Supply Chain and Logistics

As you probably know, the world woke up Friday morning to a stunning development - The UK had voted to leave the European Union. While many polls had shown the race to be close, nearly every "expert" had predicted that "stay" would eek out a victory.

Last week, Amazon released its earnings report for Q1 2016. Let's just say that afterwards their investors were very happy - the company's sales were up 28% and showed a profit for the fourth straight quarter. Considering its reputation as a free spending, this is quite a feet. It's not that people didn't expect Amazon to have a good quarter, but no one expected it to be this good.

Over the last decade eCommerce has gone from a curiosity that, at points, seemed to be unsustainable, to a monolith that is growing at a faster rate than in-store retail. In fact, according to Forrester eCommerce sales is projected to reach $550 Billion...

We've spent a lot of time lately discussing, dissecting, and analyzing Amazon's changing supply chain over the last few years. With the most recent news of Amazon leasing a fleet of aircraft from Boeing, it's becoming crystal clear what their intentions are.

It sounds like something straight out of a James Bond movie: A secret operation called “Dragon Boat,” kept under wraps from the public. Recently we wrote about Amazon’s purchase of the French shipping company Colis Prive’...

It's a relatively well know fact that Amazon wants to own the entire supply chain - in fact, in many places they already are. But Amazon's purchase of the remaining 75% that it didn't already own in the French parcel service Colis Prive' is different.