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Bringing Order to Chaos: Last-Mile Delivery Costs and How to Reduce Them

Locus

Say you purchase your coveted gadget online, eagerly tracking its journey from warehouse to your welcoming hands. Customer satisfaction and keeping costs in check rests on optimal last-mile delivery operations. Read also: How to Calculate the Cost of Transport 2.

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What You Need To Know About The State Of The Retail Worker Shortage

ToolsGroup

How to Hire in a Labor Shortage and Meet Customer Expectations. With reports of retail layoffs and overstaffing at companies (such as Walmart and Amazon) to cover Omicron-related staffing shortages, it would appear the shortage of workers may be abating. As per a recent report by CNBC , the labor department in the United States has 5.5

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Trends 2021: Consumer Packaged Goods

Enterra Insights

”[1] CPG reporter Paul Hiebert ( @hiebertpaul ) believes the CPG sector’s strong performance will continue in 2021. As most people know, the pandemic and resulting lockdowns forced consumers to use the digital path to purchase for many of the products they desired to buy, including food. workforce.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. There is also no Santa Claus.

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Machine Learning and Decision-making

Enterra Insights

The decisions range from big, one-off strategic choices (such as where to locate the next multibillion-dollar plant) to everyday frontline decisions that add up to a lot of value over time (such as whether to suggest another purchase to a customer). They report, “We know from extensive research that decisions matter — a lot.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

On the other hand, augmentation — expanding supply chain knowledge with insights, predictions, and recommendations — maintains human centricity in the decision- making process. Robotic process automation (RPA) has also entered the back-office, supporting administrative functions like purchase order acceptance and invoice matching.

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How to Make Shipping More Sustainable in 3 Simple Steps

Ware2Go

The number of final mile delivery vehicles on the road are expected to increase 36% , and greenhouse gas emissions are projected to increase by 30% overall by 2030 – all due to the ecommerce boom. . How to Make Shipping More Sustainable. Shopping patterns, and therefore shipping patterns, have changed dramatically since 2020.