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The Quietly Growing Conundrum of Online Returns

Logistics Viewpoints

As online shopping continues to grow – retail e-commerce sales are expected to make up nearly a quarter of total retail sales worldwide by 2026 – returns will become more prevalent. Online consumers today have come to expect cost-free and hassle-free online returns policies. In the U.S,

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Smaller cities become new hubs in the Indian warehousing landscape.

20Cube Logistics

With the government policies supporting the manufacturing activities in India, warehousing becomes the next big thing. The space requirement for warehousing is expected to reach 483 million square feet by 2026, growing at 12.77% CAGR. India’s warehousing market, currently $12.2 billion, is expected to increase to $19.5

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Ford Motor Moves Deeper Into Supply Network Vertical Integration

Supply Chain Matters

based Albemarle providing upwards of 100,000 metric tons of battery grade lithium hydroxide to supply 3 million Ford EV batteries starting in 2026. Farley additionally indicated that this auto maker is “ pretty much done ” in locking mining and processing capacity needed to support upwards of 2 million EV vehicle production needs by 2026.

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Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2023 Highlights: A Human-Centric Approach to Unlocking Productivity

Locus

While we have long worked on the process side of things, and continue to deepen our expertise there, Tom’s focus on making returns seamless, convenient through diverse options , and easy to understand through a clear returns policy struck a chord. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission.

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Building Resilient Supply Chains is Hard — but Essential

Enterra Insights

It’s like investing in an insurance policy: you don’t want to pay for more insurance than you need but you don’t want to be underinsured either. He suggests using a bit of common sense. He explains, “We advise clients to focus on investments that will give the best resilience returns, given their risk profile.

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Circularity and the future of the digital product passport

o9 Solutions

This blog explores how policy developments such as the digital product passport (DPP) alongside supply chain software can play a role as enablers. The DPP is a promising policy instrument, but there are still open questions regarding the DPP’s final design and implementation. What is the digital product passport (DPP)?

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Reimagining IBP in the Age of AI

Supply Chain Trend

Specifically for supply chain, Gartner estimates are that short term planning decisions will be automated for 65% in 2026. IA’s can be applied to decision trees, using pre-negotiated decision policies, in order to augment, automate and learn from decisions. Estimates are that 32% of work can be automated, and 42% augmented.