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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Background The Council of Supply Chain Resilience met for the first time this month. What is supply chain resilience? The reason?

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Kohl’s COO Sona Chawla to Keynote RILA 2018 Retail Supply Chain Conference

Supply Chain Network

Arlington, VA – Today, the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) announced Sona Chawla, Kohl’s chief operating officer, will be the keynote speaker at the 2018 Retail Supply Chain Conference. Walgreens SVP of Supply Chain and Logistics, Reuben Slone. • About RILA.

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Organized Retail Crime is Growing, Losses up 7% from Last Year

Material Handling & Logistics

A National Retail Federation report found that 92% of companies surveyed had been a victim of organized retail crime in the past year. Retailers continue to deal with increasing challenges and complications surrounding organized retail crime,” NRF vice president of loss prevention Bob Moraca said.

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Nestlé USA and Enterra Solutions Sign Multi-Year Cognitive Computing Agreement

Enterra Insights

Our initial efforts are focused on the implementation of an Autonomous Demand Insights module within the Enterra Category Management Intelligent System (ECMIS) as well as the application of the Enterra Enterprise Cognitive System across the Nestlé USA retail partner network.

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Last Mile Logistic Challenges Increase as Online Sales Soar

Enterra Insights

1] Journalist Paul Ziobro ( @pziobro ) reports, “The outlook has sent retailers on the hunt for alternatives with little luck.”[2] This situation is putting the pressure on supply chains to operate at greater and greater scale in order to effect efficiencies.”[6]. 2] He adds, “Smaller carriers in the U.S. ”[6].

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How Returns Management Works: Process, Tips, & Best Practices

Unleashed

One paper from the University of Texas at Arlington suggests that lenience may yield better results than strictness. Reverse logistics , on the other hand, is a returns management activity focused on the process of ensuring returns can be moved along the supply chain in the most cost-effective way.

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Hurricane Harvey Updates

Elementum

in Arlington and Toyota Motor Corp. in San Antonio, appears to have prevented major disruptions; adverse impacts were mainly felt by retailers as they have to shut down operations and may have to wait weeks to ascertain the full extent of damage to their business and inventory. Auto production in Texas, led by General Motors Co.

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