GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

On today’s episode we welcome Andrew Lynch, Co-Founder & President of Zipline Logistics, an award-winning logistics service provider that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods and food and beverage products. Capacity & Carrier Metrics Resources to Download. Download E-Book. DOWNLOAD WHITE PAPER.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights a published report indicating that PC maker Hewlett Packard is modifying supply sourcing akin to China Plus and nearshoring sourcing actions. That would include alternatives to China under the umbrella of either China Plus or de-risking sourcing changes. We pointed out that in 2022, more U.S.

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EC Sourcing Group

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. Applying sound sourcing principles will enable you to unlock value.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Despite supply chain costs increasing and available capacity almost a rarity, retailers are undertaking a variety of ways to make sure they receive their inventory in time for the ever-important holiday season. Ordering early Most retailers have noted that they’ve ordered inventories earlier than usual.

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EC Sourcing Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. Applying sound sourcing principles will enable you to unlock value.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Retail software is a range of technological solutions that can help retailers improve customer satisfaction, profitability, efficiency, and productivity by streamlining manual tasks. Retail software automates critical business processes in a way that traditional systems cannot. What is retail software?

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ToolsGroup

MAY 17, 2022

Image source: Cape Analytics. Image Source: Nola. With only three major domestic chlorine manufacturers actively producing tablets, even the best capacity planning process couldn’t help the remaining two feasibly account for the massive gap in production. Image Source: USA Today. Image source: CNBC. The result?

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 17, 2021

Part 2: Lessons from Comparing Disruptions In the previous post in this two-part series, The 7 Core Capacities of Supply Chain Resilience , we identified the core capacities that are the building blocks of supply chain resilience. Source: James B. In practice, a short loss of capacity?—?a Disruption comparison matrix?—?Source:

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

Last year, retailers started encouraging holiday shoppers to shop early. You might be thinking, “Well, but what about growing retail inventories? The retail inventory to sales ratios have trended up in the recent past, with these ratios standing at 1.18 Retailers are already cutting orders in anticipation of reduced demand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Many major challenges of 2021—capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortage—are rolling over into 2022 and, in addition, the environment and machine learning are becoming more important for logistics and supply chain professionals. This is clearly an opportunity and challenge for retailers and last mile logistics companies.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 6, 2022

As a result, communication gaps have become almost the norm, putting a company’s ability for capacity planning into question. Mismatched capacity during surges makes it near impossible to meet demand. These companies operate in silos, often basing estimates and capacity planning on incomplete data. Correcting Communication Gaps.

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crisp

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With Crisp, CPG brands can access timely, granular data from 40+ retailer and distributor partners directly in Snowflake – giving them actionable insights to project demand, grow sales, and streamline operations. With Crisp, brands can access ready-to-query daily sales and inventory data from 40+ retail sources directly within Snowflake.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 26, 2020

This global health crisis has uncovered vulnerabilities in our food supply chains, affecting the capacity of food retailers to ensure its continuity. Fortunately, there are solutions available that can help retailers cope with disruptions.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Increasing parcel shipping capacity is more important than ever, thanks to increased pressure brought on by a rise in e-commerce delivery and transportation disruptions. In an ever-changing market, the ability to maximize capacity in a competitive market remains critical to achieving future growth and success. Rethink Your Product Mix.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In the first half of the year, panic buying drove supply and demand imbalance across the supply chain and caused truckload capacity to tighten. The e-commerce surge tightened truckload, LTL , and small parcel capacity, delaying deliveries, and driving up rates. Home baking was another trend that tightened capacity.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

If you are buying widgets, there are many ways to make your purchase, from going to a retail location, ordering online or using a standard procurement software tool that allows you to order lots of widgets and receive them over a specified period of time. Here are the top five reasons you need a transportation sourcing solution: 1.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

10 Reasons the Retail Industry Should Invest in a Last-Mile Delivery Solution. Original Article: 10 Reasons the Retail Industry Should Invest in a Last-Mile Delivery Solution. Finding last-mile retail delivery solutions continues to be a priority for managers. WRITTEN BY CELINE CLAYTON / POSTED ON MAY 19, 2022.

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AIMMS

MARCH 8, 2016

It’s no mystery that some of the world’s largest retail chains are struggling to survive. In Europe, V&D , a major Dutch department store, and Brantano , a large footwear retailer operating in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK, have officially declared bankruptcy. Key trends shaping today’s retail supply chain.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2022

Milan, July 27 , 2022 – ToolsGroup , a global leader in AI-driven retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, is proud to announce it has been awarded Microsoft Italy’s Best Independent Software Vendor Partner Award for the second year in a row. Prestigious award presented by Microsoft at the Inspire event. About ToolsGroup.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Retail supply chains in particular face a horde of supply chain challenges such as: . While on-time delivery for retail supply chains is an excellent driver of trust and brand loyalty, these challenges can stand in the way of ensuring on-time delivery. Capacity buffers to ensure on-time delivery. Demand forecasting.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2022

The motivations and explanation are common to what has transpired among other high profile online retail platform provider announcements of late. Since that Amazon announcement, a number of aggressive actions in reducing headcount via attrition and cutting back on excess capacity has occurred.

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Freightos

APRIL 25, 2024

More Resources Home The Impact of Fast Fashion Giants On Air Cargo Eytan Buchman April 25, 2024 Navigating New Horizons: The Impact of Fast Fashion on Air Cargo Rates & Dynamics The intersection of fast fashion, globalized retail e-commerce, and air cargo logistics is coming to a head with Temu and Shein’s entrance to the US market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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ThroughPut

JULY 7, 2023

The Challenges of Handling Large Retail Product Lines Managing a large product portfolio of hundreds and thousands of SKUs is hard in itself given all the complexity. For a lot of retail businesses , product mix optimization on auto-pilot comes as a ready relief after using siloed data systems and manual Excel calculations for years.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 7, 2023

The dynamic sourcing capability automatically smooths inventory targets day after day and ensures target service levels are achieved regardless of supplier constraints. About ToolsGroup ToolsGroup’s innovative AI-powered solutions enable retailers, distributors, and manufacturers to navigate through supply chain uncertainty.

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Jaggaer

AUGUST 12, 2020

For the first three months after Covid-19 hit, virtually every sourcing project , in every sector , was put on hold while companies tried to assess the situation and how best to deal with the epidemic. Only a few, notably grocery stores, food chains, essential retail ers , and healthcare, were in a position to push forward.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The announced rate hike was justified by executives by a need to boost revenues amid an estimated 11 percent decline in daily package volumes and acknowledgement that the company now has more capacity than current transport demand. Bob Ferrari. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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o9 Solutions

AUGUST 12, 2021

In the meantime, customer preferences and shopping behavior keep changing, impacting the entire retail supply chain industry. A digital transformation of supply chain processes is key in maintaining margins and service amidst these changes so that retailers can quickly analyze, optimize, and evaluate complex decisions before taking action.

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 3, 2021

But, executing on that vision so that it comes into fruition requires careful inventory placement, timely replenishment, capacity and flow planning with continuous monitoring of issues, and taking action to mitigate out-of-stocks and resource breaches. Capacity and Flow planning reduce cost-to-serve.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 15, 2022

However, I’ve been hearing more and more stories about how the rapid over-expansion of many brands and retailers in 2021 has proven to result in all kinds of problems, specifically around additional inventory, excess capacity, and over-expansion of the workforce.

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AIMMS

MARCH 8, 2016

It’s no mystery that some of the world’s largest retail chains are struggling to survive. In Europe, V&D , a major Dutch department store, and Brantano , a large footwear retailer operating in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK, have officially declared bankruptcy. Key trends shaping today’s retail supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Furthermore, this is the case not just with retailers but also wholesalers and manufacturers. Source: Descartes Datamyne. Source: Descartes Datamyne. These effects may take some time to materialize in retail inventory statistics. Well, companies can try securing additional capacity as, even as charters as Costco did.

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Zipline Logistics

JULY 13, 2021

What was once believed to be a temporary disruption is leaving a lasting impact on the retail industry. Challenges brought on by COVID-related disruption are forcing shippers to adjust supply chain strategies to accommodate fervent demand, rising logistics costs, and scarcer trucking capacity. Consumer Demand Still Going Strong.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 27, 2021

Many businesses in the transportation and logistics industry use retail supply chain analytics to predict the future. The Perfect Order Rate Retail supply chain analytics helps pinpoint exact numbers. Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time Another critical feature in retail supply chain analytics lies in the cash-to-cash cycle time.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 27, 2021

Many businesses in the transportation and logistics industry use retail supply chain analytics to predict the future. Retail supply chain analytics helps pinpoint exact numbers. Another critical feature in retail supply chain analytics lies in the cash-to-cash cycle time. But their value isn’t limited to forecasting the future.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

As an example, a major retailer whose market presence is in the Americas realized that several of their shipments that originate in China pass through Russia to make their way to the west and are now subject to shipment backlogs. Some may have believed themselves to be immune at one point, but now their perspective is shifting.

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