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The Inventory Accuracy “Confidence Gap”

Talking Logistics

The research focused on the inventory visibility and optimization challenges that companies face today related to omni-channel fulfillment and the actions they should take to elevate their omni-channel performance. And it begins with improving their inventory accuracy. The Inventory Accuracy “Confidence Gap”.

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Self-Checkout Turns Customers into Employees and Employees into Security Guards

Enterra Insights

”[3] All retailers, not just grocers, are suffering from inventory losses. Knowles reports, “The National Retail Federation estimates that retail shrinkage — the discrepancy between advertised inventory and actual stock on hand — represents an approximately $112 billion problem.

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Amazon Prime Day 2021 Consumer Survey: Four Trends From This Year’s Annual Shopping Event

BlueYonder

To help uncover the latest consumer trends for Amazon’s annual shopping event, Blue Yonder surveyed over 1,000 consumers who participated in Prime Day to explore the impact of out-of-stocks, competing retailer deal days and more. Ensuring front-end and back-end technologies can meet consumer needs from inventory to returns will be crucial.

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The Future of Autonomous Supply Chains Part 1: Autonomous Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

According to a survey by McKinsey, 93% of supply chain executives plan to increase their investments in resilience, and 47% of them consider automation and digitization as the top priority. Kongsberg purchased Rolls Royce’s autonomous marine division back in 2018 to help advance its position as a leader in this market.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

A look at the supply chain trends and technology that will come into play in 2018. These concerns will extend into 2018, as companies work on a regulatory standard – though nothing has emerged yet. 2018 will see a focus on taking innovation beyond a buzzword and into implementable solutions that deliver executable results.

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Warehouse Labor Woes Are Worse than Ever

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group’s warehouse labor survey has shown that 35% of warehouses have a seasonal surge in the number of workers they employ of over 20%. By 2018, the year of the survey, this number fell to between 2 and 5 applicants per job. million people quit jobs in August, according to the monthly survey — about 2.9

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Top 5 Logistics Challenges and Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry

GlobalTranz

The manufacturing industry faces many challenges, such as a skilled labor shortage, supply chain instability, and inventory management issues. Supply Chain Management and Maintaining Inventory. Facing inventory challenges is common in the manufacturing industry. Inventory management software is an important solution.