Amazon has purchased thousands of truck trailers to ship merchandise between its distribution facilities. This initiative shows Amazon's increasing interest in taking control of transporting its own merchandise. The company announced this move last Friday as the latest sign of the e-commerce giant expanding its logistics operations in-house.

1. Amazon Rolls Out
Branded Truck Trailers
for Inventory Management
Amazon purchased thousands of truck
trailers to ship merchandise between
distribution facilities, the company
announced last Friday. For Amazon, the
initiative is the latest sign of the e-
commerce giant’s increasing interest in
taking transportation of its merchandise
into its own hands.
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The Future Internet of Everything
Warehouse
Cisco says the warehouse of the future will focus on automation
and integration across the supply chain, and that doesn’t
necessarily mean automated materials handling. Companies feel
that what they needed was intelligent software, software that
could give him more real-time information about more aspects
of the operations than he was getting right now.
The idea has supply chain implications - if trucks, conveyors, lift
trucks, packages, pallets, people, suppliers and customers can all
communicate, there’s an opportunity to rethink the way we do
things. For that reason, Cisco is in the process of remaking its
own supply chain processes for the Internet of Everything,
Warehouse Capacity
Economics and Trends
Organizations deal everyday with
seasonal swings, return issues, opening
new markets and rolling out new
products. Being responsive means
addressing the dynamics that cause
inventory variability. Those solutions
must be scalable, secure, complement
existing structures and deliver cost
efficiencies. Nowhere is this more
evident than in the warehouse. These
increased demands are driving the
growing practice of On-Demand
Warehousing. On-Demand
Warehousing is a spot market
companion to the existing “long
market” built on warehouse leases
and/or property ownership.
It is analogous to adding
outsourced warehouse labor