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The Fashion Retail Supply Chain is a Speed Game Now More Than Ever

Locus

While the top apparel and accessory brands agree that product quality should get better with time, inventory priorities are always fluctuating. A recent example of this is the Suez Canal blockage , when a container ship was wedged in the canal, bringing freight movement to a halt and leading to delays in deliveries. million by 2025.

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Tips for Retailers (And All Shippers) to Overcome the Amazon Effect

GlobalTranz

The Growth of Parcel Shipping on the Rise Thanks to the Amazon Effect Overall, parcel shipping is growing at a robust 10-percent clip as all other freight modes are basically flat, growing at a very modest 1 percent. The impact is being felt globally as China’s parcel spend increased by 45 percent year-over-year.

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6 Essential Procurement Training Courses for Professionals: How To Begin and Advance Your Career in Procurement

SCMDOJO

This procurement training course is taught by Corey Weekes who is based in Toronto, Canada and is a co-founder and Managing Partner at the EIGHTY-FOUR GROUP Supply Chain Consulting company as well as a Senior Warehousing and Transportation Director at one of Canada’s leading and most globally recognized luxury apparel brands.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

US homes 8 retailers keeping Earth Day alive through a commitment to sustainability Ground parcel delivery costs reached a record high in Q1, although pricing discounts from carriers softened the blow, according to the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index. The portion of the index tracking ground parcel rates per package in Q1 was 29.5 percent for Q4.

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10 COVID-19 Lessons for a Resilient Supply Chain

DynaSys

Examples: Apparel and other general merchandise, home repair, furniture. Your Finance department is minding this metric in particular. When it comes to your customers and how they react to the pandemic crisis, what you find can also apply to some of the demand crises you encounter in the future. Above all, preserve your cash.

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Better Together: “The Promise of Supply Chain Sustainability”

BlueYonder

For example, would we be willing to wait an extra day or two for our online orders to be delivered if we were to understand the impact of the decision on sustainability metrics? As a result, they have reduced their spend on air freight, a costly remedy for shipping delays, by almost 90%. This also helps lower their carbon footprint.

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Reimagine Supply Chain of the Future – agile, resilient, and balanced – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Zara has become Europe’s most profitable apparel brands by building agility end to end in their supply chains. To create flexible and balanced supply chain organisation, it is necessary to integrate strategy, processes, metrics, and technology enterprise wide and across customers, suppliers, and service providers.