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Key Insights from NRF 2024: Navigating the Future of Retail

ToolsGroup

The curtains have closed on the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2024 Retail’s Big Show, and this year’s event has been extraordinary, with a record-breaking attendance of nearly 40,000 participants from around the globe. Retailers are exploring tuning models, open source techniques or new solutions to drive this incremental precision.

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Building Resilient Supply Chains is Hard — but Essential

Enterra Insights

She explains, “Today’s supply chain management companies live in a fortunate time where they can collect real-time updates on current events courtesy of the Internet and other technologies.

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How CPG Brands Can Beat Disruption with Digital Manufacturing

QAD

Companies are sourcing ingredients and components from different sources, have new logistics and supply partners, and are likely even serving a different end customer with new ideas about how they like to shop and what matters most to them.

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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

I will soon be publishing the 2021 base-year study with a five-year forecast through 2026. Fortna’s framework includes consulting, design, planning, sourcing, implementation, and lifecycle services. The company sources subsystem mechatronics from numerous manufacturers, depending upon client needs. Lee Partners.

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The Role of Blockchain in SCM, with Examples

SCMDOJO

As per an estimate , in 2020, its worth was $253 million and predicted to grow up to $3,272 million in 2026. This empowers all partners to follow the excursion of items from the source to the end client progressively, upgrading responsibility and lessening the gamble of misrepresentation or fake products.

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Denied Party Screening: Why It Matters

QAD

Car batteries can provide a ready source of power for almost any use — not all of them friendly. REPUTATION PROTECTION No manufacturer wishes to see their company or brand name associated with a rogue state, terrorist attack or criminal event. trillion in 2026. Nitrogen-based fertilizer can be used to build bombs.

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Only as Good as Your Data: Why Supply Chain Digital Twins Require Real-Time Data Unification

ToolsGroup

With the advent of true “single source of truth” inventory visibility , a digital twin is a more feasible goal than ever before. They ingest information like transportation plans or shipment delays and model the implications of unexpected events. Big, clunky, siloed, and out-of-date data. No pesky silos, no lags in information.