My friend and former colleague @BrianSolis has been pressing a pointed question that cuts across every industry experimenting with AI: Are you building the future or optimizing the past?

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Accuracy is worth much more than any extra effort required to provide accurate invoices! Most carriers don’t think of invoice accuracy as a strategic priority. They should. Because invoice accuracy isn’t a back-office issue—it’s a cash flow issue, a margin issue, and a growth issue. Top Ten Reasons Carriers Should Care About Accurate Invoicing lnkd.in/gGXTz6KC

YES @briansolis! This is especially true when your attention and experience are also both in logistics! 🙂

My friend and former colleague @TheBrianSolis has been pressing a pointed question that cuts across every industry experimenting with AI: Are you building the future or optimizing the past?

BIG news in the ecommerce fulfillment and delivery world today with Stord acquiring AMS Fulfillment in their largest deal yet! Cheers! From PR Newswire: Stord Acquires AMS Fulfillment, Enhancing Its Market-Leading Scale and Network Coverage The company's largest acquisition to date adds over 10 million orders annually as Stord accelerates investment in its network, applied AI, and robotics. Stord, the physical intelligence layer for independent commerce, today announced it has acquired AMS Fulfillment, a third-party logistics provider that processes more than 10 million orders per year for leading premium beauty, wellness, and high-velocity direct-to-consumer brands. The deal is Stord's largest acquisition to date, adding over 1 million square feet across key East and West Coast hubs, including the Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Philadelphia metro areas, and bringing millions of annual orders onto Stord's platform. Stord's global network now spans more than 100 locations. The acquisition is the latest milestone in a year of significant growth for Stord. The company secured a $400 million credit facility led by Citi in October, following a $250 million Series F in May at a $3 billion valuation. With the Series F, Stord launched Stord Labs, its dedicated robotics deployment arm and data foundry. Stord has grown 10x over the past four years. It processes over $15 billion in GMV annually for more than 1,000 brands and reaches roughly one in four U.S. households. Stord's network generates more than 8 billion data points each year, which feed its AI and automation. "In modern commerce, what happens after checkout has become as important to consumer trust as the product itself," said Sean Henry, CEO and Co-Founder of Stord. "We have spent a decade building the leading fulfillment network and end-to-end commerce platform, leveling the playing field for brands with Prime-like speed and reliability. This year, Stord has added the scale, leadership, network infrastructure, capital, and technology to extend that experience. AMS further accelerates our scale, while bringing some of the most discerning brands in the industry onto our platform. In commerce, scale drives lower costs, faster speeds, and more trust with consumers—powering Stord's flywheel. This deal spins our flywheel even faster, and we are entering peak shipping season with more capabilities, intelligence, and momentum than at any point in our history." "Premium brands have always understood that fulfillment is part of the product, and AMS was built to honor that," said Greg Morello, Chief Executive Officer of AMS Fulfillment. "Stord shares that conviction and brings the network, intelligence, technology, automation, and investment to deliver it at a level few to nobody in the industry can match. Our customers get everything that made AMS great, now backed by the scale and technology to take it further."

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Are you ready to power your AI with clean freight invoice data?

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AI promises transformation, but AI is only as effective as the data it learns from. In transportation, that foundation begins with clean, validated freight transactions.

"Supply chains don't need more dashboards. They need decisions. I got into why on the Leaders in Tech and E-Commerce Podcast with Radu Palamariu, plus a few leadership lessons I learned the hard way. Thanks for having me on!" ~ Dave Clark @davehclark of Auger @AugerInc lnkd.in/gnksbQxc

AI can only be as intelligent as the data behind it. While 93% of shippers now view AI capabilities as an important factor when evaluating a 3PL, most logistics providers still face major challenges with data quality, integration & operational readiness.