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How Manufacturers Can Take Control of Inventory with RFID Technology

QAD

If you work in the automotive, aerospace and defense industries or, of course, the consumer goods industry, you’ve probably been working with RFID technology for years. Soon after, Senior Director of Merchandising Shelly McDougal said via LinkedIn , “We recently launched RFID in Walmart #apparel. ” My takeaway?

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. Purchases in the center store of the grocery store are in decline, and apparel tastes are shifting. By building demand management processes to focus on channel movement, companies can cut demand latency and model independent demand–customer purchases.

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4 Best-in-Class Supply Chains To Watch and Learn From

Logistics Bureau

So in order to perhaps spawn some ideas for your supply chain excellence efforts, I thought I’d offer a brief overview of how four leading organisations are achieving their successes and cementing their mastery of the 21 st century supply chain. Is sustainability a viable growth strategy for fast-moving-consumer-goods brands?

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This Week in Logistics News (April 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

It includes free shipping of online purchases, free grocery deliveries to the home for orders of at least $35, prescription discounts and other benefits. Effective this past Monday, Amazon added a new extra-large storage type, in addition to the standard-size, oversize, apparel and footwear storage types it already has in place.

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32 Ecommerce KPIs That Every Online Store Needs to Track for Growth

ShipBob

Depending on your business goals, a “conversion” can be almost anything, but in most cases, for ecommerce businesses, it is when someone converts from being just a website visitor or email subscriber to becoming a customer by making a purchase. Costs of goods sold (COGS). Conversion rate = (Conversions ÷ Total visitors) X 100%.

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Why investors are looking at supply chain technologies in 2020

Requis

You’re going to need to buy more machinery, etc., But if the pitch is around, ‘we have to deploy this because it’s accurately going to predict what’s going to happen for our customers, because if we don’t they’re going to buy from another company’—that will work.”. Excellent potential. and so you have costs going up.”.

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Sustainable Manufacturing: The ultimate guide for SMEs

Unleashed

These industries include car-making, apparel, food, household goods, and electronics. Plastic toys use plastic more intensively than other consumer goods and 80& of plastic toys end up in landfills, incinerators or in the ocean according to Joris Vanbriel and Vanessa Yuan, Co-founders of ecoBirdy.