Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 16, 2024
Let’s start with definitions: Self Service Planning: Decision support technologies designed for business leaders to use analytic techniques on a collaborative platform to improve business planning. Outside-in Planning: Modeling based on channel and supply network signals. This week, I was at Informs Analytics Conference.
Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 22, 2022
Körber , an international technology group, has signed an agreement to purchase enVista’s platform of Enspire Commerce omnichannel solutions, including its order management system (OMS), and its freight audit and payment (FAP) service. According to The McCown Report, imports to the top 10 US ports rose 5.9 percent gain in April.
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Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported. Those shipments need to go by Ocean or the more expensive Air mode if ship berths can’t be found. Because of this, they are predicting rates will skyrocket for Ocean and Air. This week’s news will all center on this war.
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 5, 2024
It has forced ships to reroute around the southern tip of Africa, driving up the cost for vessels for the longer voyage, though rates are still far below pandemic levels reached in 2021. Women’s clothing brand Spanx is using a humanoid robot to work in its Georgia warehouse. And now on to this week’s logistics news.
Supply Chain Matters
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal , a Texas site could begin pilot refining operations as early as the fourth quarter of this year., The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S. with commercial volume operations by the end of 2024.
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 14, 2023
According to a report from The Information , the company is imposing this fee on returns when return options at Whole Foods, Kohl’s, or Amazon Fresh locations are closer or at the same distance as a UPS Store return location. Previously, customers could drop off non-defective or undamaged items at UPS Stores without any cost.
OptiProERP
JANUARY 8, 2020
Analysts are joining in: A Walker study reported that customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator by the end of 2020. Source: PwC Report, Experience is Everything: Get it Right. They reduce costs, increase margins, and, importantly, satisfy customers with the timely delivery of quality products.
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