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The New Significance of a Logistics Strategy: Role, Success factors, and Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

The success of a company has nothing to do with its form, whether as solely online retailer, a startup or a company evolving from brick and mortar retail. Last but not least, the largest retailer in the world is Walmart. Within a couple of years, these companies experienced massive growth, with turnovers in the billions.

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Ivalua Supports the Digitalization of Tchibo’s Indirect Purchasing Process with its Source-to-Contract Solution

ivalua

Tchibo is one of Germany’s largest international consumer goods and retail companies. In addition to a strong, national business focus, the company is active in Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Turkey. Founded in 1949, the company today has a turnover of €3.2 About Ivalua.

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Walmart’s Notion of Next Generation Online Customer Fulfillment Centers

Supply Chain Matters

There was a super interesting announcement from retailer Walmart last week regarding an additional investment in what is described as next generation online customer fulfillment centers. Beyond the retailer’s existing 31 dedicated E-commerce fulfillment centers, 4,700 retail stores located across the U.S.

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Cinco de Mayo 2022

Enterra Insights

The National Retail Federation (NRF) notes, “Americans across the country will celebrate Mexican food, culture and traditions. By April 1862 the English and Spanish had withdrawn, but the French, with the support of wealthy landowners, remained in an attempt to establish a monarchy under Maximilian of Austria and to curb U.S.

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Can you win with a broken chain?

Kinaxis

During his race run in Leogang, Austria, Gwin’s chain broke a few pedal strokes out of the starting gate. Mike Sinyard, Specialized founder and CEO, said: “We are investing in our supply chain to ensure we are delivering the best product at the best price to riders and our retailers. All of this is an investment in our future.”.

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Sky Deutschland, Teleplan and DHL open a new European distribution centre

Supply Chain Movement

million customers with a wide range of different hardware items such as set-top boxes, smartcards, hard drives, and WLAN modules that are delivered by a parcel service to customer households, retail partners, as well as hotels and sports bars in Germany and Austria. The new distribution centre provides Sky Deutschland’s over 4.6

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o9 Solutions and Genpact Partner to Digitally Transform Supply Chain of Eckes-Granini

o9 Solutions

This transformation initiative combines Genpact’s decades of expertise in retail and consumer goods, supply chain optimization, and digitally enabled operations with o9’s Digital Brain platform , which is powered by o9’s proprietary Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG) technology for end-to-end supply chain and scenario planning.