E-commerce helps Dawn Foods connect with customers | Ingram Micro to offer expanded migration services via AWS | A new round of job cuts to shrink Amazon's corporate staff
Dawn Foods' digital journey, which includes investing in its e-commerce platform, is part of the bakery ingredients company's effort to simplify things for customers and drive profit and engagement, says Chief Digital Officer Bob Howland. "The shift away from monoliths to a more modern, composable architecture really liberates e-commerce leaders and allows us to create e-commerce platforms which we can control, and which can really be nimble in responding to customer and market dynamics," Howland says.
Ingram Micro has achieved Amazon Web Services Migration Competency, which allows the distributor to offer tools, education and support for customers' cloud migration strategies, said Duncan Robinson, Ingram Micro's vice president for growth partnerships and cloud. Global revenue for enterprise applications is expected to increase to more than $385 billion by 2026 from $280 billion last year, most of which will come from public cloud investments, according to analyst firm IDC.
Amazon has announced it will cut 9,000 jobs in the coming weeks, with most positions being in human resources, cloud computing, advertising and Twitch streaming. The announcement follows 18,000 jobs being axed at the beginning of the year, with the combined job cuts affecting just under 2% of the company's workforce.
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Warehouse management systems can help distributors manage e-fulfillment operations and materials handling automation, but upfront costs can be a hindrance. One solution is to move toward a subscription-driven cloud-based system that covers implementation and training and can better meet organizations' long-term needs, Supply Chain Digest's editors write.
Trucking companies are trying to boost driver recruitment and retention by offering performance-based pay that's tied to output from in-cab technologies that monitor factors such as safety and fuel economy. "If we can all align applications and software and gamification toward positive metrics that reward results, that tends to lead to a highly effective population of drivers," says Darrin Demchuk, Platform Science's vice president of fleet solutions.
If you keep getting passed over for a promotion, it may be because you have an overly friendly, overly detailed or overly indecisive leadership style, writes executive coach Joel Garfinkle. "If you're afraid of overstepping your bounds, plan to have some real conversations with your boss about the reach of your authority, and their expectations on your role in making choices," Garfinkle writes.
Approach one-on-one meetings with your direct reports not just with an action agenda, but with an emotional one, seeking to connect with them on a personal and professional level, writes Payal Nanjiani, CEO and founder of the Payal Nanjiani Leadership company. "Your people must feel like they're heard and supported every week. Make it about them and their needs," Nanjiani writes.
