Enterra Insights

JUNE 27, 2022

Other categories with big increases: pork, poultry, fats and oils.” ” If that news isn’t grim enough, the staff at Fetch Rewards insists, “Food inflation [is actually] higher than government data.”[2] ” Despite all the bad news, consumers are remarkably resilient. range from a 6%-7% range.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

In addition, product categories are much more segmented and differentiated than they were previously. The good news is that the digitalization of the end-to-end supply chain is making the complex process of achieving agility over the long term much easier. And Agility Can Help Improve Profitability Too?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 2, 2021

Branding tips article and permission to publish here provided by Carol Trehearn. Simple things such as giving out business cards and attending live industry events fall under this category. Instead, share helpful information and news with your target audience. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2023

Launched in 2020, CommodityWatch AI uses real-time news and event monitoring and predictive analytics to forecast supply, demand, and pricing trends out to three months for commodities including but not limited: gold, silver, aluminum, copper, caustic soda, cobalt, helium, paper, and tin. What factors will impact commodities in 2023?

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2021

The SCRC’s Supply Management Maturity Index was highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal article , that identified the companies best prepared to weather the storm ahead in terms of supply chain disruptions. Let me describe the two categories highlighted in the journal article. chemicals, resins, IT providers).

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

I just read an interesting article about Chris Johnson, former top sales executive at Apple and CEO of JC Penney. It seems that Mr. Johnson is on a quest to “remake the retail world” as he takes his new company public. And now on to this week’s logistics news. That is a lot of money for personalized delivery.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 11, 2022

Climate journalist Jason Samenow ( @JSamenow ) reported, “Packing winds of 105 mph, Agatha slammed into Mexico’s southern west coast as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane — the strongest the country has endured in the month of May.”[1] This year’s hurricane season couldn’t come at a worse time.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

Effective inventory management has become increasingly crucial for businesses in this fast-paced and rapidly evolving era of ecommerce. Moreover, the ecommerce explosion has brought new and unique challenges that complicate inventory management for enterprises selling online.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 20, 2021

The staff at Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) explains, “If 2020 was a Dickens novel about consumer goods, it might be called a tale of two categories: essential and non-essential. In Part 1 of this article, I discussed signs that the brick-and-mortar retail sector is recovering. ” #2.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 28, 2017

Amazon just proved—again—that it can do whatever the hell it wants,” is the title of a Quartz article written yesterday by Alison Griswold. “Do Moving on, here’s the rest of this week’s supply chain and logistics news: Freight-Booking Startup Convoy Raises $62 Million (WSJ – sub. Do investors like it when Amazon beats estimates?

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

In this article, we compare 2 books and tell you which one is the best negotiation book. In this article, we will talk about 2 books for negotiation and persuasion from 2 different perspectives as below, 1. Best Seller Awards are usually given by leading news outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or Business Week.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 10, 2022

When we did the survey previously we had 14% of respondents in Denial, 22% in the Status Quo category, 32% making Modest changes, and 32% making significant changes. Supply Chain has never been in the news and social media everyday. Interestingly 14% said their companies were in Denial, the same as our survey results.

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SCM Research

JUNE 24, 2021

Once again, only the following OSCM journals were classified in category 4*: Journal of Operations Management , Management Science and Operations Research. This is good news for our discipline, because it means that the Journal of Supply Chain Management has moved up into this important category.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Using Google Trends data, Google has identified the retail categories which are now “ The New Normal.” Whether or not you know what the metaverse means (we’ll save that article for another day), it is a rising retail trend. Image source: Bring Me the News.

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Supply Chain Trend

JULY 9, 2020

The good news is that we seem to be on the cusp of the breakthrough in autonomous supply chain planning software. New autonomous planning categories will appear and grow into full scale supply chain solutions. This is a shortened version of my article first published in Foresight. Photo credit: aarp.org.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 15, 2013

” “Good news on market acceptance of our products travels fast, and for the most part, we as a supply chain team can run fast with the good news and make up the differences in volume. However, this is not the case with bad news. Good news travels fast. Bad news travels slowly. Market-driven?”

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Alloy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What you will learn in this article What is Walmart Luminate? An Introduction to Walmart Luminate Listen to the full episode of the Shelf Life Podcast on Walmart Luminate Walmart Luminate is the retailer’s new data, analytics and reporting tool for suppliers — and it represents a massive step forward in retailer-supplier collaboration.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 25, 2017

For example, we wrote recently about how Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods Market represents more than a new stream of brick and mortar business, but the possibility of improving its last mile delivery – the so-called “Holy Grail of Logistics,” and therefore gaining a further leg-up over its eCommerce competitors in the grocery category.

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The Network Effect

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The good news is I now have a 3 inch stack of articles that tell me all I ever wanted to know about retail performance for 2014. After a 3-hour review of these articles I have come to some interesting observations. How can we analyze this? How can this be deciphered?

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 23, 2019

In the second part of the article, I’ll address what experts are suggesting companies can do mitigate the effects of climate change. In the final part of the article, I’ll discuss how big data and artificial intelligence can help address the challenges of climate change. The problem is indeed intractable. Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain Trend

JULY 1, 2020

The good news is that we seem to be on the cusp of the breakthrough in autonomous supply chain planning software. New autonomous planning categories will appear and grow into full scale supply chain solutions. This is a shortened version of my article first published in Foresight. Photo credit: aarp.org.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Introduction I started to write a “Demand Forecasting 101” article but decided that was going to turn into another Ph.D. Along those lines, I suggest the 1971 Harvard Business Review article, How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique. For more on AI, see my article, Primer: Artificial Intelligence for Demand Forecasting.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2021

While there is no specific formula for a pricing-competitiveness KPI, it should merely be a case of checking the prices you are paying for supplies in given categories against those published in market price guides and online. A lot will depend on the nature of your industry and the categories of supplies that you receive.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 30, 2017

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. Understanding consumer behavior, and how that drives category sales, is top of mind for category management professionals. The article details the latest findings of JDA’s Voice of the Category Manager survey.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 17, 2021

As I listened to news updates over the weekend, a topic popped up that I hadn’t paid much attention to in a while - Live shopping. Facebook also kicked off Live Shopping Fridays for the beauty and fashion categories. Could it disrupt online marketplaces such as Amazon? Remember HSN and QVC? Disrupt online marketplaces?

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Arkieva

JULY 25, 2016

Supply Chain News. Read Full Article. New Survey Reveals Excess Detention Times Still a Major Issue for Drivers and Carriers. Read Full Article. Journal of Supply Chain Management Analyzes the Correlation Between Product Categories, Order Procurement and Fulfilment, and Its Effect on Repurchase Intention in Ecommerce.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 30, 2017

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. Understanding consumer behavior, and how that drives category sales, is top of mind for category management professionals. The article details the latest findings of JDA’s Voice of the Category Manager survey.

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Freightera

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Awesome news for Freightera blog and our readers! Our post Ship a Pallet in 15 Easy Steps: Quick Guide for Pallet Shipping for Beginners was selected among thousands of articles as one of the finalists in the Transport/Freight category. We want to thank everybody who voted for us!

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Today’s breaking Wall Street Journal article provides a great case study on the impacts of not proprerly managing contractual supplier relationships. This was an important and emerging new technology, one that would produce manufactured sapphire to cover the face of all of Apple’s new iphone products. .”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Introduced by Gartner Analyst, Noha Tohamy, at Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference, AI was broken down into two categories. This article itself will too create its own unique impression on the internet, once published.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

After a brief hiatus, Friday in 5 is back to provide interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. Because the industry is rapidly changing, the article points out that determining the right amount of supply chain data and how to best manage it is largely a company-specific decision.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

After a brief hiatus, Friday in 5 is back to provide interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. Because the industry is rapidly changing, the article points out that determining the right amount of supply chain data and how to best manage it is largely a company-specific decision.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Introduction I started to write a “Demand Forecasting 101” article but decided that was going to turn into another Ph.D. Along those lines, I suggest the 1971 Harvard Business Review article, How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique. For more on AI, see my article, Primer: Artificial Intelligence for Demand Forecasting.

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Resilinc

APRIL 6, 2021

As described in the previous article, the Planning phase of an SCRM program focuses on building the business case, achieving support from stakeholders and leaders, developing a charter and securing funding. billion news feeds from about 3.5 million sources to alert customers to 6,192 potentially disruptive events in 2020.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I have a plane to catch this morning, so let’s go straight to the news… 3Gtms Announces the Inaugural Release of 3GTM Transportation Software. Tweet The post This Week in Logistics News (February 24-28, 2014) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Song of the Week: “On Top of the World” by Imagine Dragons.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 23, 2017

So, as not to deprive you of the interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, we are bringing you this special Monday edition. Here’s a quick roundup of industry news to bring you up-to-speed. Read more in Bloomberg’s article Holiday Sales Outpace Forecast Despite Department-Store Woes.

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QAD

MARCH 30, 2023

As I discussed in a recent article in RFID Journal , RFID technology has changed a lot since 2005 and could be the secret to ensuring greater visibility and inventory accuracy this year. Looking forward to partnering with our suppliers to expand #rfid to additional categories this year.” What is RFID Technology?

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