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ToolsGroup-IHL Group 2022 Retail Inventory Study Shows Diminishing Customer Loyalty Due to Out-of-Stock Concerns

ToolsGroup

Improving inventory position can help retailers secure consumer loyalty and capture impulse spending. In July 2022, IHL and ToolsGroup surveyed U.S. consumers on their loyalty to and trust of retailers, as well as their reasons for choosing online or in-store shopping. About ToolsGroup.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- March 5 2022 Edition

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our March 5, 2022 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based blog readership. RightHand Robotics Secures $66 Million in Series C Funding.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. There are no value network solutions in the market to enable plan/source/make and deliver visibility holistically. Your wallet has a social security or a passport number.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech December 13 2022 Edition

Supply Chain Matters

This action represents a reported 77 percent premium to the company’s closing stock price on November 22, 2022, the last full trading day prior to media reports involving a potential transaction. According to reporting by the Boston Globe , Locus presently generates $100 million a year in revenue, but hasn’t reached positive cash flow yet.

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The Future of Global Trade

Enterra Insights

In July 2020, Analysts from the Boston Consulting wrote, “The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered perhaps the greatest shocks to international trade since the Great Depression. 10] They agree “western nations and organizations need to diversify their manufacturing and sourcing portfolios outside of China.” 9] Robert J.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

This past Monday marked the first normal Boston Marathon since 2019, as the 2020 marathon was canceled due to the Covid pandemic, and the 2021 marathon was shifted to October with a smaller field. The company, in a look toward the 2022 holiday season, said it is advancing deliveries of key items to ensure that they are available.

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Realities Impact the Global Ocean Container Industry

Supply Chain Matters

The invention of the ocean container as a means for inter-modal sea and surface transportation movements have orchestrated the march toward lowest cost global based sourcing of components and materials. The net result was that global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022.