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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Shipping items back and forth creates needless greenhouse gas emissions, and only 54% of all packaging gets recycled.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability. 5 A Focus on Functional Metrics Throws the Supply Chain Out of Balance.

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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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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

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

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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. These included cloud-based computing, in-memory processing, parallel computation, and open-source analytics. Open Source analytics. open-source analytics. Clean Data.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Note that apparel manufacturing is growing and apparel retail is declining. Traditional supply chains ship cases, pallets and trucks; but not the EACH. With the dawn of eCommerce, companies must now ship the EACH. We how have the endless aisle with the need to ship the EACH. The difference? The difference?

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Prescriptive Analytics for Supply Chain Optimization: 6 Powerful Use Cases 

ThroughPut

These analytics techniques serve as essential tools to transform descriptive metrics into actionable insights and informed decisions. A case study that perfectly depicts the use of prescriptive analytics for pricing and promotion optimization is that of a global apparel giant that ThroughPut worked with.