Well Made
Erica E. Phillips: Asking the Bajillion Dollar Question – Well Made E60
October 17, 2018 · RSS · Apple Podcasts
Erica E. Phillips covers logistics and global supply chain for The Wall Street Journal, reporting on the latest news affecting retail, manufacturing, and consumer goods. Between ecommerce overhauling supply chain best practices and the escalating US-China trade war, we wanted to talk to her about the effects of ecommerce industry-wide.
On this episode of Well Made, Erica talks about the warehouse labor shortage, the ramifications of Amazon’s $15 minimum wage increase (2:16), and how businesses will stay competitive to fill a projected 425,000 warehouse jobs by 2019 (7:52). Erica shares how fulfillment centers are using emojis, Alexa, and applications to train new hires and boost operational productivity (19:44). Stephan and Erica consider why you’re buying stuff from companies you’ve never heard of (30:03). They dive into the security of supply chains as they discuss the Bloomberg article, "The Big Hack"(35:36). Erica talks about the tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods (45:30), the ways importers are dodging these taxes (47:20), and she questions the macroeconomic effects of the trade war (49:42).
You can follow Erica on Twitter.
Also mentioned on the show:
- Amazon to Raise Its Minimum U.S. Wage to $15 an Hour by Laura Stevens
- Amazon Unleashes More Wage Pressure With Hourly Wage Boost By Ezequiel Minaya and Nina Trentmann
- Retail’s New E-Commerce Headache: Delivering Workers to Warehouses by Erica E. Phillips
- E-Commerce Driving Need for More Warehouse Workers by Erica E. Phillips
- For Warehouse Workers, Technology Starts to Look More Like Home by Erica E. Phillips
- Alexa Heads to the Warehouse by Erica E. Phillips
- Strava’s Fitness Tracker Heat Map Reveals the Location of Military Bases by Andrew Liptak
- Why You’re Buying Products From Companies You’ve Never Heard Of by Christopher Mims
- The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed by Alexis Madrigal
- The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley
- The U.S.-China Trade Battle Spawns a New Era of Tariff Dodges by Chuin-Wei Yap
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You can find this and all future episodes on iTunes, Google Play, and here on the Lumi blog. This episode was edited by Evan Goodchild.
