Tag: Amazons

It was early 2002, and Mick Mountz’s mind was occupied with one question: Is there a way to make warehouse operations faster? From 1999 to 2001, Mountz was working at Webvan, an online grocery shop, one of many online businesses created during the dot-com bubble and one of its many victims whe...

SCOT is an acronym meaning Supply Chain Optimization Technologies. Probably it is the largest and the most complete application of operational research in the field of logistic. In summer 2017, I discovered that Amazon was hiring operational researchers in Italy. This intrigued me enough to ...

In Cusco, border closure intensified the isolation that Indigenous communities were already experiencing pre-COVID-19. And it also undermined the strength of the Indigenous Task Force, an organization of regional and local Amazonian Indigenous governments, communities, and entities advocating for a ...