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Retail Sales and Operations Teams Need to Up Their Game in Inventory Management Agility and Responsiveness

Supply Chain Matters

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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Logistics Imperatives to Manage Uncertainty and Disruptions in 2022: Part 2

BlueYonder

This is Part 2 of a multi-part series addressing logistics imperatives necessary to manage uncertainly and disruptions heading into 2022. This dramatically cuts down on the physical and analytical demands placed on supply chain professionals every day. . You can find Part 1 here.

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This Year’s Shifts in Retail Consumer Demand May Not Have Been That Sudden

Supply Chain Matters

The Wall Street Journal reported this week ( Paid subscription or metered view ), that fashion and apparel retailer Macy’s has managed to avoid the significant excess merchandise inventory levels that are challenging other retailers. We recommend that our readers have a view of this report.

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

Raw materials and component shortages, labor shortfalls, port closures, rising fuel costs and other forces will continue to exert enormous pressures on global supply chains in 2022. It’s certainly no secret that the global logistics industry, like many other industries, is closing out 2021 in the midst of a true labor crisis.

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Supply Chain Resilience: What is it and how do you boost it?

Unleashed

Other recent changes the company has made include early ordering for key ingredients to circumvent disruptions in the global transport system. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supply chain disruptions The crisis has been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters Most Read Blogs in 2021- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

Highlights included highlights of the project44 acquisition of Ocean Insights , the planned IPO of autonomous trucking tech firm TuSimple , the $150 million added funding round of Locus Robotics , and the coming together of two supply chain risk assessment firms Resilience360 and Risk Pulse under the rebranded name of Everstream Analytics.

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Why Blockchain Within The Supply Chain Makes Perfect Sense

GlobalTranz

This newfound visibility allows participants in a supply chain to proactively optimize components of their processes (like inventory management, staffing decisions, and a thousand more) to support an efficient and agile product path. from the global economy by 2022.