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Mims, Christopher.
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Amazon.com (Firm)
Delivery of goods.
Shipment of goods.
Business logistics.
Electronic commerce.
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Arriving today : from
factory
to
front
door--why
everything
has
changed
about
how
and
what
we
buy
/ Christopher Mims.
by
Mims, Christopher.
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
Call #:
388.044 M662a
Subjects
Amazon.com (Firm)
Delivery of goods.
Shipment of goods.
Business logistics.
Electronic commerce.
ISBN:
9780062987952 (hc)
Alternate title:
From
factory
to
front
door--why
everything
has
changed
about
how
and
what
we
buy
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover
how
a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a
factory
on the other side of the world to our doorstep. He analyzes the evolving technologies and management strategies necessary to keep the product moving to fulfill consumers’ demand for “arriving today” gratification. Mims reveals a world where the only thing moving faster than goods in an Amazon warehouse is the rate at which an entire industry is being gutted and rebuilt by innovation and mass shifts in human labor practices. He goes behind the scenes to uncover the paradoxes in this shift -- into the world’s busiest port, the cabin of an 18-wheeler, and Amazon’s automated warehouses -- to explore
how
the promise of “arriving today” is fulfilled through a balletic dance between humans and machines. The scope of such large-scale innovation and expended energy is equal parts inspiring, enlightening, and horrifying. As he offers a glimpse of our future, Mims asks us to consider the system’s vulnerability and its resilience, and who shoulders the burden, as
we
hurtle toward a fully automated system -- and
what
it will mean when
we
are there."--Publisher.
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