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Taking a Big Picture View of Supply Chain Networks

Logistics Viewpoints

Diversity of sources (carriers + vendors + customers). In 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby coined the phrase “data is the new oil” to help make his point that corporate data has the potential to be an incredibly valuable resource. trillion terabytes of new data every day.). Data integrity. He lives in Chicago.

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Built for Yesterday’s Consumer: The Demise of Malls and Traditional Distribution Networks

Talking Logistics

percent in 2006 to 3.4 percent in 2014. percent in 2006 to 3.4 percent in 2014. Data Sources: “The Economics (and Nostalgia) of Dead Malls” (New York Times) and “America’s Shopping Malls Are Dying A Slow, Ugly Death (Business Insider).

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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

Supply Chain Shaman

When we do these types of analysis, we look back at the data as far as we can reach (Y chart data is available only back to 2006 in a reliable form) and then we look at the period of 2006-2014 and the more recent period of 2011-2014. Note that apparel manufacturing is growing and apparel retail is declining.

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Nasty Gal: When a Disrupter Isn’t Disruptive Enough

FLEXE

an online retailer focused on fast fashion for millennials, has gone from generating $85 million in revenue in 2014 to bankrupt in 2016… What happened? Founded by 32-year-old Sophia Amoruso in 2006, Nasty Gal’s rise and fall happened in less than a decade. Investing in the wrong kind of logistics. Nasty Gal Inc.,

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

2011-Divestiture of Pringles to Kellogg for 2.7B$ 2014-Sale of IAMS to Mars for 2.9B$ 2015-Sale of 43 P&G Beauty Brands to Coty for 12.5B$. Shown in Figure 2, we track the results for the period from 2006-to 2021. Discontinued in 2011. As shown in Figure 1, the results for the period of 2012-2021 tell the story. Lessons to Learn.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

I got started just as the dotcom craze was taking off, with new logistics startups coming to market every day (all of them announcing they were “The world’s leading provider of X” even though they were just a few months old). Source: Google. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends).

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White Paper: Improving Forecast Accuracy - Supply Chain Digest

Supply Chain Digest

Global Logistics. Wireless in Logistics. Lean Logistics. Supply Chain Digest is the industry’s premier interactive knowledge source, providing timely, relevant, in-context information. © 2006-2014 Supply Chain Digest - All Rights Reserved.' or Search by TOPIC. Select Topic. Compliance Networks.