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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Swimsuits and dresses for weddings—you never buy just one,” says Joanie Demer, co-founder of Krazy Coupon Lady. For some online apparel retailers, returns now average 40% of sales. People who buy portable generators during weather emergencies use them until the emergencies have ended, and then those go back too.

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Carter’s: A Story of Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. Based on a heritage of quality and innovation, the designs earned the trust in generations of families. Apparel Performance and Improvement Comparison. Not many companies have cracked this code. Managing complexity is key.

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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

Supply Chain Shaman

Customers are buying less. Amazon’s innovation is redefining eCommerce faster than Wal-Mart can keep up. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. Note that apparel manufacturing is growing and apparel retail is declining.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. Apparel is an example.

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Welcome Puff, The Magic Dragon, to Your Team

Supply Chain Shaman

Pirate ships would lower their flag when puff roared out his name oh. My stepson calls them tidy whiteys) Imagine a boring, basic apparel item. Older men buy less underwear than younger males and their packaging was not as attractive to the female shopper buying for the family. Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

These 36 innovative companies have figured out how to hack their operations, gaining some financial or media recognition for their methods. Kick back, be inspired and happy innovating. The new facility will allow the company to offer two-day shipping to most (about 90%) of the U.S. billion in annual sales across 500 stores.

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Omni-channel Emerging as Top Retail Logistics Issue

Supply Chain Network

The panel will address thought provoking perspectives on the innovative supply chain responses and evolutions that will best support omni-channel business and operational productivity gains. Speaker(s): Rob Bass, Vice President, Distribution, Best Buy Co., Leslie Irvin, Director, Wal-Mart Innovations, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.