Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 16, 2021

One of the least welcome consequences of supply chain snarls and labor shortages is rising inflation — and the food industry has been impacted like every other economic sector. ”[1] His prediction proved accurate. ”[1] His prediction proved accurate. percent from September 2021 to October 2021 and was 5.4

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout. Supply chain strategy, process, talent and enabling technologies each play important roles. The supply chain supporting the delivery of equipment is the de-facto facilitator of this business model.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Justin Swanson ( @ejsnyt ) reports, “Retail sales in the United States jumped nearly 11 percent this season compared with the holiday period in 2019, the year before the pandemic upended the global economy.”[1] Digital Path to Purchase taken more often. Swanson reports, “Online sales made up 20.9 Journalist E.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. The report authors noted that this index, when calculated without the impact of China would have posted a 53.2 reported for March. reported for March. value, up from 53.1

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Enterra Insights

JULY 9, 2021

For example, Michael Browne ( @mbtravel ), Executive Editor of Supermarket News , reports, “Panic-driven, stock-up shopping drove massive grocery store visit growth in the first few weeks of March 2020.”[1] ”[1] Everyone remembers empty store shelves once occupied by toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and cleaning supplies. .”[4]

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Such an outcome has significant implications for supply chain sustainability. Is just transition another short-lived buzzword that will have minimal impact on supply chain operations, or is it something more substantial? If this prediction turns out to be true, what are the implications for supply chain sustainability?

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Last December, reporter Jeanna Smialek wrote, “Inflation has become central to the American zeitgeist in 2021 in a way that it hadn’t been for decades.”[1] ” What the authors are trying to explain is how much purchasing power a specific amount of money had relative to today. ” Inflation Explained.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Reporter Erika Edwards ( @erikaedwardsnbc ), and her colleague Dr. Akshay Syal, observe, “Hospitals nationwide are preparing for another winter with Covid — the first one that’s also expected to include high levels of influenza and other respiratory illnesses that have simmered quietly in the background for the past two years.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 11, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights Rivian Automotive’s reported operational performance in the latest quarter, but at the same time continued challenges in the months to come. The overall perception seems to be that Rivian has finally turned the corner in terms of supply chain and operational performance.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The bane of e-commerce is the large percentage of purchased items that are returned. As noted in the initial installment of this article, Elise Dopson reports, “Data suggests that 20% of online-bought products are returned, compared to just 9% of items bought in a brick-and-mortar store.”[1] Making the Best of a Growing Challenge.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 23, 2022

Just when brick-and-mortar retailers thought the so-called “retail apocalypse” was ending, supply chain woes and rising inflation reined in their optimism. Journalist Amy Sokolow ( @amysokolow ) reports that analysts from Deloitte insist that physical retailers must undergo a “Great Retail Reset.”[3].

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 23, 2022

Just when brick-and-mortar retailers thought the so-called “retail apocalypse” was ending, supply chain woes and rising inflation reined in their optimism. Journalist Amy Sokolow ( @amysokolow ) reports that analysts from Deloitte insist that physical retailers must undergo a “Great Retail Reset.”[3].

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “ Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.”. In today’s age of great volatility, agility has become the new competitive differentiator.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 10, 2022

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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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In a new paper submitted to the peer-reviewed Artificial Intelligence journal, scientists at U.K.-based ” McKinsey & Company analysts, Jacomo Corbo, Oliver Fleming, and Nicolas Hohn, note that reinforcement learning was used in advance of the 2021 America’s Cup yacht races to improve boat design and performance.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 25, 2021

Despite growing optimism about the end of the pandemic, retail correspondent Lauren Thomas ( @laurenthomas ) reports, “Coresight Research predicts as many as 10,000 stores could close in the U.S. If anyone was in doubt about the future of retail,” he writes, “the purchase of Debenhams by Boohoo has surely sealed the deal.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 11, 2021

Long before the pandemic forced shoppers online, the trend was clear: Consumers were increasingly taking the digital path to purchase. Tech-celeration and the digital path to purchase. ”[1] He adds, “Grannies have discovered online shopping.” ”[2]. ”[3] And a lot of those Boomers are grandmothers.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2021

Hausman reports that many companies haven’t learned that lesson. George Karapalidis ( @gkarapalidis ), head of data science at Vertical Leap, explains the purpose of each type of analytics.[3] Descriptive analytics. Descriptive analytics can help discover what happened in the past. Diagnostic analytics.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

One retail sector that witnessed a dramatic rise in online purchases during the pandemic was the grocery sector. Analysts from Chicory note, “The grocery shopper’s path to purchase from digital to in-store and other online environments has always been obscure.”[2] The Wall Street Journal, 16 April 2022. [5]

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters industry specific commentary, we make the observation that retail industry sales and operations planning and demand support teams, given the current state of recent business financial performance, need to up their game in supply network inventory management agility and added responsiveness. .

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Supply Chain Matters calls reader attention to a published report that indicates for one retailer, the sudden shift in consumer demand this year may not have been that sudden. We recommend that our readers have a view of this report.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 25, 2022

Minkow reports her company’s top ten retailers this year are: Target, Apple Store, Sephora, Home Depot, DSW, Levi Strauss, Nike, Walmart, American Eagle, and Ulta. ” Complicating this challenge is the fact that consumers can easily hop on and off the digital path to purchase. That isn’t always easy.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 16, 2022

Real estate journalist Will Parker ( @_willparker_ ) reports, “The last mile in the e-commerce delivery process looks like a windfall for real-estate owners. ”[5] He notes that several new business models have emerged in recent years. The Swiss project is not the only last mile innovation in the works.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 16, 2022

Real estate journalist Will Parker ( @_willparker_ ) reports, “The last mile in the e-commerce delivery process looks like a windfall for real-estate owners. ”[5] He notes that several new business models have emerged in recent years. The Swiss project is not the only last mile innovation in the works.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights perspectives and added insights on reported August 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. reported for July and 48.8 reported for June.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is his third guest blog on Supply Chain View From the Field. Supply chain partners have been using EDI , a standard electronic format, to share data and transact business for more than sixty years, and it continues to evolve. Craig Lukasik has been busy! And it’s good one!

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 18, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports that Rivian Automotive fell short of its 2022 vehicle production goal and that several top executives have departed the company, including the company’s purchasing head. In December 2021, the company announced plans to invest in a second U.S. Executive Departures.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

They fought back and were making headway against private-label products at the end of 2021. Last September, food journalist Christopher Doering ( @cdoering ) reported, “Private label brands have struggled to keep up with brand name offerings during the past year, according to data from IRI. to $142 billion.”[3] Footnotes.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

… With an ever-complex consumer purchasing path, it can be difficult for a brand to know where exactly to adjust their efforts. Data and advanced analytics. Data analytics and cognitive risk sensing are becoming increasingly important tools for organizations.” ”[2]. CPG industry and cognitive technologies.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Being present across all channels means having a digital presence and Tranquill insists, “Omnichannel analytics are indispensable for today’s care centers and marketing operations.” People (and our purchasing decisions!) … Luckily, these days, you don’t have to gather such information manually. .

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives on reported June 2023 and Q2-2023 quarterly global and regional PMI indices. The June numbers signal renewed contraction of global wide production within global supply chain networks. The June reported value of 48.8 value reported for May.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 21, 2021

Lumber and microprocessors are two of the long list of product categories in short supply, causing major supply chain disruptions. There are various reasons for the scarcities, but pandemic-related disruptions to supply and demand are at the core of the problem. We are already seeing this in the lumber market.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The mad dash begins to finish all the work that needs to get done before 2018 arrives, so without delay, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: E-Commerce Boosts U.S. Logility Acquires Halo Business Intelligence to Expand Advanced Analytics. Kane Is Able Purchases Vintners Logistics.

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Intelligent Audit

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In January, the National Retail Federation (NRF) reported that: Retailers expect consumers to return more than $761 billion in merchandise purchased in 2021. Of that total, nearly 30% ($218 billion) were online purchases. The number of returns is quickly increasing. the year prior. .

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In today’s Wall Street Journal , I was interviewed regarding a case that was just filed against Amazon by a large robotics , claiming that the e-commerce giant backed away from promises made early in the Covid-19 pandemic to support the supplier with millions of dollars in new purchases.

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Cathy Roberson

APRIL 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in dramatic shifts in volume characteristics for many transportation providers - first in supplying retailers in inventory restocking and direct to consumer and then, along with retail restocking and direct to consumer, supporting manufacturers as facilities reopened during the second half of the year.

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