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REPOST: The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch

The Logistics of Logistics

Andrew Lynch is President and co-founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. In recent years, many large retailers began using OTIF to measure their supplier’s performance. Relationships with the retailer are hurt. third-party?logistics.

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Retailer Mandates Are Like Dominoes

AB&R

Two decades ago, the retailer required that suppliers add tags to all goods supplied to stores throughout its chain. Many viewed this as a positive sign for the future, predicting other retailers would follow the example and issue tagging mandates of their own. and has those businesses ship the purchased items directly to customers.

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The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch

The Logistics of Logistics

Andrew Lynch is President and co-founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. In recent years, many large retailers began using OTIF to measure their supplier’s performance. Relationships with the retailer are hurt. third-party?logistics.

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Can a Start-up save the World’s Largest Retailer

Techgistics

In other words, the fact that Walmart is the largest retailer in the world actually impairs their expansion into eCommerce. As a disruptive new entrant, Amazon, on the other hand, has been able to offer zero margin (or less) services as they are able to poach customers from existing retailers, grocery stores etc.

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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

The retailing giant was the first to introduce the idea, but history shows, it was not an overnight success. Anyone familiar with Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) during the time knows that Walmart’s initial vision was exciting yet ambitious, being that they were the first major retailer to require the technology.

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The West Coast Bottleneck with Brian Rice

The Logistics of Logistics

In the podcast interview Brian shares his insights on the shipment delays on the West Coast that are wreaking havoc on retail, e-commerce, and production supply chains. The US imported the most goods from Canada until 2007 when China replaced our neighbor to the north. ports and rails. trillion in U.S. imports of goods.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

I also forecast dismal retail performance for the holidays. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. Facing massive shortages in building supplies, technology, retail, and automotive, companies begin to redesign supply chains and take analytics more seriously. Lockdowns and Disbelief.