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How Japanese E-commerce Brands Can Overcome the Challenges in Last-Mile Deliveries

Locus

As delivery times become shorter, logistics providers are faced with increased volumes of goods, high delivery costs for customers, less flexibility with delivery time slots and more traffic on the roads. Leisure-related goods were a recurring category of online purchasing. All countries come with their unique logistical challenges.

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Optimizing Last-Mile Fulfillment for FMCG Businesses in the Middle East

Locus

E-commerce is becoming a reality,” the management consulting company stated, “reinventing consumers’ path to purchase, forming new customer experiences , disrupting business models, and creating growth opportunities for large and small retailers as well as for a new generation of pure E-commerce players.” In 2019, Bain & Co.

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

While many technology companies have co-opted the network of networks message, today there is no interoperability between network solutions. The SAP acquisition of Ariba slowed innovation and the purchase, and then the failed promise of investment in Crossgate was disappointing to SAP supply chain business users.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. .

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. This requires bi-directional communication between trading partners in the value chain. Figure 1: Current Levels of Visibility. 2) Supply Visibility.

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50 expert tips on logistics planning and strategy

6 River Systems

As the biggest players in fulfillment, distribution and omnichannel retail continue to push boundaries, logistics and planning strategists are forced to innovate. Seeing this, we decided that it would be helpful to compile a curated list of 50 of the best tips on logistics planning and strategy that we could find.

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Trends 2021: Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

”[3] Mariia Deresh, a content provider at PLS Logistics Services, adds, “After the pandemic hit, everyone is talking about building resilience … but behind resilience, there is supply chain visibility. This will only be possible if businesses create shorter, more circular supply chains.