I Want It Now: E-Commerce, Supply Chains and Transportation
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"I Want It Now: E-Commerce, Supply Chains and Transportation" - Featuring Benjamin D. Conwell, Senior Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield The explosion of eCommerce is driving drastically changed customer expectations globally which, in turn, is causing some of the most significant disruption in retail, transportation and international trade we’ve seen in the last fifty years. Amazon’s dominance and pace of innovation increasingly demand players aspiring to succeed in the new world order constantly reinvent the way they operate. Players in this space have little choice. And little time.
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