Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives to retailer Walmart’s report of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. Specifically, high inflation and economically stressed consumers have been more selective in their purchase decisions. Net income was reported as $30.4

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 20, 2020

billion by 2025, and businesses can save millions of dollars if reverse logistics management is implemented and done properly. Clearly, more companies need to go back to basics and ask what is reverse logistics’ role in the top trends of the supply chain? “The global reverse logistics market is forecast to hit US$603.90

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SupplyShift

JUNE 23, 2021

Many companies focus solely on their tier one suppliers when it comes to supply chain sustainability. Yet to holistically tackle ESG performance, procurement teams must evaluate their operations at tier two, three, and beyond, as each level of the supply chain carries different risks. Cotton is a great example.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 23, 2021

Many companies focus solely on their tier one suppliers when it comes to supply chain sustainability. Yet to holistically tackle ESG performance, procurement teams must evaluate their operations at tier two, three, and beyond, as each level of the supply chain carries different risks. Cotton is a great example.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

As I’ve done in prior years, I’ll make a few predictions based on what happened in 2022 – and what I think it means for 2023. These predictions are perhaps not completely original – but they represent what I think will be important guidelines for supply chain executives to consider. Inflation will persist.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

How the Supply Chain Crisis is Impacting Businesses and Consumers. 66% of consumers are concerned that supply chain issues will never end ( Chain Store Age ). 82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

They call for a reinvention of traditional IBP that more fully integrates its governing meetings and reporting into operations, enabling faster decision making, better responsiveness to disruption, and liberation for planners to work on more strategic issues. KEY POINTS. at the SKU/location level).

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