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What You Need To Know About The State Of The Retail Worker Shortage

ToolsGroup

How to Hire in a Labor Shortage and Meet Customer Expectations. With reports of retail layoffs and overstaffing at companies (such as Walmart and Amazon) to cover Omicron-related staffing shortages, it would appear the shortage of workers may be abating. As per a recent report by CNBC , the labor department in the United States has 5.5

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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

An enlightened leadership team wanted to be sure that the organization knew how to make money through bi-directional orchestration of the bill of materials. The team understood the importance of margin management, focusing only on cost as an input to margin. Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases.

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Trends 2021: Consumer Packaged Goods

Enterra Insights

”[1] CPG reporter Paul Hiebert ( @hiebertpaul ) believes the CPG sector’s strong performance will continue in 2021. As most people know, the pandemic and resulting lockdowns forced consumers to use the digital path to purchase for many of the products they desired to buy, including food.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Third wave supply-chain planning software will play the machine role in the human-machine collaboration, enabling the knowledge worker to manage large amounts of data, use advanced analytics, and automate processes and decisions across the enterprise and the wider value chain. Augmentation of decision making doesn’t necessarily require AI.

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Machine Learning and Decision-making

Enterra Insights

The decisions range from big, one-off strategic choices (such as where to locate the next multibillion-dollar plant) to everyday frontline decisions that add up to a lot of value over time (such as whether to suggest another purchase to a customer). They report, “We know from extensive research that decisions matter — a lot.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Learn more on how to overcome today’s supply chain challenges by securing the free guide, 8 Winning Strategies to Combat Supply Shortages. How the Supply Chain Crisis is Impacting Businesses and Consumers. Global paper output is expected to be 4 million tons short of its 2018 level, with predictions of 416 million tons in 2022.

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Ultimate guide to technologies that are transforming supply chains

6 River Systems

Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers , AI’s potential contribution to the global economy by 2030 is $15.7