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Amazon makes Black Friday the 1st Monday in October

The state of the same-day delivery market for Amazon and others

Amazon.com Inc. has moved its Black Friday shopping day up by seven weeks, a sign the mega-retailer wants holiday orders in the pipeline as soon as possible to avoid delivery snafus caused by persistent supply chain bottlenecks.

In an announcement Monday, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) said it was making “Black Friday-worthy” deals available “earlier than ever” across every product category. Black Friday, which historically falls on the day after Thanksgiving, is scheduled this year for Nov. 26. 

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Commentary: Amazon isn’t going into 3PL business; it’s already there

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Is it even possible to have had a business conversation in the past 10 years without talking about Amazon? Certainly in logistics and supply chain, everyone agrees the Amazon Effect has changed things forever. Amazon’s modus operandi: building solutions first for itself and growing these into solutions for its customers. This idea, plus the knowledge of the spaces...

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Commentary: Interoperability should be supply chain tech’s sole tech focus in 2021

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Interoperability is key to a connected supply chain of expert management and consistency, end-to-end visibility and optimization, and interoperability is the necessary goal in logistics technology due to one root cause: a single transportation management system is not suited to serve every party optimally.

If there were a system marketed to serve every party well,...

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DispatchTrack optimizes routing critical to last-mile delivery fulfillment

DispatchTrack optimizes routing critical to last-mile delivery fulfillment (Photo: Shutterstock)

The rise of e-commerce within the retail industry has simultaneously led to an increased focus on the last-mile part of delivery fulfillment as companies are quickly adapting to cater to evolving consumer needs. The “Amazon effect” has pushed consumers to the center of the supply chain, with retailers needing to obsess over delivery speed and honoring narrow delivery windows. 

One of the vital parameters in last-mile delivery is the estimated time of arrival (ETA) calculation, critical in...

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Amazon to continue pouring billions into transport network, CFO says

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Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) late Thursday posted strong third-quarter results, with net revenue of $96.1 billion exceeding the high end of its estimates, and net income of $12.37 a share exceeding analysts’ median estimates by more than $5 a share.

The Seattle-based giant also said that transportation costs accounted for more than half of its $30 billion in capital expenditures for the first nine months. Brian Olsavsky, Amazon’s CFO, said transportation network investments will consume at...

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COVID-19 has managed to wreck the delivery economy

COVID-19 has managed to wreck the delivery economy (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Over the past decade, the last-mile delivery segment has witnessed a gradual shortening of delivery schedules. Primarily led by the “Amazon Effect” and further buoyed by the resulting consumer expectations, last-mile delivery times have come down considerably — from weeklong shipping times to same- and next-day deliveries. 

However, the screeching halt of the economy resulting from the COVID-19 crisis led to predictable chaos within global supply chains. Logistics operations broke down, as...

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