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How the Rapid Growth of Ecommerce Is Driving Changes in Logistics and Transportation Management

Strategy Driven

However, for e-commerce businesses, shipping parcels to different locations safely and punctually requires complex planning. With the omnichannel approach to e-commerce gaining ground, there is a major need for distribution centers to be located near urban markets. Operation Costs Have to Be Reduced.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

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