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3 ways retail warehousing impacts profitability

6 River Systems

eCommerce growth and the impacts of COVID-19 In 2019, consumers spent $601.75 According to Visual Capitalist , eCommerce demand for disposable gloves grew by a whopping 670% in March 2020 compared to March 2019, while demand for bread machines grew by 652% over the same period. In a survey of 2,500 U.S. billion with U.S.

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

Supply Chain Trend

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. Hippold, Sarah, (2019). He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software. Schwartz, J.

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E-Commerce 101: Going Cross Border, What Brands Must Know

Vinculum

According to Global-e , a cross-border e-commerce enabler, cross-border e-commerce sales increased by 21 percent in 2020 over 2019. The worldwide cross-border e-commerce industry is expected to develop at a 27 percent annual CAGR from 2021 to 2027, reaching $4,8 billion in 2026.

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Top 10 Logistics Trends That Could Impact Supply Chains in 2022

Locus

Billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 9.28% from 2019 to 2026. The number of delivery vehicles on the road will increase by 36% between 2019 and 2030 (top 100 cities globally). – Statista, Direct-to-consumer (D2C) e-commerce sales in the United States from 2019 to 2023, Jun 2021, United States. billion U.S.

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Food is Not Food if It’s Unsafe

Enterra Insights

The staff at Food Safety News reports that a study from the Mars Global Food Safety Center (GFSC), which, at the height of the pandemic, surveyed people in the United States, United Kingdom and China, “found 77 percent of people [believed] food safety is a top 10 worldwide problem.”[4] ” What Can Be Done?

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

Then, as a response to the ‘touchless planning’ hype, I published an article in 2019 about what is really required for ‘autonomous planning’. Enter Decision Intelligence Working for Aera Technology, applying intelligent automation to decision making, helped shape these early ideas further since I joined the company end 2019.

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How do CIOs Overcome Their 3 Biggest Challenges to Give Their Organizations a Strategic Advantage?

TrackVia

In a 2019 survey of over 200 operations executives, leaders reported significant challenges in working with IT. To learn more about these challenges, read the survey: IT Losing Confidence of the Business; Operations Leaders Weigh in on Impacts of Under-Resourced IT. million by 2026.