Breaking Supply Chain News- Amazon Senior Executive Resigns
The Supply Chain Matters blog shares breaking news regarding the unexpected resignation of Amazon’s head of Consumer Business, Dave Clark.
by Bob Ferrari 
Amazon Workers in New York Facility Vote to Join Labor Union
Supply Chain Matters highlights a breaking news development concerning online retail platform provider Amazon
by Bob Ferrari 
Amazon Acquisition of Whole Foods One Year Later- Augmenting Food Supply Network and Distribution Capabilities
It has been a little over one-year since Amazon disrupted the natural and fresh food industry with its acquisition of Whole Foods. While many current one-year hence commentaries focus mainly on online customer impacts, Supply Chain Matters is of the belief that the evolving strategy thus far is one of augmenting supply network and distribution capabilities.
by Barry Belotti
Amazon Initiates Stricter Inventory Management Policies for Hosted Merchants
As of the beginning of this month, Amazon has become to enforce inventory management policies for third-party sellers, which will have implications as to how these sellers manage their overall inventories.
by Barry Belotti
Report Of Labor Violation Conditions at Factory Producing Amazon Branded Products
Reuters reports that a major U.S. based labor watchdog group, China Labor Watch, criticized both Amazon and global contract manufacturing services provider Foxconn over what is described as harsh working conditions at an assembly factory in China.
by Barry Belotti
President Trump's Attacks on Amazon- Leadership is Better Channeled on Fixing U.S. Postal Service Financial Challenges
President Trump has again turned to Twitter, a preferred outreach medium to repeatedly rant on Amazon, and how the online retail giant is ripping off the United States Postal Service (USPS). Supply Chain Matters humbly suggests that the President channel his energies in a far more appropriate direction, providing the leadership and influence to help the USPS to become a modern and competitive agency for this new era of the online economy.
by Barry Belotti
President Trump’s Attacks on Amazon- Leadership is Better Channeled on Fixing U.S. Postal Service Financial Challenges
President Trump has again turned to Twitter, a preferred outreach medium to repeatedly rant on Amazon, and how the online retail giant is ripping off the United States Postal Service (USPS). Supply Chain Matters humbly suggests that the President channel his energies in a far more appropriate direction, providing the leadership and influence to help the USPS to become a modern and competitive agency for this new era of the online economy.
by Barry Belotti
New Information Disclosed Relative to Whole Foods and Amazon Retail Integration
Some new significant information has become known regarding the Amazon and Whole Foods integration plans, information that provides additional indicators of the integrated retail strategy that will unfold over the coming months.
by Barry Belotti
Additional Perspective on Amazon-Whole Foods Acquisition Implications
Regarding the announcement from Amazon on the online retailer’s intent to acquire Whole Foods, Supply Chain Matters committed to feature a number of follow-up opinion commentaries, both from this blog as well as external sources. We call attention to a report published by Supermarket News that does a great job of uncovering impacts to branded natural foods and organic suppliers that may or may not benefit from Amazon’s subsequent integration strategies.
by Barry Belotti
The Supply Chain Matters Blog Returns
The Supply Chain Matters blog has returned from summer vacation and industry supply chain developments continued during our time away.
by Barry Belotti
Scoring Supply Chain Matters 2016 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Part Five
by Barry Belotti
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