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This Week in Logistics News (November 25 – December 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

To help manage the holiday rush, Amazon is using artificial intelligence to offer customers even faster deliveries. The company is boasting its quickest delivery time yet, saying that packages are being prepared for dispatch within 11 minutes of an order placement at same-day facilities. The turnout topped last year’s figure of 196.7

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7 Ways AI Can Impact Your Supply Chain and Logistics Operations

Stord

Love it or fear it, Artificial Intelligence appears to be the new normal in everything, including supply chain and logistics operations. The End of “Where Is My Order” Tickets AI functionality integrated with order management and customer support systems could significantly boost consumer satisfaction.

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Fulfillment Forecasting: The Keys to Successfully Aligning to Localized Customer Demand

BlueYonder

A large department store in North America faced challenges with soaring fulfillment costs and decreasing margins, both placing pressure on the business. The wanted to leverage stores to help fulfill orders but weren’t sure how to balance the inventory needed to satisfy in-store, omni-channel, and ship-from-store customer purchases.

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How to Ensure Effective Third-Party Deliveries and Excellence in Your E-commerce Logistics Operations

Locus

However, it was not until the introduction of D2C (Direct to Consumer) fulfillment that this fully came into play. D2C: The fulfillment model that gave brands full control In the wake of the global pandemic, businesses could not rely entirely on online or offline presence. Apple’s D2C sales grew from 29% in 2018 to 38% in 2022.

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Fulfillment Forecasting: The Keys to Successfully Meeting Omni-Channel Demand

BlueYonder

Market-based demand forecasting to help you predict orders and resources Retailers are facing increasing pressure to offer affordable, reliable and frictionless omni-channel fulfillment experiences. that are dependent on order volume. totes, refrigerators, trucks, etc.)

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Cognitive Technologies in the Retail Space

Enterra Insights

Some of the momentum was created by the rising importance of social media. The Value of Cognitive Computing in Retail Cognitive computing is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI), which, like most AI systems, leverages machine learning as well as other technologies. Consider your social media activity.

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How Improved Hub Operations Reduce Time Under The Roof

Locus

Technological integration deficits may give rise to inefficiencies in inventory management, route optimization , and customer communication. By leveraging intelligent algorithms, orders can be strategically sorted to ensure faster dispatch, reducing waiting times and increasing overall throughput. They say that time is money.