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E-commerce and the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

Retailers have always been curious about the paths consumers take when they decide something needs to be purchased. When the Internet and World Wide Web introduced consumers to online shopping (aka e-commerce), the path to purchase became much more complex. Today the digital path to purchase is growing in importance.

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. Metrics monitoring Real-time data can be accessed globally using cloud computing. Breaking it down In the U.S. 3 What’s the allure? is a highly complex process.

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Autonomous Supply Chain: Desirable Vision or Silly Daydream?

Enterra Insights

Some examples include gestural interfaces, machine-aided purchases, facial recognition, autonomous cars, miniature drones, ubiquitous advertising, and electronic surveillance. ” The Stream by River Logic , 30 September 2018. [3] gitalist , 3 May 2018. [4] gitalist , 26 July 2017. [2]

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

Effectively, there is no database that permits reliable reporting on the volume of biobased products sold in the US or exported for global consumers. One of the big insights from the analysis in our report is that the biobased economy is emerging in states all over the country. Annual reporting.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

Virtually all of those startups disappeared by 2002 — they either burned through all of their investment money or were acquired by bigger fish. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends). One of Descartes’ most high-profile acquisitions was its purchase of MacroPoint for $107 million in August 2017.

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Is Warehouse Robotics at the Inflection Point?

Locus Robotics

E-Commerce providers and 3PLs are under increasing pressure to match Amazon’s speed, cost efficiencies, and accuracy. A 2018 study found that 43 percent of consumers surveyed expected “much faster” delivery times, a sharp increase from 2017. Online purchases will only become more a part of everyday life.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

A report proposing three system solutions that could reshape the industry and set the clean energy technology sector on a path to sustainability. Read the short version of this report on Medium. Chapter 2 of this report outlines some of the barriers observed to play a prohibitive role to transparency for REE mining and processing.