Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 10, 2023
The finished products are then ready to be shipped to big box retailers like Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Walmart. 40% of the finished goods are shipped directly to retail clients by their contract manufacturers. This warehouse provides inventory storage for goods not yet ordered that will ship later. The timing was not great.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 26, 2023
Last night, I took my 13-year-old son to see the movie Air, which tells the story of how Nike pursued basketball rookie Michael Jordan in 1984 to sign with the company. That move, and Michael Jordan’s incredible talent and business acumen, has turned the Jordan brand into a multi-billion-dollar business. Inventories at U.S.
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MIT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Temporary storefronts called “pop-up” shops are an established feature of the retail landscape, but how about “pop-up” fulfillment centers? Nowhere are these changes more evident than in warehousing. In response, retailers have created various facilities to store products, fill orders, and dispatch them to impatient online shoppers.
Proxima
JUNE 19, 2020
The pandemic has presented an unexpected opportunity for retailers to redesign their supply chains in response to the shift to online and the need for an evolved customer experience. This lockdown e-commerce boom has been either a blessing or a curse for retailers.
Proxima
JULY 16, 2020
At our recent webinar, held with Supply Chain and Logistics consultancy Hatmill, Proxima’s Simon Geale welcomed Joe Metcalf, Johnathan Foster, Neil Jordan, and Simon Dixon to discuss their advice on the tools needed now to achieve supply chain and logistics success across: warehousing, automation, freight, and reverse logistics.
Proxima
AUGUST 3, 2020
Whether warehousing, automation, freight, retail or e-commerce, business leaders needed to evaluate and address many or all in order to maintain their supply chains and keep up with the demand, which in turn, was drastically altered by the pandemic. Warehousing pressures: will there be a lack of capacity?
Enterra Insights
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley explain what happened next.[2]. It costs a retailer less to send a shoe to Europe from a factory in Southeast Asia than it does to transport it from a local European warehouse to a shoe store in the same country. That assessment turned up a troubling discovery. ” Footnotes. [1]
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