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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

Much of the finger-pointing involved the movement of shipping containers into and out of port facilities. For the supply chain to work smoothly, a complex and highly choreographed dance, involving both full and empty shipping containers, must be performed. More than 80 ships stretched to the distance — a new record. ”[1].

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

Earlier this week, I read a sobering report from the national Retail Federation (NRF) regarding shrink. The recently released National Retail Security Survey shows that total shrink in 2021 reported by retailers is now almost a $100 billion problem. Most reported in-store, e-commerce, and omni-channel fraud are all on the rise.

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Target’s Acknowledgement and Plan to Address Excess Inventory

Supply Chain Matters

In our Supply Chain Matters commentaries focused on online customer fulfillment and especially the 2021 holiday fulfilment period, we cautioned retail and consumer goods supply chain management teams to be watchful for the bullwhip effect in inventory planning and replenishment needs to support expected customer demand.

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Fulfillment Improvements Essential in Light of High-volume 2017 Holiday Sales

RFgen

The 2017 holiday shopping season left us with plenty to learn moving forward. It’s only April but, if you’re in retail, chances are you’re beginning to unpack the 2017 holiday season and explore what you can improve upon for next year. The 2017 Holiday Season in a Nutshell. billion, which exceeded expectations.

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Fulfillment Improvements Essential in Light of High-volume 2017 Holiday Sales

RFgen

The 2017 holiday shopping season left us with plenty to learn moving forward. It’s only April but, if you’re in retail, chances are you’re beginning to unpack the 2017 holiday season and explore what you can improve upon for next year. The 2017 Holiday Season in a Nutshell. billion, which exceeded expectations.

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Does your supply chain hear the change coming?

Kinaxis

Walmart brings extreme fulfillment expertise to the table, and Google has the technologies for language processing, artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics. An agile way of dealing with flexible fulfillment, shipping and return options is required. You download the app and can start shopping. What does this mean for supply chains?

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E2open Holds User Forum on New On-time In-Full (OTIF) Package

E2open

Monday 3 April 2017. Effective February 2017, Walmart is requiring its suppliers to meet either a same-day or two-day shipping window instead of its previous four-day window and has upped its required compliance rate from 90% to 95% (Source: Walmart’s new on-time delivery standards may create supply chain challenges for its suppliers ).