Fascinating op-ed from Freightwaves detailing Amazon’s push into freight forwarding and other logistics services. The author argues that the development of the e-commerce giant’s Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is its supply chain equivalent to Amazon Web Services, which comprises over 85 different services for running applications, storing data and managing networking, computing and developing.
A similarly holistic end-to-end approach can be seen at work in FBA: “Amazon has the ability and …
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