Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2022

The joint press release points out the technology’s ability to build palletized loads of department-sorted inventory and its strategic role in supporting Walmart’s goal of modernizing its vast supply chain network and allowing the company to transform its regional distribution centers to provide faster responsiveness to store orders.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 13, 2023

Today’s article comes from the team at KNAPP and explores the use of warehouse robotics. These solutions can be deployed along the entire value chain, helping you store, convey, pick and fulfill orders automatically. To read the full article, click HERE. Does this sound familiar to you? Now, let’s zoom in on some of these areas.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2023

I provided a glimpse of the study content in an article in October that lists the top 20 warehouse automation suppliers , based on ARC’s estimates of 2021 revenues. Together, these two articles provide a substantial quantitative and qualitative overview of the global warehouse automation market. Plans for the 2.8

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2021

My colleague Steve Banker published an informative article in 2020 about this extensive initiative Ahold Delhaize’s Supply Chain Transformation (forbes.com). Intelligent Store Replenishment. The process starts with the objective of fulfilling a “store, aisle, and shelf friendly” delivery to a downstream store or fulfillment center.

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Arkieva

AUGUST 16, 2023

This blog discusses different scenarios that led to the optimization models producing and storing excess inventory. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 6, 2022

Michael Burry’s tweet was referencing the CNN article Just keep your returns: Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items. In turn, there is the possibility that some stores may not want to handle your returns, preferring to let you just keep the items. Here’s my take on the topic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 19, 2023

An IO solution uses sophisticated math to determine how much inventory needs to be stored at different locations across the network to make certain service levels will be attained with the lowest possible amount of inventory. This article showed the role eight different technologies play. It doesn’t.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 11, 2021

Working in partnership with Ahold USA, Peapod enables home delivery of groceries through a variety of regional chains, such as Stop & Shop and Giant Food Stores. For those companies that offer curbside or in-store pick-up of grocery orders, store associates pick items and prepare them for a staging area.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This has not only been reinforced by recent world events – it’s also being destroyed in the lab by teams of people coming up with ways to simply store wind and solar power cheaper and cheaper. Batteries that store variable renewable energy (VRE) like wind and solar power are making many headlines. The Energy Grid.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

In February 2023 I wrote the article What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? This post was subsequently followed by two articles that discussed some of the findings from the survey.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 19, 2021

As journalist Anne D’Innocenzio ( @ADInnocenzio ) puts it, “Americans are going back to one of their favorite pastimes: store shopping.”[1] And store customers tend to do more impulse buying. ” To take advantage of shoppers returning to stores, retailers need to do more than simply open their doors.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 30, 2022

As a result, there are few relationships more important for the well-being of modern humans than the one between consumers and the grocery stores from which they obtain their food. Grocery stores were open and shelves were well-stocked. And the planogram for the center store is perhaps the most important of all.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Otherwise known as a distributed ledger, the automatic recording of data into the blockchain allows for cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum or Bitcoin to serve as way more than just a store of value. Editor’s Note: This is a guest article from Jake Rheude. Blockchain in supply chain changes that.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This article is from Descartes and it discusses the pitfalls to avoid when choosing a Transportation Management System (TMS). The lack of a technology strategy The reasons for stakeholders to start looking at a TMS are endless: eliminating manual processes, insufficient use of stored data, need of more flexibility in their system, etc.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As noted in the initial installment of this article, Elise Dopson reports, “Data suggests that 20% of online-bought products are returned, compared to just 9% of items bought in a brick-and-mortar store.”[1] According to NRF, the blended return rate between in-store and online in 2020 was 10.6% Return Items to Store.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2021

Walmart is making investments in warehouse automation in distribution centers to deliver aisle and department-ready pallets to stores. Around the world, ecommerce is growing much faster than in-store sales. The store omnichannel services include pickup at store, ship from store, and digital pharmacy fulfillment options.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2024

Think happy stores, happy buyers, happy you. Say goodbye to logistics headaches and hello to “happy dance” efficiency. Customer Service Champs: ProvisionAi fuels on-time, in-full deliveries, keeping customers satisfied and boosting your brand. Imagine millions back in your pocket, ready to fuel further growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Fabric, a warehouse automation/robotics solution provider and third-party operator of micro fulfillment centers, is reported by the Wall Street Journal to be cutting its workforce and shifting its business strategy as grocers and retailers shift their focus to automated fulfillment operations inside stores.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We encourage qualified practitioners to take the survey, and we will provide those participants with a summary of our findings as a sign of our appreciation (please find survey link at end of this article). The post What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? and warehouse and fulfillment resilience approaches.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The challenging landscape, from store and factory closures to wild swings in inventory, has proven to be the ultimate test of strength for supply chain teams everywhere. A global pandemic was impossible to foresee as COVID-19 swept across our increasingly interconnected world. Supply chain is now a household term.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2022

This article is from Asena Denizeri & Anil Gurbuz at Solvoyo and examines the challenges around supply chain planning for 2022 and beyond. It is not a surprise for customers to walk into stores with empty shelves or for companies to not receive shipments from their overseas suppliers. To read the full article, click HERE.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Earlier this month, I wrote an article about the diverse range of mobile warehouse robotics solutions available in the market today. Within many businesses the shift in fulfilment channels has also changed rapidly – mostly from traditional store purchases to e-commerce or omni-channel transactions. Adapting to Changes .

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Last week, Clint Reiser published an article highlighting our 2022 supply chain predictions. Three years ago, my colleague Steve Banker wrote an article about the Amazon supply chain , asking if it was the most innovative in the world. This year we have decided to lead with our predictions about the broader supply chain function.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 2, 2023

year-over-year through November, while retail sales (minus non-store, food & beverage, auto and gas sales) increased 8.0% Compared to the same period in 2019, e-commerce, as part of the non-store segment, is up 73.2%, while retail sales (minus non-store, food & beverage, auto, and gas sales) are up 23.4%.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 4, 2022

Look at Goodwill, Habitat For Humanity’s Re-Store, and countless local consignment and thrift stores. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Circularity, in the form of re-use, is not really new as a business model. Please contact me at hyeboah@arkieva.com.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Storing your cryptocurrencies in exchanges might be risky, and it is dangerous to leave them there for extended periods. Exchanges are a popular target for hackers because they store large amounts of money in digital wallets. How to Store Your Cryptocurrency Safe. There are a few different ways to store your cryptocurrencies.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 30, 2021

Stores are now having their day in the spotlight as retailers embrace multichannel services and consumers look for shopping and last-mile delivery options. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many retailers’ e-commerce strategies as stores battled temporary closures and consumers who were hesitant to shop in person once stores reopened.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Featuring Our 10 Best Warehouse Order Fulfillment Articles! The Bible records Egyptian people storing the surplus of agricultural goods so that they could be used in times of famine. Without a warehouse, there is nowhere to store physical products before they are dispatched to the final consumer or to another distribution centre.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 4, 2022

ECommerce SEO : How Online Stores Can Drive Organic Traffic! Millions of people patronize online stores when they need to purchase an item. eCommerce site and store owners have to implement specific marketing strategies to impress customers and make a profit. Having an eCommerce store offers numerous advantages to a business.

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Alloy

AUGUST 10, 2021

For consumer goods brands, launching into new stores provides major opportunities, but also comes with major risks. We’ve gathered some of our most popular articles and videos, so you can chart your path forward. Want to learn more about how Alloy can help you launch into new stores? Contact us for a demo today.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This article discusses the benefits of cryptocurrency trading. The same thing applies with cryptocurrency, and they tend to be transparent with their financial or personal information while remaining discrete with the information they store in blockchain technology. The transfers can be tracked and stored securely in the blockchain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Online shopping article and permission to publish here provided by Charlotte Smith. Online stores are convenient for those who live in remote areas or don’t have time to go out and shop, but they can also be risky if you don’t know what you’re doing. Returns policies can vary quite drastically from store to store.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

The following article will share 9 tips that will help you be more successful with your discounted pallets. If you don’t have any luck finding the liquidation pallets you need, you can try to contact the liquidations stores that are selling the pallets. The problem is that pallets are not always in good condition.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

ECommerce SEO : How Online Stores Can Drive Organic Traffic! Boost your E-Commerce business article and permission to publish here provided by Zaklina at Click Intelligence. Thousands of new online stores emerge every year among a massive community of shoppers worldwide. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Invest in a CRM.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Featuring Our 10 Best Warehouse Order Fulfillment Articles! Ecommerce Fulfillment is Critical article and permission to publish here provided by Nikitha Kanumuri. Fulfillment companies have become very instrumental to many ecommerce operators since they do the heavy lifting tasks involve in operating online stores.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 3, 2021

Consumer shopping habits have changed exponentially, and lockdown measures continually limit stores’ ability to attract footfall. Target Hitting the Mark With Fulfillment From Stores. Today, 90% of Target’s ecommerce orders are fulfilled from its retail stores. The Dark Store Trend.

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QAD

MARCH 23, 2023

Not so long ago, the industry saw consumers swapping products they’d been loyal to for years to whichever brand was easiest to come by, and ditching in-store shopping for the convenience, selection and, in the era of COVID-19, the safety online options had to offer.

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