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Transforming the Grocery Shopping Experience with Last Mile Delivery

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Last mile delivery can be defined as the transportation and delivery of goods to end-users as fast as possible. Retailers who had their partner at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis actually thrived and increased their sales – all thanks to advanced analytics and digital platforms. . What is last mile delivery?

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4 unstoppable forces that WILL change your end-to-end supply chain

Kinaxis

The current categorization of G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA) won’t be applicable. The big data it’s providing means more insight into consumer demand, but only if you have the analytics and data structure to support it. The result is lower transportation costs since trucks aren’t going out partially filled.

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Will Consumer Goods Be Stronger from the Pandemic?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Even as lockdowns have eased, there has been a change in consumer behaviour, such as professional office workers now choosing to work from home to reduce their exposure to public transport. For example, FMCG demand grew by over ten percent in Italy, and by just under ten percent in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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COPAN and ToolsGroup Create an AI-Driven Supply Chain to Fight COVID-19

ToolsGroup

MILAN and BOSTON, July 21, 2020 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, and COPAN Group, the world leader in the production of pre-analytics and bacteriology swabs, viral transport media, and systems for molecular biology, announced today a joint initiative to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ToolsGroup Congratulates Three Customer Recipients of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2021 Women in Supply Chain Award

ToolsGroup

Michela Vesta has consistently and effectively demonstrated her leadership and commitment to supply chain agility and resilience at RAJA, which distributes more than 5,000 packaging and office supply products to 100,000 customers throughout Italy.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

By leveraging demand sensing and the Multi-tier Inventory Optimization (MEIO) platform– using machine learning and some cognitive technologies–from Terra Technology on top of SAP APO, Shell successfully launched an analytics platform initiative to improve the demand signal and reduce safety stock.

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10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Italy locked down the country. Alternative demand/supply planning models and advanced digital analytics are potential options but the rapidity of the change in demand, and hence supply, have been historic and unprecedented. This Supply Chain mapping must also include your transportation service suppliers. And the U.S.