Category: AWS Glue

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, which sell a vast number of products through Amazon.com, need scalable, cost-effective, and accessible data visibility into Amazon Seller and Vendor Central. This enables the management of orders, keeping product catalogs up-to-date, accessing inventory insights, and tracking sales, shipments, and payments. Over the past several years, CPG companies have outsourced […]

This is a guest post by Neil Brown, Chief Technology Officer for Arriva Group. Arriva, one of the leading providers of passenger transport in Europe, has long struggled to measure its business performance due to a lack of consistent and identifiable ways of sourcing data. Their businesses, including those in the UK, Denmark and Sweden, […]

This blog focuses on a potential method to use Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) machine learning models to help customers predict parts that are likely to become defects or recalls. Specifically, we show how predictions generated from an LSTM may provide customers with early indicators that generally out-perform existing manual processes and can help assist […]

The importance of asset tracking Every day, Amazon.com receives millions of shipments from suppliers. A purchase order from Amazon to a supplier typically includes a large quantity of shipping containers, or assets, that will be delivered to various Amazon warehouses at different times. To determine if items are lost or misplaced in the large, complicated […]

Overview The agricultural industry faces a significant challenge supplying a growing population with the healthiest and most ethical foods possible. The world’s population is expected to reach close to 10B people by 2050 and the arable land utilized to feed this population is on the decline. The farming industry has been functioning near peak efficiency […]

The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruption to businesses and global markets. Although most of the world appears to be past the uncertainty and turbulence of the pandemic, companies, especially in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, continue to deal with major challenges. These include supply chain disruptions and labor shortages. Simultaneously, consumer buying patterns and […]

In our previous blog, How to build a dynamic supply chain platform: a primer, we discussed how companies can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a dynamic supply chain that can proactively react to events and also provide complete visibility, communication, and data transfer. By collecting and analyzing near-real-time supply chain data, companies can […]

Communications service providers (CSPs) often manage millions of customer premises equipment devices (CPEs) to provide services to their customers. These devices come in different types depending on the underlying communications technologies. Cable modems and xDSL modems, set-top boxes, and wireless routers are some examples of equipment types we see in customer environments. To manage those […]

Opportunity at the intersection of demand and supply Complexity and volatility characterized the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and retail industries even before the pandemic impacted all of us. According to a Boston Consulting Group study, the associated opportunity loss due to complex and volatile business is estimated to be 8–10 percent, and poor anticipation of demand […]

Welcome back to the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series. Each month we look at five key considerations that FSI customers should focus on to help streamline cloud service approval for one particular service. Each of the five key considerations includes specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code that can be […]