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With ToolsGroup’s AI-Powered Planning, Legami Delivers Customer-Centric Service While Driving Business Growth

ToolsGroup

The Italian consumer goods company applies ToolsGroup’s probabilistic forecasting and inventory optimization across its expansive network to enhance customer experience and business value. This automated, AI-powered solution includes Demand Planning & Forecasting and Inventory Optimization.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Maybe try Boston next? Fabric, a warehouse automation/robotics solution provider and third-party operator of micro fulfillment centers, is reported by the Wall Street Journal to be cutting its workforce and shifting its business strategy as grocers and retailers shift their focus to automated fulfillment operations inside stores.

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Is the Retail Sector Poised for a Great Reset?

Enterra Insights

Journalists from the Wall Street Journal explain, “When millions of locked-down Americans went online during the Covid-19 pandemic, it looked like the possible start of a permanent shift in consumer behavior. We have to figure out our workforce management and our talent, and our pricing and our systems and our inventory management.

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Is the Retail Sector Poised for a Great Reset?

Enterra Insights

Journalists from the Wall Street Journal explain, “When millions of locked-down Americans went online during the Covid-19 pandemic, it looked like the possible start of a permanent shift in consumer behavior. We have to figure out our workforce management and our talent, and our pricing and our systems and our inventory management.

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Supply Chain Brain Webinar

The Logistics of Logistics

Longer lead times, complex handoffs between logistics providers, data flow between disparate systems…requires a new way of thinking for efficient inventory moves from origin to the final customer efficiently. 5) How can the gig economy and ride-share companies support delivery needs in the midst of ongoing workforce shortages.

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Global Supply Chains — A Source of Strength

Enterra Insights

The varied goods in the containers illustrate the far-flung nature of modern supply chains and show how transportation problems on one side of the world can affect the production of goods and store inventories thousands of miles away.”[5]

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Another Online Retailer Elects to Scale Back Operations

Supply Chain Matters

Last week, Boston based home goods and furniture online platform provider Wayfair announced it will shed nearly 5 percent of its global workforce and upwards of 10 percent of this provider’s corporate level staffing, amounting to upwards of 900 people. This has resulted in increased initiatives to now scale-back operations and trim staffing.