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The Top 15 Retail Trends for 2022

ToolsGroup

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Data source: eMarketer.

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10 Things to Leave Behind When Moving!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Not only are they heavy and challenging to transport, but they can also be expensive to dispose of properly. An old mattress can be challenging to move, and it may not be worth the effort to try and transport it to your new home. As a result, it often makes more sense to buy a new mattress when moving to a new home.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. The two most significant factors were a rise in time between the booking to gate in at the port, up 43%, and the ocean transit time, up 36%. The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7%

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. The two most significant factors were a rise in time between the booking to gate in at the port, up 43%, and the ocean transit time, up 36%. The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7%

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AI This. Not So Fast.

Supply Chain Shaman

I am also developing a framework for my new book. I define supply chain excellence as year-over-year performance better than the peer group on this balanced scorecard. 06/2020 Kinaxis buys Rubikloud for 60M$. Procurement and transportation operated as islands. Stay tuned. They did it. The need is there.

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. Order Policy. Definition of Outside-In Processes.

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Don’t Take a Holiday from Inventory Management

Talking Logistics

Especially since many retailers have already purchased and shipped their goods ahead of the looming tariff changes. Proactive collaboration with mills, tanneries or other raw material suppliers is a built-in insurance policy. This is never more necessary than when preparing for the holiday season.