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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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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. Cognitive solutions, like the Enterra Supply Chain Intelligence System , will augment human decision-making in ambiguous and anomalous situations.

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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. For instance, the supply chain, which entails operations, purchasing, distribution, inventory management, etc., Breaking it down In the U.S. 3 What’s the allure?

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Supply Chain Disruption. A Deeper Look Into Context, Causes, and Trends  

Elementum

This expansion occurred at the same time products were becoming more complex and modularized, and also as supply chain management became increasingly software-dependent. From 2002 to 2013, the cost of manufacturing in China increased almost 500%, making China significantly more expensive than places like India.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Deutsche Post started acquiring shares of the company in 1998 and completed its acquisition of DHL by 2002, expanding the brand ‘DHL’ to its other services. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7

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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 survived, however, and became one of the first software companies to embrace the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model. Source: Google.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

The global apparel sector’s effort resulted in the development of the Higg Index, a universally accepted LCA tool and life cycle inventory database. Insight #7: The Federal Government Can Do More in Purchasing Bioproducts. This should include the following four elements: Improved NAICS codes. Annual reporting.