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The State of Home Delivery: Plenty of Room for Improvement

Logistics Viewpoints

Earlier in 2022, we conducted a survey of 8,000 consumers across North America and Europe to get a better sense of their ecommerce experience and how they were reacting to retailer performance. On one hand, consumers expect to increase their online purchases post-pandemic. The results of the research are a good news, bad news story.

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Create a facilities “Center of Excellence.” Shippers should create a “Center of Excellence” for facilities to drive technology investments, make buying decisions and create efficiencies that benefit the entire network while cultivating a process of sharing best practices between one another.

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Why Sustainable Home Delivery Results in Greater Sales and Profitability

Logistics Viewpoints

Second, the pandemic kicked online buying and home delivery into “high gear” as many consumers embraced its convenience and dramatically expanded the scope of their online purchasing. Consumers are making purchasing decisions based upon environmental impact. So, how are these two trends mutually beneficial?

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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. For LKQ Europe , as shown in Figure 1, testing on brake pad distribution showed that the bullwhip effect was 48% between channel demand and the customer order. Bullwhip Effect at LKQ Europe Summer 2022 Testing So, why do we not measure it?

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Tackling E-commerce and Fulfillment at eTail Europe 2017

ModusLink Corporation

Most notable has been the shift from traditional brick-and-mortar shopping to online and mobile purchasing. As a result of this shift, retailers have been forced to focus on e-commerce and fulfillment strategies to ensure the online or mobile customer has the same excellent experience that […].

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Tackling E-commerce and Fulfillment at eTail Europe 2017

ModusLink Corporation

Most notable has been the shift from traditional brick-and-mortar shopping to online and mobile purchasing. As a result of this shift, retailers have been forced to focus on e-commerce and fulfillment strategies to ensure the online or mobile customer has the same excellent experience that […].

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Apple’s China Problem

Logistics Viewpoints

What happened instead was massive theft of intellectual property, huge trade deficits, the hollowing out of the middle class in Europe and North America, and the rise of nativist politics. These controls included a measure to cut China off from certain buying semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US tools.

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