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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Increasing Points of Interaction and Delivering Omnichannel Fulfillment Since the start of the pandemic, shoppers have been changing their shopping patterns and are now relying more on online shopping and mobile apps and asking for faster deliveries. Returns are indisputably bad for the climate. in 2021 compared to the year before.

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Going Omnichannel in Orlando & Reaching the Item Level RFID Tipping Point

Supply Chain Network

Just about every year the RILA Logistics Conference is one of the best Events I attend and pleased to say #RILALogistics 2013 was no exception. Bill’s premise was that a retailer’s success with omnichannel required Item Level RFID, as inventory accuracy across the supply chain and especially in store was key.

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Holiday 2014: How to Avoid Last Year’s Disaster

The Network Effect

It’s no secret that Holiday 2013 was a disaster for final delivery. The final delivery capacity problem for Holiday 2014 does not result in a solution to the Holiday 2013 problem. Lack of discipline: There is hope that nationwide parcel carriers have better discipline in 2014 than 2013, but this is not yet clear.

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Flexible Warehousing with Flexe CEO Karl Siebrecht

The Logistics of Logistics

Karl is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flexe , a company that solves the hardest omnichannel logistics problems for the world’s largest retailers and brands. About Karl Siebrecht Karl Siebrecht is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flexe, a company that solves the hardest omnichannel logistics problems for the world’s largest retailers and brands.

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Omnichannel Retail: How Retailers Can Compete in the Omnichannel World of Amazon

GlobalTranz

While the outlook sounds grim for smaller businesses, competing with the omnichannel retail capacity of Amazon is still possible, and retailers need to know how. Ship-From-Store Will Enable Competition With Amazon. In response, Walmart lowered its free-shipping threshold, but consumers are still flocking to Amazon.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 6-10, 2014)

Talking Logistics

The omnichannel retail chess pieces keep moving, and Amazon made a strategic move this week. As I’ve commented before, the line between stores and warehouses is beginning to blur, with more and more retailers enabling ship-from-store operations. percent from August 2013. August 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI).

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Touchless Black Friday

Enterra Insights

Supply chains will be strained like never before as businesses try to keep up with record e-commerce purchases, with distribution centers hiring tens of thousands more workers to package and ship orders.” 1] Maxwell Strachan, “‘ Black Friday’ Originally Meant Something Much, Much Darker ,” Huffington Post, 27 November 2013. [2]