The Logistics Terminal

Amazon | January 15, 2020

Amazon's third-party sellers can resume sending Prime shipments via FedEx Ground and Home as of Tuesday, according to an email Amazon sent to sellers and shared with Supply Chain Dive. The decision comes after Amazon previously removed the option for sellers to ship Prime orders via FedEx Ground and Home in December 2019, citing late holiday shipments. When Amazon instituted the ban it said it would last, "until the delivery performance of these ship methods improves." However, now...

Nike | March 25, 2020

Shifting to a digital-first distribution strategy, "daily global demand and supply optimization" and tight cost management are major tenets of what Nike executives called their "coronavirus playbook" on a Tuesday earnings call. "Our measures of success in the near-term will be rooted in the amount of inventory on hand relative to the pace of digital demand, store re-openings and traffic patterns," CFO Andy Campion said. Nike saw gross margin decline 80 basis points ...

SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORTATION

Spartan | February 06, 2023

One of the leading sensor software companies, Spartan Radar, recently announced the closing of an initial B round of $17 million headed by 8VC and joined by Microsoft, MaC VC, Gaingels, Prime Movers Lab, and others, which shows that investors are still interested in significant technology and products with clear plans for getting to market, even though the start-up community is facing strong economic headwinds. With the funding, Spartan will be able to bring its most important product, Ago...

SUPPLY CHAIN

GrammaTech | July 01, 2021

GrammaTech, a leading provider of application security testing products and software research services, announced today the release of the latest version of CodeSentry, which reduces software supply chain security risks such as those exploited in recent attacks on downstream users SolarWinds, CodeCov, and other applications. CodeSentry analyzes bought or commercial off-the-shelf software in seconds to identify program components, produce a software bill of materials (SBOM), and discover zero-day...