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Surviving an Economic Downturn in the Retail Sector

Enterra Insights

Correspondent Melissa Repko reports that it might take some time for retailers to figure out how consumers are going to behave over the coming months. Plus, Americans’ spending spree during the earlier years of the pandemic, fueled by stimulus money, boredom and socked-away savings, have made for tough comparisons.”[2]

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

Logistics Viewpoints

The retail industry is rich with data. Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail. Retailers can apply cluster analysis techniques in different ways to find groups of customers, products, stores, or suppliers that behave similarly. There are different ways of doing store cluster analysis.

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COVID-19 Month-Over-Month Survey Comparison: Consumer Trends and Their Impact on Retail Supply Chains

BlueYonder

consumer behavior has been a barometer for larger trends affecting industries such as retail and manufacturing, as well as the overall economy. Even before the pandemic, retail segments including tech, apparel, grocery and home goods had seen significant shifts from brick-and-mortar to online. In the U.S.,

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The Unleashed Manufacturing Health Index: Signs of Recovery as 2023 Closes

Unleashed

New manufacturing data reveals the small to medium manufacturing sector remains in recovery mode, with global performance largely mapping to local economic conditions. New Zealand manufacturing, meanwhile, is at an historic inflection point, with stagnant performance in multiple sectors.

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Global Study Reveals 52% of Vital Digital Supply Chain Transformation Efforts Hamstrung by Skills and Labor Crunch

ToolsGroup

In comparison, respondents were less concerned about internal issues such as shorter product life cycles, risk of obsolescence, or more production options. Supply chain delays (25%), surging inflation (24%) and escalating fulfillment costs (19%) top the list of external concerns.

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Congratulating the Supply Chains to Admire Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

There are 31 winners: seven in retail, eleven in process industries and thirteen in discrete industries. Each year as I work with the team to compile the data, and sort through the winners, the growing strength in retail surprises me (despite the Amazon effect) and the slow decline in performance in manufacturing.

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

PWC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey reports that 83% of manufacturers say that supply chain technologies have not delivered the expected results. For this blog post, never mind the comparison. The trade-offs of manufacturing and supply constraints are not visible today. Let’s not quibble on the percentages.