Q&A With Logistics Management

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Written By Rick Watson

I spoke with Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman on Amazon’s logistics ambitions, the current supply chain ecosystem, and how peak season 2021 might look.

For other companies, it is hard to look at it and not understand what it means for them, given that they are investing at such different rates, with, UPS, for example, predicting they will invest $4B in capital expenditure in 2021 after investing $4.4B in 2020, whereas Amazon invested $40B in capital expenditure in 2020, over half of that to logistics. It is really unbelievable.

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

https://www.rmwcommerce.com/
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