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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Swimsuits and dresses for weddings—you never buy just one,” says Joanie Demer, co-founder of Krazy Coupon Lady. For some online apparel retailers, returns now average 40% of sales. People who buy portable generators during weather emergencies use them until the emergencies have ended, and then those go back too.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. These 36 innovative companies have figured out how to hack their operations, gaining some financial or media recognition for their methods. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics.

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American Software Reports First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023 Results

Logility

Notable new and existing customers placing orders with the Company in the first quarter include: Acushnet Company, Color Image Apparel, Inc., a Traverse City, Michigan based innovator of supply chain network design software. This annual award honors IT companies that support and enable logistics excellence. Logility, Inc.

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6 Essential Procurement Training Courses for Professionals: How To Begin and Advance Your Career in Procurement

SCMDOJO

Procurement training equips you to excel in the corporate world by teaching you everything from supplier dynamics to negotiating strategies. What is procurement and purchasing Lesson 2. Procurement and Purchasing Cycle Lesson 7. Make or Buy decision Lesson 3. Trends and tendencies in procurement Lesson 3.

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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

Supply Chain Shaman

Customers are buying less. Amazon’s innovation is redefining eCommerce faster than Wal-Mart can keep up. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. Note that apparel manufacturing is growing and apparel retail is declining.

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Omni-channel Emerging as Top Retail Logistics Issue

Supply Chain Network

Last year in Florida at RILA Logistics 2013, the topic of multi-channel was discussed with 5 related presentations delivered where the challenges of the coming omni-channel revolution were laid down. Speaker(s): Rob Bass, Vice President, Distribution, Best Buy Co., Leslie Irvin, Director, Wal-Mart Innovations, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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Welcome Puff, The Magic Dragon, to Your Team

Supply Chain Shaman

(My stepson calls them tidy whiteys) Imagine a boring, basic apparel item. Older men buy less underwear than younger males and their packaging was not as attractive to the female shopper buying for the family. If you are wondering how to ride the dragon, consider taking the steps: Provide innovation funding.