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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. Now, we can do better than that by using advanced analytics, which can be extended to include more dimensions, such as trends, and provide further insights. Asena holds B.S.

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Is the Metaphor of War Appropriate in a Business Setting?

Enterra Insights

2] As that press release noted, “Enterra Business WarGaming integrates with SAP S/4HANA® and SAP S/4HANA® Cloud and delivers anticipatory analytics to systemically scale enterprise competitiveness and resiliency for customers.” Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015. [6]

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning. Asena holds B.S.

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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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RS Group releases report on its activities and strategy for Environmental, Social and Governance

Synovos

This has been made possible through modal shifts from air to sea or air to road and optimizing its supply chain to source, store and ship more products locally. In addition, RS is supporting its suppliers in working towards and achieving their own ESG goals by launching a supplier ESG action plan and handbook.

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The Top 15 Retail Trends for 2022

ToolsGroup

Data source: eMarketer. And based on Placer Lab’s data , the investment looks promising, with monthly 2021 monthly in-store visits up across the board in comparison to 2019: Image source: Placer.ai. Image source: Bring Me the News. Data source: First Insights. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories.

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Manufacturing Operations Management Software: A Plant Manager’s Handbook For Improved Shop Floor Control And Productivity

ThroughPut

Single-source Of Up-to-date Processing Data MOM Software can help plant managers maintain a single unique source of critical engineering data. ELI takes away the pain of slow manual operations using AI-powered automated analytics. This is possible through lean manufacturing principles and operational quality compliance.