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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. Efficient inventory turnover is crucial in the fast-paced high-tech industry. 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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So, the parking spots are getting more and more occupied with drop trailers, meaning lot capacity shrinks while finding the trailer with the highest-priority inventory becomes even harder. Create a facilities “Center of Excellence.” Problem number three: appointment scheduling is a mess. Yes, yards are hard.

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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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Beyond the Storefront: A Glimpse Into the Next Wave of Retail’s Tech-Powered Transformation

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Digitally Transforming Personalization, Inventory, and Payments Across the Retail environment How Nordstrom Hyper-Personalized Digital Commerce In the realm of hyper-personalized digital commerce, Nordstrom stands out not only for its sophisticated approach but also for how it aligns seamlessly with the four pillars of retail transformation.

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How Automotive Companies Are Transforming Their Supply Chains, Part 2

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The following are the insights gained from my discussion with Salim Shaikh , who leads Blue Yonder’s Automotive Industry Strategy, during a recent Blue Yonder Live and webinars that we prepared for jointly. First is enabling resiliency in the short term by eliminating the network.