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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite supply chain leaders has a stack of Palantir reports in black binders on his desk. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. The Rubikloud acquisition was a $60M cash purchase.

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Touchless Black Friday

Enterra Insights

Journalist Melissa Repko ( @melissa_repko ) reports, “As the holiday season approaches, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is adding a common annual tradition to its higher risk category: Shopping at crowded stores. The importance of the digital path to purchase. Touchless Black Friday. ”[5]. Footnotes. [1]

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A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? Acronym Babble? Digital Icing on a Stale Cake? Yes, I Think So.

Supply Chain Shaman

Buzz words filled the air at the NRF Big Show, held at the Javitz Convention Center in New York last week. In short, we cannot put a wrapper around ERP, traditional reporting, or traditional fulfillment and call it Big Data, Customer-Centric Retailing or Omni-Channel Fulfillment. The air was thick. Acronym Babble Falls Short.

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Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

This dispute has left a damaging effect on our industry—causing extreme delays and millions in lost sales,” the American Apparel & Footwear Association said, as reported in the WSJ. “If In 2013, the average moves per-vessel, per-hour for ports in Asia was about 90, while European ports averaged 67 and ports in the Americas averaged 62.

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World’s Largest Auto Recall Causes Demand for New Supplier Solutions

RFgen

Manufacturers working with suppliers have to carefully monitor purchases to ensure the final product meets the necessary quality and safety standards consumers demand. When a problem is detected during inventory management processes, a company must work with partners to fix the mistake or find a new vendor. Keeping Customers Safe.

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World’s Largest Auto Recall Causes Demand for New Supplier Solutions

RFgen

Manufacturers working with suppliers have to carefully monitor purchases to ensure the final product meets the necessary quality and safety standards consumers demand. When a problem is detected during inventory management processes, a company must work with partners to fix the mistake or find a new vendor. Keeping Customers Safe.

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Tackling the Blind Spots in Omni-Channel Merchandising: Research from EKN and Sahir Anand

BlueYonder

SCN: Your Omni-Channel Merchandising Strategies study reports that the top business challenge retailers face is the need to maximize gross margin, closely coupled with the need to minimize markdowns. ” The high-level challenges and top merchandising challenges have not differed from 2013 to 2014. Here is an excerpt.