lines. Learn how pharmaceutical and biotech 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.
Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter!
Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.