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

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What it means for shopper behavior In times of uncertainty, rising prices and falling consumer confidence, we should expect a lot to change when consumers go shopping. Finally, shoppers may make impulse purchases less frequently, use more coupons and purchase in bulk more often in their search for great value.

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Yards Are Hard

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For various reasons, many drivers show up unexpectedly and at the same time. Case-in-point: my company FourKites will collaborate with 16 other supply chain industry leaders — including BlueYonder, e2open, Oracle, Uber Freight, and JB Hunt, to name a few — as part of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC).

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How Automotive Companies Are Transforming Their Supply Chains, Part 2

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Salim: Our automotive customers are increasingly looking at how to counter inflation but at the same time how to enable supply chain resiliency. The visibility will include not just the short-term purchase order or ASN-level visibility, but also the tactical kind of forecast collaboration with the suppliers.

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Improving Livelihood during Crisis with Retail Forecasts

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During this time of crisis, we should all be as diligent as possible with handwashing to prevent the spread the COVID-19 coronavirus. People are buying more products than normally forecasted and using them. Pantry Loading / Panic Buying: As consumers are faced with extended stays at home, we are seeing a pull-forward of demand.

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Maximizing Your Investments in Automated Execution

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The team involved in the transformation includes Johnny Ivanyi, Global Head of Distribution Excellence at Bayer Crop Science and Vivek Chhaochharia, Digital Supply Chain Leader at EY US. When we look at digital transformations across industries, less than 30% of them succeed — and only 16% deliver lasting benefits over time,” he says.

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Top 3 Recent Automotive Logistics Trends, Part 2

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It’s not just the short-term visibility that is needed, but also purchase order Advance Shipping Notice (ASN)-level visibility, longer-term forecast collaboration with suppliers, as well as collaborative forecast and capacity collaboration with customers, peers and suppliers. We mentioned disruptions and the added complexities.

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Calibration and Sharpness: The Two Independent Aspects of Forecast Quality

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We want forecasts to be “good,” “accurate,” and “precise.” But what do we mean by that? Let’s sharpen our thoughts to better articulate and visualize what we want from a forecast. Forecast Calibration For simplicity, let’s start with binary classification: The forecasted outcome can only take two values, “true or false,” “0 or 1,” or similar.