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Jason Murray Jason Murray / May 2, 2022 / Company

How Retailers Can Win Back Leverage in the Great Carrier War

Consider a three-sided relationship between retailers, carriers, and technology providers.
Jason Murray Jason Murray / April 14, 2022 / Company

Shipium Makes Logistics Series a History Raising $27.5M

Today we are announcing some historical news. Our latest funding round, a $27.5M Series A led by Insight Partners, is the largest venture-backed Series A in logistics SaaS history.
Jason Murray Jason Murray / February 14, 2022 / Company

Supply Chain Technology and Retail Technology are Merging

The NRF Big Show in NYC was an interesting experience. While attendance was obviously down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the spirit was still there, and intelligence could still be gathered. In particular, buzz around sessions, speakers, and overall floor conversations can tell you a lot about where the industry of Retail Technology is going.
Kris Gösser Kris Gösser / October 14, 2021 / Company

AI in Supply Chain: Shipium at TransformX Panel

On October 7th, CEO Jason Murray got a chance to speak on a panel discussion at the annual TransformX event put on my ScaleAI.
Jason Murray Jason Murray / June 28, 2021 / Company

Freight Waves TV Interview: Simplifying Logistics

Last week I had a chance to sit down with Andrew Cox from FreightWaves TV to chat about Amazon's early days and what learnings from that period can be applied today for everyone else who isn't Amazon.
Kris Gösser Kris Gösser / June 21, 2021 / Company

Supporting the Women In Retail (WIR) June Virtual Exchange

We are big fans of the community building efforts by Diane, Kristina, and the rest of the Women In Retail organization, which is why we were excited by the opportunity to support them by sponsoring their June Virtual Exchange.
Jason Murray Jason Murray / June 9, 2021 / Company

Shipium Raises $8 Million in Seed Funding

Shipium is proving to be an idea that ecommerce companies want. Due to the explosion of ecommerce over the last year, it's proving to be an idea they need, too.
Jason Murray Jason Murray / May 10, 2021 / Company

Pull vs. Push: How Amazon Revolutionized Its Supply Chain

Ecommerce operators have a bad habit of falling into "supply-side" thinking. Forecasting demand has been figured out by someone else, they think, with merchandise ordered and ready to be placed into fulfillment centers. Their job then becomes a linear planning exercise going from start to finish in increasingly smaller units. The merchandise goes from container to truck to pallet to box to door step. This is push-based thinking. It's the idea that the job is efficiently and effectively pushing the flow of goods from beginning to end. One of the most powerful ideas both Amazon and Zulily adopted was the idea of pull-based supply chain thinking. Start from the end goal, and work backwards. Efficient and effective planning in reverse order is where actual stepwise optimizations can be found.
Jason Murray Jason Murray / February 11, 2021 / Company

Constrain on speed, optimize for cost

Ecommerce fulfillment is ultimately a collection of decisions being made. Some are made simultaneously while others are made sequentially. Almost all are logical decisions. If you want to improve your ecommerce fulfillment process, you need to make better decisions. But what constitutes a "better" decision?
Jason Murray Jason Murray / November 26, 2020 / Company

Talking the Magic of Logistics on Future Commerce Podcast

Sometimes it seems like the behemoths of Amazon and Walmart are using black magic to promote free and fast shipping. But it's not magic. It's mostly sophisticated software combined with learned principles.