Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

Walmart’s supply chain woes. Uber Eats teams up with Office Depot for on-demand school supplies. Walmart is facing some serious supply chain issues. billion in inventory that “if we could just wave a magic wand, we’d make it go away today,” said chief financial officer John David Rainey.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights for readers the implications of Amazon’s ongoing global and domestic operational and last mile fulfillment network. We believe that these inventory management, customer and last-mile fulfillment strategies will have industry wide implications in terms of competitive stakes and cost-to-serve.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives of Amazon’s recently reported Q4 and full year 2023 financial performance. Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky specifically noted to investors that that AWS customers are still cautious about their IT spending, but expects segment revenue growth to continue to accelerate in 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights for its readership a published report that once again points to the strategic threat that Amazon is developing to yet again disrupt the retail and wholesale industry. This prediction was as early as 2019. Now it seems history aims to repeat itself, at least from a Wall Street investment lens.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Supply Chain Matters once again highlights some positive news for global supply chain management teams, specifically transportation and logistics related teams. As supply chain logistics and transportation teams are keenly aware, rates peaked to more than $20,000 per container for both routes at this time last year.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights a published report indicating that PC maker Hewlett Packard is modifying supply sourcing akin to China Plus and nearshoring sourcing actions. the strategies were exploring nearshoring of prior foreign production, diversifying supplier networks and adding additional contingency inventories.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 19, 2021

Busy times for all of us and in particular supply chain managers who are dealing with capacity constraints, delays, the rise of e-commerce, forecasting in this crazy environment, identifying and analyzing data, and putting the data to use in strategies. billion in 2024, a 60% growth from 2019.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights continued evidence that the U.S. According to the April report commentary , the industry remains hopeful in new signs indicating that retailers and manufacturers are getting closer to working off the overall glut of inventories that resulted in 2022. The LMI has now declined 6.7

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BlueYonder

JUNE 6, 2024

In a previous blog post , I discussed some highlights from Blue Yonder’s 2024 Supply Chain Executive Survey. They agree that the way to address those challenges is investing in supply chain improvements, particularly advanced technology. And supply chain teams plan to keep adding leading-edge capabilities.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today the stakes are even higher , with the ever-present ghost of disruption rattling supply chains around the world. The better your understanding and management of seasonal stock, the less the specter of supply chain disruption will keep you up at night. Benefits of Effective Seasonal Inventory Management.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 15, 2023

Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo EU 2023 has wrapped up its 3-day event in Barcelona, Spain. Featuring over 35 Gartner experts and more than 100 research-driven sessions, this year’s conference gathered over 2,000 supply chain professionals from across Europe and beyond. Looking for a snapshot of the key highlights?

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BlueYonder

MAY 7, 2024

Companies across the manufacturing, retail, and logistics service provider industries are facing several major chronic challenges that impact their supply chains. Blue Yonder Warehouse Management solutions have been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) report 1 for 13 times in a row!

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Technology. This column serves as a news capsule of specific developments occurring in the supply chain technology sector. Our prior full edition of this column was published on January 19 t h.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

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BlueYonder

MAY 13, 2024

Each year, Blue Yonder releases the findings of its annual Supply Chain Executives Survey* in conjunction with ICON, the premier conference for supply chain leaders in manufacturing, logistics and retail. And this is the focus of what Blue Yonder ICON 2024 attendees will learn about this week.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 24, 2022

AI in the supply chain is here to stay and make waves in the years to come. According to Gartner, supply chain organizations expect the level of machine automation in their supply chain processes to double in the next five years. AI in Supply Chains – The Business Advantages.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In this special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology , we highlight an announcement of added capabilities being planned for the Amazon AWS Supply Chain B2B Cloud. The product announcement was made in conjunction with the Amazon AWS re:Invent conference held in 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 18, 2024

Global retailer Walmart aims to provide supply chain focused technology to help other retailers and businesses to broaden their customer fulfilment and logistics support capabilities. Strategically planning inventory pickup (backhauls) on return trips from deliveries – in ensuring thar semi-trailers are never empty.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Overall inventory levels were $64.0 On a category basis, executives pointed to comparable sales for grocery items rising by mid-single digits. This profit performance benefited from our team’s commitment to efficiency and disciplined inventory management, and I’d like to thank them for their tireless efforts.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2024

What defines a high-performing supply chain? However, this year promises a significant paradigm shift where traditional performance metrics are replaced by technology-driven frameworks, as recent breakthroughs with Generative AI in supply chains have demonstrated. Enter our list of supply chain trends for 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our readers with a further update on the ongoing Red Sea shipping disruption including added context and implications. Background Just before the Christmas 2023 holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption.

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