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Walmart’s Impressive Q4 and FY2023 Financial Performance

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives to retailer Walmart’s report of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. Specifically, high inflation and economically stressed consumers have been more selective in their purchase decisions. The reported profitability for the holiday quarter of $10.6

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Consumer Credit, Generation Z, and the Consumer Packaged Goods Sector

Enterra Insights

During this period of changing consumer behavior, retailers experienced an inventory mismatch and inflation reared its ugly head. Fortunately, the deep recession that many economists predicted didn’t emerge. Globally, Gen Z is growing fast: Gen Zers will make up a quarter of the population of the Asia–Pacific region by 2025.”[7]

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Fashion Industry Challenges Require Elegant Demand Planning

ToolsGroup

When you’re perusing luxury handbags online, or testing which cocktail dress suits you the best, you probably don’t pause to consider all the supply chain complexities and analytics required to ensure the fashion items you’re craving are in-stock. shorter product life cycles, and often protracted supply lead times. trillion U.S. 1) [link]. (2)

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IoT Benefits for Supply Chain Operations

Enterra Insights

Inventory Management. Inventory embedded with the proper sensors can be tracked in real-time via the IoT. Supply chain journalist Catherine Metcalf explains, “Businesses can now place IoT sensors with a variety of components to help manage inventory more efficiently. Now, the cobot brings everything to the picker.”

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Unleashing the Power of Omnichannel Retail Trends in the Middle East: Embracing the Best of Both Worlds

Vinculum

Regardless of the customer’s point of contact, this strategy seeks to deliver a seamless and customized purchasing experience. According to a report on Orienteed , the ecommerce sector in the Middle East is projected to reach a market volume of $50 billion by 2025.

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The Top 15 Retail Trends for 2022

ToolsGroup

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. When looking at global online sales, Salesforce reports 57% digital growth in 2020, and 16% growth in 2021, with eMarketer data predicting a continued increase through 2025. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories.

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The Top 6 Trends in Logistics Impacting Shippers in 2017

GlobalTranz

According to PLS Logistics , global companies will install procurement managers in China for entire organizations by 2025. There was a time when buying a computer was considered a once-in-a-decade purchase, if not once-in-a-lifetime. Globalization Will Become More Important in Everyday Decisions.