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How To Reboot Your Supply Chain and Conquer the Top 5 High-Tech Challenges

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Inaccurate forecasts lead to either excess inventory or stockouts, causing increased costs, an abundance of stock that cannot be sold, lost sales and customer dissatisfaction. Rising supply costs and geopolitical issues The high-tech OEM landscape is facing a perfect storm. In response, OEMs are rethinking their strategies.

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How Consumer Habits Are Changing in Grocery, and How To React

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However, at the same time, nonessentials like alcohol within the grocery category are likely to see reduced demand as shoppers reprioritize their budgets.Similarly, as consumers become more value conscious, they’re less likely to one-stop-shop, and more likely to visit multiple retailers to get the best value for money.

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Yards Are Hard

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Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments. Create a facilities “Center of Excellence.” The returns on these kinds of efforts will be swift and tangible.

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“Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste” – Key Insights from the Automotive Logistics

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Short-term visibility at the Purchase Order/ASN level is insufficient. Building strategic relationships, enhancing collaboration with logistics providers or 3PLs, and internalizing 3PL/4PL functions to gain more control over logistics operations are all strategies that contribute to supply chain resilience.

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2023: The Year of the Employee?

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The number of employees that were furloughed was enormous with many stores having to close their doors or at a minimum move to curbside only, reducing the need for fully-staffed stores. In fact, the buy online pickup in store (BOPIS) and delivery options have added to the frontline workers list of tasks to be completed.

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A Practical Guide for Paving the Road to the Promised Land

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Social media will continue to drive consumer opinions and influence buying options. Your Brick-and-Mortar stores will remain the execution focal point of all of your channels and the hub of the buying experience. Excellence in customer service for both your in-store and online customers will be the differentiator in this new world.

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Putting the “AI” in Availability: 5 Ways To Bridge the Supply-Demand Gap in Wholesale Distribution and Manufacturing

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In short, a world of pain — including increased cost-to-serve, missed sales, lost customers, inventory shortages, margin shrinkage, and limited to no inventory visibility across networks and nodes. It’s scalable, cost-effective and fit-for-purpose, and the benefits are nothing short of transformative. The result? Here’s why.