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Amazon Prime Day 2021 Consumer Survey: Four Trends From This Year’s Annual Shopping Event

BlueYonder

Retailers are seeing strong sales heading into Q3 as a result. As many consumers return to “normal” spending habits, this year’s annual event was in many ways the retail industry’s first big test on its road to recovery. 37%), beauty products (22%), automotive/Powersports (20%) and health/personal care (20%).

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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

The question was, “How can I redefine demand planning processes to use channel data?” The Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. Starting to understand the issue with multi-tier demand planning?

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Seeing Supply Chain Visibility through Different Lenses

Bristlecone

With consumers seeking better customer experiences, retailers have the opportunity to maximize sales. It was the uncertainty of whether the product would be available that drove my purchase decision. However, in this case, the retailer missed a sale due to lack of inventory visibility at the distributor site.

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ERP Sustains Manufacturing during COVID-19

IQMS

However, the extensive reliance on ERP solutions to maintain widespread, fundamental business continuity, as we are seeing today, has never been experienced on such a large scale. Modern ERP solutions have even minimized the need to have IT professionals onsite since many of today’s solutions are hosted or managed in the cloud.

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ChainLink Research: Making Allocations Smarter

Logility

Allocation processes and their supporting technology are getting a fresh look by retailers of late. Spotting the big product trends is critical for the retailer’s brand. Currently, the concept of an in season or rapid refresh that responds to current demand is not an allocation practice within many retail organizations.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. Keep it Simple : It’s important to not over complicate things. 8) Arnold Maltz , Associate Professor at W.

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Seasonal Inventory and 7 Ways to Manage It Effectively

ToolsGroup

Seasonal inventory refers to goods associated with specific periods or events that cause demand fluctuation throughout the year. In the retail sector , seasonality plays a pretty visible role. If you’re a retailer , is your inventory already marked down or even still in stock? If you’re a manufacturer , have you produced enough?