E-commerce businesses often face difficulties with order fulfillment and profit margins. Selecting the appropriate solution can be challenging. Many business owners seek greater control over their ...

Amazon Supply Chain Services launch signals major shift for freight transportation and logistics The recent announcement by Seattle-based global e-commerce giant Amazon regarding the official opening ...

Dr. Robert C. Lieb is Professor of Supply Chain Management at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

Amazon wants to be everyone's third-party logistics (3PL) provider. On Monday, the e-commerce giant unveiled that it is opening its full portfolio of freight, distribution, fulfillment and parcel ...

Since the onset of the pandemic, Amazon has wielded enormous influence over the leasing market for distribution centers — first through its historic expansion, then through attempts to undo some of ...

Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

“I have argued since 2013 that Amazon was going to become a 3PL,” said Brittain Ladd, a veteran logistics industry consultant who worked at Amazon from April 2016 to March 2017. “When I joined Amazon, ...