Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.25
July 22, 2020
…e-commerce fulfillment services targeted at the small- to mid-sized (SMB) business community. As with most providers of third-party services, UPS’s e-commerce fulfillment operations are balancing growth and transformation to adapt to a rapidly changing market. And while it’s simple to attribute the changes to the pandemic, many of the trends impacting e-commerce fulfillment were already in motion before COVID-19. “When it comes to e-commerce, we expect to see a strong shift from our B2B business to more B2C business,” says Philippe Gilbert, who took the reins as president of the SCS organization in 2019. “We have been pushed for more…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.27
October 11, 2017
…that level, but it prevents small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from getting into the automation game. Galluzzo and his team set out to find ways to reduce a customer’s risk when betting on an investment that may or may not stand the test of time. IAM now sells its AMRs through the traditional model but also developed an RaaS model to reduce barriers to entry. Robotics as a service (RaaS) enables small- and medium-sized businesses to automate without big upfront costs. “There’s a lot of creativity happening now around business models, and we’re not the only ones exploring RaaS,” Galluzzo…
