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Productive Efficiency: How Amazon gets packages to you

Geoff Riley

3rd December 2015

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Amazon's investment in robots to improve productive efficiency at many of their hub distribution centres in the USA and overseas is emphasised in this superb two minute video clip - a perfect lesson accompaniment when discussing logistics.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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