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

GlobalTranz

Whether you are a retailer, carrier, cloud services provider, or eCommerce merchant, Amazon not only effected the landscape of e-tail but the landscape of shipping and logistics as a whole. But at its heart continues to be fast and often free shipping, which has become expected by shoppers of not only Amazon but anywhere on or offline.

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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. Staff unavailability, material and component shortages, roadblocks, bottlenecks in transportation and high shipping costs, all contributed to this situation. million by 2025.

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Parcel Shipping: Dimensional Weight and the Post-GRI Blues

Talking Logistics

If you ship printed matter, hardware, or any other products with high density, you may not be impacted at all. Shippers of apparel, footwear, housewares, gifts, etc. Performing packaging studies to ensure that you are using an optimum box mix given your order metrics is always a good idea. So who pays the price?

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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%.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 7-11, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Finds a Faulty Shipping Safety Net for Brexit (WSJ – sub. is deploying robots to retrieve bins filled with apparel, electronics and other products from shelves and deliver them to workers who pick individual items. Here are some excerpts from the article: XPO Logistics Inc.

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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.