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Learnings from Target’s 2024 Financial and Operational Performance

Supply Chain Matters

retailer Target’s recent reporting of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. based retailers would provide the best indicators of retail industry customer fulfillment trends including various changing strategies in inventory management and customer fulfilment efforts, along with restoring higher profitability levels.

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Walmart’s Impressive Q4 and FY2023 Financial Performance

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives to retailer Walmart’s report of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. The company’s retail business unit indicated that it was able to decrease its cost to serve an individual online fulfillment order for the first time since 2018. billion in 2022.

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Megatrends Reshaping Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies are beginning to explore on-demand manufacturing rather than traditional manufacturing models, meaning they can keep less physical inventory on-hand. billion in 2018. Last mile logistics challenges is not just about ecommerce, it is also about urbanization. Its list of accomplishments is staggering.

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Amazon’s Blowout 2023 Financial Performance

Supply Chain Matters

Holiday Quarter Financial Performance Online retail platform and last mile logistics services provider Amazon reported what was widely depicted as an impressive or “ blowou t” financial performance for the quarter ending in December. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Accenture Acquires Global Logistics Consulting Firm Flo Group Global based consulting and other services firm Accenture has reportedly acquired European based global logistics consulting services firm Flo Group. The deal reportedly will further enhance Oracle’s logistics software deployment capabilities across Europe.

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The Internet of Things and the Retail Industry

C3 Solutions

What's interesting is how the use of IoT technologies to track inventory throughout the supply chain can dovetail with the kind of visibility you gain when you implement a best-of-breed dock scheduling system from C3 Solutions. The benefits of having real-time visibility into on-hand and in-transit inventory is obvious. IoT Evolution.

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Making The Case for an AI-Driven Transportation Management Software

ThroughPut

Transportation and logistics management in mid to large scale companies essentially translates into specific time driven outcomes – We are talking about the speed in decision-making, speed in reducing cycle-times, speed in operations, and speed in continuous improvement.