Here’s What Shipping Companies are Doing to Manage the Shorter Holiday Season Delivery Window
This year’s holiday season will see five fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, meaning less time to prepare and clear out any backlog of orders between holidays.
Here’s a glimpse at what some shipping companies are doing to manage this.
Amazon Set to Offer Supply Chain as a Service
Just like their Cloud services, Amazon announced they will offer automated supply chain services to merchants, similar to a Supply Chain as a Service type model.
Another Canadian Workers Strike Threatens Supply Chains
As if a potential strikes at their ports, railways, air cargo weren’t enough, Canada’s grain workers are on strike.
The strike will affect the movement of Canadian grain and could potentially lead to a loss of $35M in lost exports per day.
