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The New Significance of a Logistics Strategy: Role, Success factors, and Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

The success of a company has nothing to do with its form, whether as solely online retailer, a startup or a company evolving from brick and mortar retail. Last but not least, the largest retailer in the world is Walmart. Within a couple of years, these companies experienced massive growth, with turnovers in the billions.

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Walmart’s Notion of Next Generation Online Customer Fulfillment Centers

Supply Chain Matters

There was a super interesting announcement from retailer Walmart last week regarding an additional investment in what is described as next generation online customer fulfillment centers. Beyond the retailer’s existing 31 dedicated E-commerce fulfillment centers, 4,700 retail stores located across the U.S. Bob Ferrari.

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o9 Solutions and Genpact Partner to Digitally Transform Supply Chain of Eckes-Granini

o9 Solutions

This transformation initiative combines Genpact’s decades of expertise in retail and consumer goods, supply chain optimization, and digitally enabled operations with o9’s Digital Brain platform , which is powered by o9’s proprietary Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG) technology for end-to-end supply chain and scenario planning.

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Inventory optimization: German DIY and Garden Center Chain HELLWEG Implements RELEX SCM-Software

RELEX Solutions

With more than 150 DIY and garden centers the HELLWEG group chose RELEX Solutions’ supply chain management software to manage its inventory and master two-stage replenishment via its distribution center. HELLWEG group is an owner-managed, mid-sized retail family business. HELLWEG group employs around 6,000 people.

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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Continue to Stabilize in March and Q1-2023

Supply Chain Matters

The PMI values reflective of Germany and Austria both reached 34-month lows in March while both led in the expansion of post-production inventories. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- May 12 2023

Supply Chain Matters

On May 4, we featured for readers the industry breaking news that Flexport will acquire the logistics the logistics fulfillment operations of online retail platform provider Shopify. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. to Combine with Allkem Ltd. based Livent Corp.

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The History and State of Vehicle Routing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The movement of goods between manufacturers, distribution centres, warehouses, retailers and consumers is happening at unprecedented levels. The procedure searches out the optimal grouping of points, the optimal grouping being defined as that which produces the maximum savings.”