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Prescriptive Analytics for Supply Chain Optimization: 6 Powerful Use Cases 

ThroughPut

If there’s any piece of technology or analytics that can help with the most advanced data-driven decision-making in the supply chain right now, that’s prescriptive analytics. It is the most promising form of analytics in the market currently. What Is Prescriptive Analytics in Supply Chain? How should the supplier perform?

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Iron Sustainability into All Tiers of Your Apparel Supply Chain

Logility

9 critical tips for increasing supply chain sustainability in the apparel industry. Building sustainability into the apparel supply chain requires working with both first-tier and lower-tier suppliers. Traceability solutions can help improve sustainability throughout the apparel supply chain. Key Takeaways.

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

Logistics Viewpoints

There is so much data, and to make use of it, we need to use data mining and analytics to drive meaningful insights that can be put to some good use. ABC analysis creates product segments by grouping products with similar sales volume or purchase frequency to enable category managers to focus on what matters most.

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

This means they are more likely to focus on value and affordability and change their priorities and brand preferences when making purchases. They are more likely to shop for discounts and sales and may delay purchases of some items. Due to the workforce layoffs, consumers have less disposable income.

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The Digital Path to Purchase becomes a Digital High Street

Enterra Insights

Daphne Howland ( @daphnehowland ) reports, “As stores were forced to close, digital sales were expected to take over. ”[1] As a result of increased ecommerce, the digital path to purchase has become a high street for retail sales. ” It may be less than ideal, but on the digital path to purchase, the consumer rules.

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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

This means we need more agile, flexible, and scalable planning platforms to process and consolidate new data sources, drive insights using advanced analytics such as AI/ML to drive autonomous decisions, and expand collaboration within and outside our organizations. We need planning platforms to keep up with all the changes.

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Keeping Up with Consumers

Enterra Insights

. … Most of those trading down [actions] either adjusted the quantity or pack size of their purchases (60 percent), which is the primary method of trading down for necessities, or decided to postpone a purchase (44 percent), typically for nonessential items. In January: Report ,” MediaPost, 10 February 2023. [3]