Reference no: EM133028719
Industry: E-commerce Company: Amazon.com, Inc
The trend followed by Amazon in logistics in the supply chain:
Warehouse robotics.
Following are opportunities and threats in implementing 'Warehouse robotics' in Amazon's warehouses:
Opportunities:
1) Repetitive tasks used to streamline processes:
2) Easy to schedule:
3) Less Workplace Injury:
Threats:
1) Elimination of Worker Positions:
2) Lack of flexibility or originality.
3) Investment of Significant Amounts of Money
Taking the above information into consideration, introduce two specific strategies and/or solutions to maximize the benefits and minimize the damages from this trend for the selected industry:
You are expected to come up with an idea of how the selected industry/business sector should revise their strategies in order to maximize their benefits from the potential opportunities identified before (resulted by the selected emerging trend) and minimize the negative impacts of the identified threats (resulted by the selected emerging trend). Your idea must include minimum of 2 and maximum of 4 proposed strategies/plans/directions to be followed by the industry/business sector.