ToolsGroup

APRIL 3, 2023

Sahil Gupta , Chief Product Officer at ToolsGroup, shares the most important insights and takeaways from this year’s ShopTalk conference. After four days of retail insights focused on the trends, business models, and technologies that are shaping the future of retail, ShopTalk 2023 has closed a successful and illuminating conference.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2022

I was fortunate enough to spend the beginning of this week at Manhattan Associates’ Momentum user conference. It was great to be back in person at a conference, seeing people face to face. Although virtual conferences do offer convenience, they lack a personal touch and the ability to network with others in person.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Interestingly, in Q3 2023, 38% of manufacturers, distributors and retailers missed their target for revenue guidance for the quarter. The result was restatement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. As I squeezed into the middle seat of a crowded conference room, I got the stare. When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The result?

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 5, 2019

Nearly every week it seems another brick-and-mortar retailer declares bankruptcy and closes stores. The press has dubbed this the Retail Apocalypse and some pundits are openly wondering whether we are seeing the death of brick-and-mortar retail. He writes, “High street retailing is far from down and out.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2021

Furthermore, COVID-19 exacerbated the existing shift from retail store purchases to e-commerce transactions, with a 32 percent increase in 2020 US e-commerce sales, according to the US Census Bureau. Much of this e-commerce business may revert back to retail stores, but much of it is likely to remain e-commerce as well.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Until now, businesses have been absorbing the rising costs of supply chain pressures, yet this is unsustainable. Supermarkets, retailers and importers are beginning to lift prices in response to the crises, essentially passing the costs onto their customers. Just take a look at what’s been happening over the last 3-4 months.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Review of SQM Metrics and Issues Across 5 Core Industries. #1: Trend Metrics Collected per Site. Medical Devices.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 30, 2023

Analysts at NielsenIQ observe, “Positive consumer sentiment toward sustainability has been growing for more than a decade, but the impact of purchasing preferences has yet to inspire a green revolution within the retail industry. Two rapidly emerging drivers of change — governance and cost — are about to change all that.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The sixth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in August 2021 once again stressed the importance and urgency of decarbonising all sectors of the economy. Most respondents report monitoring their fuel consumption, which is a critical first step towards reducing it.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 23, 2024

Last week in conjunction with the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual conference, AWS Supply Chain took the opportunity to announce the general availability of three of these modules. The module supports manual and EDI centric collaboration on purchase orders while helping to identify supplier risks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

These teams are also more advanced in the use of planning and more advanced analytics concepts. Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. Wall Street Journal Headline on Retailers Using Containers to Store Excess Inventories. My take away? Is this a conscious and deliberate decision?

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Talking Logistics

MAY 27, 2015

That’s how JDA Software’s CEO, Baljit Dail, summarized the feedback he was getting from customers and partners at FOCUS 2015 , the company’s user conference held last month in Orlando, FL, which had more than 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. “It feels like a new JDA.”. The value of IT is in how you use it.

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AB&R

MARCH 15, 2022

Two decades ago, the retailer required that suppliers add tags to all goods supplied to stores throughout its chain. Many viewed this as a positive sign for the future, predicting other retailers would follow the example and issue tagging mandates of their own.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. Almost two decades of reporting. They are not active on conference circuits. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.) As I listen, I struggle.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM. 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ). Cost of quality. The definition of this metric is similar to the way it sounds.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

The piece, “CPG/Retail E-Marketplaces: The Emperor’s New Clothes?” In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. was controversial.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 11, 2021

Long before the pandemic forced shoppers online, the trend was clear: Consumers were increasingly taking the digital path to purchase. In 2020, global e-commerce sales growth jumped three years in the first three months of stay-at-home mandates, with a share of overall retail matching 2023 predictions. ”[2]. ”[5].

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was certainly another strange year, but the in-person conferences I usually look forward to were a mixed bag this year. I attended my first in-person conferences and attended a number of virtual ones as well. The retailer also beat expectations for revenue, posting net sales of $2.53 billion for the quarter, up 14.5

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Veridian Solutions

APRIL 1, 2019

Omnichannel retail is the new “Gold Standard” for the industry. Consumer spending patterns show an increase in e-commerce purchases, but the peak holiday shopping season of 2018 suggests that retailers must not undervalue brick-and-mortar capabilities. Why Have Retailers Forgone Warehouse Automation?

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BlueYonder

MAY 24, 2017

As always, the Category Management Association (CMA) delivered a great and informative experience at its annual conference last week. This year’s conference focused on the importance of consumer data and insight, and how companies can bridge the traditional with digital to create new paths to success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The conference is always a lot of fun. At the conference I encouraged the attendees to network with each other, to build a guiding coalition, to redesign supply chain processes for the Supply Chain of 2025. As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. There is tension.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Initially these protocols focused on the sources of GHG emissions that were the easiest to track: Scope 1 direct emissions from company facilities and vehicles; and Scope 2 indirect emissions from the electricity or other energy a company purchases for use in its operations.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Journalists Sarah Nassauer ( @SarahNassauer ) and Jennifer Maloney ( @maloneyfiles ) report, “Nearly six months into the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., big-box retailers are emerging as business winners while competitors — including some apparel sellers and small businesses — struggle.”[1]

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

We have certainly seen more focus on women in supply chain over the last few years, and nearly every conference that I attend has tracks dedicated to women in supply chain. According to a recent report, the company canceled, closed, or delayed 99 fulfillment facilities, impacting nearly 32.3 And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 19, 2017

At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, there was a lot of talk about the latter. As I mentioned in an earlier blog about the Gartner conference , customers are demanding you deliver an experience, not just a product. Global purchasing power. What’s changing is how they want to engage and interact with it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

At this conference, we are excited to share three detailed analyses of corporate performance over the last decade: Performance on the Supply Chain Effective Frontier. Which supply chain metrics correlate to market capitalization by Morningstar sector? E-commerce is a more profitable form of retailing. Supply Chain Resiliency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 22, 2013

Words like big data, omni-channel fulfillment, smarter commerce, mobility and customer-centric retail filled the room. I believe in each of these concepts, and would like to see progression in the execution of the delivery of value in the retail value network. The air was thick. However, I think that it is time to take a time-out.

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Kinaxis

JULY 19, 2017

Phillips, SVP of Customer Supply Chain & Global Go-To-Market for PepsiCo shared during his keynote presentation at the Gartner Executive Supply Chain Conference, this digital revolution presents enormous challenges and opportunities across the end-to-end consumer value chain. IoT at retail. Retail is upping its game too.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 15, 2022

Many retailers are feeling inventory pains despite assuring analysts that they're quite pleased with their inventory levels. Mind you, some retailers may indeed be pleased with their inventory levels, but others may be trying to figure out where to store the excess inventory since so many warehouses are beyond full.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Editor's Note: As of late you may have noticed we have written a lot about procurement and the future of procurement. A large part of procurement is finalizing the contract and then the follow through of the determined deliverables in that agreement. All KPIS have metrics to measure.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 26, 2019

”[1] In simpler times, shoppers would return items to the stores in which they were purchased — often exchanging them for other items (a win-win for both the consumer and the retailer). These standards have been adopted en masse by retailers. retailers $351 billion in lost sales. Some 61% of U.S. ”[3].

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 19, 2018

This week: The death of retail jobs has been greatly exaggerated; new IoT sensors are making in-store fulfillment more efficient; U.S. This week: The death of retail jobs has been greatly exaggerated; new IoT sensors are making in-store fulfillment more efficient; U.S. Retail Still Supports 1 in 4 Jobs in the U.S.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 1, 2022

This collaboration helps carriers plan capacity needs, temporary seasonal labor requirements, third-party transportation purchases, and more down to the zip code level. As a result, many retailers are sitting on excess inventory. New startups and technology solutions have emerged for retailers and other shippers to diversify further.

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Kinaxis

JULY 7, 2017

Gartner Research Director Andrew Downard addressed the issue during his presentation at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference by outlining three macro trends affecting supply chain planning , chief among them IoT. Digital business is about ideas and models that blend the digital and physical worlds. Algorithmic planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2023

Steve Lewis, the president of GXO Direct, the shared services division of GXO Logistics, spoke at Blue Yonder’s ICON user conference. In Southern California, for example, they have a 670,000 square foot warehouse that serves eight different fast-growing ecommerce retailers. GXO is the world’s largest contract warehousing provider.

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