News / Amazon: 'find the best people for logistics outside logistics'

15/05/2017

Logistics operators should recruit from outside if they want to keep pace with the rapidly changing face of their industry, due to digitisation.

In a panel discussion at last week’s Transport Logistics show in Munich, Bernd Schwenger, director of Amazon Logistics and general manager of Amazon ...

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Paul Newman
May 15, 2017 at 2:45 pm
What Flexport is claiming with their cross docking operations to re-route single pallets is not new. I first saw such an operation with a facility to cross dock 100 containers simultaneously in LA over 30 years ago

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- Elaine Marsh
  May 15, 2017 at 3:52 pm
  This happens every single day in logistics. Flexport is good at hype. But you have to be pretty dense to listen to Ryan and think “OMG, these guys are really doing something different”. No, they are not. A fancy GUI with the same industry hacks behind the scenes doing what we’ve been doing in this industry for decades. Because PHYSICALLY the same exact thing has to happen. The fact it is communicated in different ways doesn’t change anything to be honest.
  
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  - Kevin Liu
    May 16, 2017 at 3:58 pm
    Ho ho ho ho ho, if only you knew how much goes on in the software behind the UI…
    
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    - Elaine Marsh
      May 16, 2017 at 10:56 pm
      Smoke n’ mirrors Mr. Software Engineer…. smoke…and…mirrors.
      
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Elaine Marsh
May 15, 2017 at 3:47 pm
Fact — Flexport hired a dozen or so hacks from Expeditors in San Francisco. Fact # 2— Flexport was a proverbial s*** show and the smart people have left.

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Nick Coverdale
May 15, 2017 at 4:09 pm
We don’t employ logistics people for logistics is like saying we opened an abattoir and employ hairdressers,

As to last paragraph of Flexport , re directing cargo while it’s on route is something
new?? ,come lets get serious people ,re consolidating (crossdocking) cargo in HKG started to decline 20 years ago because to expensive for companies who want to be profitable or those don’t well carry on .

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mike harrison
May 17, 2017 at 10:22 am
Elaine Marsh said it all, smoke and mirrors.
Logistics is Logistics..

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Kristin White
July 21, 2017 at 6:35 am
Elaine- you are 100% correct. As a former Flexport employee, I can confirm. CEO/COO brain washes the “smart college graduates” to believe they’re inventing and disrupting but it’s only because they’ve never seen it. Who believes? People who don’t know logistics, start ups supporting each other OR those who believe the UI is attractive (it is) and peel a handful of containers, but inside is nothing more or less than a typical FF. Calling to check freight arrival etc. Why do you think they hire so many people? All smoke n mirrors.

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