USC Consulting Group

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For instance, while a number of economists anticipated real estate would likely be hard-hit, the combination of solid economic fundamentals as well as record-low interest rates have kept the industry humming. Engaged buyers and highly limited inventory have kept builders hard at work nationwide. is anticipated to be 6.5%

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 30, 2022

As many brands continue to grapple with supply chain challenges and grocery retailers strive to fill the sudden increase in online shopping orders through their brick-and-mortar stores, both must rethink their pre-pandemic notions of ideal store-level inventory levels, category management, and maximizing a store’s footprint and linear real estate.”[3]

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Elementum

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2021, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen optimistically predicted that inflation would be transitory. Real Estate companies Compass and Redfin cut 10% and 8% of their workforces, respectively. Over the last 2 years, Supply Chain teams have been struggling to procure and manufacture enough inventory. Sustained Inflation.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Starboard now has over 1400 users across 70 customers representing Auto, Consumer Goods, Retail, Industrial Products, Consulting, and Real Estate. Noted customers include Porsche , Deloitte , CBRE , Flexe, Geodis, Miele, One Network , and Topco , among others. Reportedly, three customer are currently shared with Logility. .

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With output contracting for the fifth consecutive month and business optimism reportedly dipping to an 11-month low, the report pointed to cutbacks occurring in manufacturing employment, purchasing and inventory levels globally. The October PMI reported value fell to a three-month low of 48.8, down from the 49.2 value reported for September.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The overall pace of decline in overall new business was noted by the report authors as the steepest since January and have led Taiwanese manufacturers to lower their purchasing activities, drawdown inventory levels and continued staff level reductions. The inventories index decreased 2.1 Continued Contraction Levels for the U.S.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 9, 2021

The first half of 2021 brought with it a wave of massive changes, as well as new disruptions that augmented the chaos surrounding the mass vaccinations in the United States. In this blog, I reflect on just a few of the issues we are seeing today, and what they might mean for the remainder of 2021… and beyond.

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ShipBob

APRIL 15, 2024

That means you must see a sufficient return on your inventory investment. In other words, you need to make more money selling your inventory than you spent to acquire, store, and fulfill orders with it. In this post, we’ll cover what GMROI is and why it’s important for your retail inventory management.

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Locus Robotics

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Commercial real estate services firm JLL noted in their Grocery Tracker 2021 report that Kroger opened its first fulfillment center in March of 2021, while Walmart has added automated mini warehouses, of 20,000 to 30,000 square feet, to its current stores to increase delivery and pick-up times for grocery orders.

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Accelogix

JULY 29, 2021

Accelogix, a warehouse automation services firm specializing in software-driven flexible automation, today announced its recognition in 2021 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Supply Chain Execution Technologies by Dwight Klappich as a Sample Vendor within the Multirobot Orchestration category.[1] 1] Gartner, Inc.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 19, 2021

I was going to college with the intention of getting into real estate investment and playing football. I’ve recently been working on transportation partnerships in same-day courier space and small parcel as we turn the page to 2021 to help us bring more options to market for our clients. How can people contact Stephen Beard?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That’s a sharp reversal from 2021 and the first half of 2022, when UPS and FedEx – awash with volume from the early pandemic’s online shopping surge – rebuffed discount requests and cherry-picked the most profitable customers.

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Unleashed

JUNE 1, 2022

To get the latest on what’s happening in the big world of beer we surveyed some of the hundreds of brewers that use Unleashed as their brewery inventory management platform – and spoke to some of the beer industry’s leading commentators. Here are their picks for the biggest beer trends around the world.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 24, 2021

They also have an opportunity to help retail stores manage inventory and provide on-time communication support to customers. The 2020/2021 period saw an increase in consumer demand with a huge shortage of logistics platforms. Manufacturing – Flexible solutions to meet supply chains demand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Retailers’ holiday inventory planning has been fraught with unpleasant supply-chain surprises for two straight years. Inventory discipline is showing up in cargo numbers. Retailers that had big inventory glut problems have worked through the worst of them, and this year’s holiday season is looking better. For example, U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 30, 2021

Newmark, the large commercial real estate firm, put out a report on warehouse labor in the US. In the second quarter of 2021, a record 423.7M Wages grew by 4.25% from January to June 2021 in logistics, a record 6-month gain for the sector. square feet of industrial space was under construction across the nation.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 10, 2023

Who could have predicted the extreme change in the real estate market that we experienced where families could take advantage of large increases in the equity of their homes and investment properties while also facing the dilemma of replacing the properties that they just sold!

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