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Report from Food Marketing Institute Highlights CPG Logistics Challenges

Zipline Logistics

Everything from food and beverage products to home improvement items saw a significant consumption bump as buyers, sidelined by pandemic restrictions, diverted their purchasing habits from experiences to consumer goods. Since the first quarter of 2020, CPG logistics costs have risen by 37% to an average of $1.71 cost per case.

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Let the Design Begin…

Supply Chain Shaman

They came to Boston to tell us the story of Llamasoft. With the purchase of i2 by JDA, and Logictools by IBM, manufacturing companies serious about network design started looking for a company, with a well-established community, that was more serious about network design. There are seven reasons: Customer Service.

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Customer-Centricity in the Grocery Business

Enterra Insights

Food and drink choices are matters of personal preferences and grocers must be attuned to those preferences if they are going to serve their customers well. It’s a strategy that’s based on putting your customer first, and at the core of your business.”[2] Focus on customer wants and needs.

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Digital Transformation Helps with Corporate Alignment

Enterra Insights

There is no consolidated system for accessing all the information related to business operations, which can lead to erroneous reporting and missed opportunities.” For example, manufacturing may be tasked to fill all orders which requires having inventory on-hand in distribution centers. ” Fostering enterprise alignment.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. Sorry to break the news.

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Supply Chain Movement 20 – Trends & Consulting

Supply Chain Movement

Following on from its other two highly popular subway maps of supply chain software vendors and logistics service providers, the quarterly magazine Supply Chain Movement has now published the third edition of the Consulting Subway Map Europe showing the European supply chain consultancy sector. 26 | Global Trade Map. 26 | Global Trade Map.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

Vendor Managed Inventory processes–once hailed as the panacea of demand sensing–largely operate in isolation within sales organizations (of the thirty-three organizations that we interviewed last year, no market leader has connected these demand signals). It was a cold, crisp winter in Boston.