LEGACY Supply Chain Services

2015 was a record year for job creation by Amazon in Europe with over 10,000 new permanent jobs, bringing the company’s total European workforce to over 40,000 - Amazon has invested over €15 billion in Europe since 2010 on infrastructure and operations and fulfillment.

Besides the difficulty of finding skilled leadership in a constantly evolving, highly technical, and increasingly global environment, supply chain faces an additional sensitivity to issues of attracting and retaining talent.

The realities of getting your inventory from point A to point B include numerous potential risks and unknown variables.

Since 2010, more than 24 enclosed shopping malls have closed, and 60 more are on the brink of closure, about 15% of U.S. malls will fail or be converted into non-retail space within the next 10 years.

Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive officer at Salesforce, explains what goes into being a great chief executive officer, examines the performance of Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer, and CEO pay versus performance.

Why? Because it could be the best hiring decision you and your company ever makes.

Amazon crushed its earnings with a recorded unexpected profit of $79 million, twice in a row so far, and made CEO Jeff Bezos $5 billion richer and the third richest man in the U.S.

Colin Sebastian at RW Baird published a note yesterday highlighting the opportunity for Amazon to begin to offer third-party logistics services in a similar way that it offers Web Services.

On the heels of announcing it plans to acquire freight transportation and logistics services provider Con-way Inc. for $3 billion, XPO Logistics may be considering selling off Con-way Truckload, the company’s truckload arm.

This year, Gartner unveiled the 11th annual global Supply Chain Top 25, identifying global supply chain leaders and highlighting their best practices for heads of supply chain and strategy organizations, this article discusses the insights and trends we’ve seen this year from the leaders.

Three key trends stand out this year for leaders that are accelerating their capabilities and further separating them from the rest of the pack.

If Amazon’s workplace culture is despotic as the NY Times article said it is, then their product and the resulting Customer Experience would be, too, for my part, I don’t believe it’s as bad as all that.

Getting to the answer requires retailers to take a broader, more strategic perspective of supply chain management, one that goes beyond defining supply chain excellence only in terms of cost reduction and control.

As drivers, shippers and airlines continue to enjoy lower fuel prices, the oil industry is responding to much lower profits with sharp cuts in spending and employment that are hurting economic growth.

Between a consumer-led revolution, competition from Amazon, international sourcing, and port shutdowns, retail supply chains are challenged like never before - a new e-book and self-assessment tool offer benchmarks and insights into how supply chains can indeed keep up with the retail consumer.