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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

We need planning platforms to keep up with all the changes. 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.

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The Top 15 Retail Trends for 2022

ToolsGroup

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Data source: eMarketer.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button by Lora Cecere , Founder, Supply Chain Insights Supply Chain Leaders Can’t Afford to Guess About the Future The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. These core assumptions are no longer true.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. We can no longer assume that government policy is rational, variability is low or logistics are available. ” Most have the same values in the system as when it was installed.

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Digital Path to Purchase Decreases Retailers’ Reliance on Holiday Shopping

Enterra Insights

Amazon’s Prime Day in July, for example, has led to more retailers like Target, Walmart and Kohl’s offering steep discounts on toys, apparel and electronics during the summer, in a bid to stay competitive. Consumers are demanding faster shipping, better visibility and excellent customer experience from the places they shop.

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How Manufacturers Can Take Control of Inventory with RFID Technology

QAD

Manufacturers and their suppliers the world over are looking in every nook and cranny for opportunities to build resilience against disruption and I believe some retail companies have found one that deserves another look: radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. What is RFID Technology?

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. Building New Structures Using New Building Blocks.