Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2022

It includes free shipping of online purchases, free grocery deliveries to the home for orders of at least $35, prescription discounts and other benefits. XPO Logistics launched a Ship Net-Zero program, giving shippers the option to purchase carbon credits to offset emissions from shipments. Walmart+ costs $98 per year, or $12.95

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Over time, I’ve been fortunate to work in groups where both men and women were well represented, and I’ve had excellent leaders who championed my career by giving me the freedom to chart my own path. The good news is we’re catching up, making substantial contributions in the overall supply chain workforce.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” Kehat’s feedback is that “Getting management buy-in for the implementation of cost-to-serve process is easy, but the implementation is difficult.” Both improvement and performance define supply chain excellence. Why does it matter to you?

Inventory Reduction 150

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Freightos

JULY 1, 2015

Same goes for books, groceries, taxis, banking, canoe and even B2B purchases. These 200+ contracts will be in different formats, ranging from PDFs and Excels to simple emails. Early online selling started with smaller consumer goods. But today, you can buy a boat online. You can buy house-sized power generators.

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 20, 2017

As empowered consumers, we expect full inventories of the products we want all the time, easy shopping and buying online and having the precious purchase on our doorsteps the next day. As a longtime analyst in the consumer goods and retail industries; I have seen what technology has done to change the way we do business.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Cycle stock is the management of stock required to cycle through production runs and procurement buys effectively. More and more companies purchasing inventory technologies, but failing to give planners time to plan. Buying the technology and not having clear processes and accountability does not help.

Waste Reduction 150

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Supply Chain Insights

MAY 17, 2017

Over the past several years I have been involved with some rather sophisticated technologies around consumer goods and retail. If they ask you for your email address, they will know in a heartbeat everything you have looked at (on their corporate website for sure), purchased, or put into your shopping cart and did NOT purchase.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

With demand for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), supply chains are also facing rising issues of counterfeit goods, trade compliance, and even smuggling of illicit products. Working remotely has also brought about the rise of cyber-attacks that has impeded several firms.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

MetaExperts are talent operational excellence (OpEx) hands-on-deck, training, and get-it-done partners. Getting into buying consortiums to increase influence and minimize service disruptions. About MetaOps and MetaExperts. Attributes of sourcing strategies that focus effectiveness: High Adaptability. High Responsiveness.

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Synovos

AUGUST 9, 2023

RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 8 AUGUST 2023 – Costanza Campi, Senior Vice President of Global Procurement for RS Integrated Supply, has been selected to present at the upcoming World Procurement Excellence Summit in Cologne, Germany.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 11, 2017

Having been a vendor for most of my career in consumer goods, I can’t be more appreciative of the extremely hard work that went into these new solutions. The reference customers are unanimous in their praise for the integration capabilities as well as the focus on ensuring operational excellence during implementation.

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DynaSys

MARCH 5, 2019

For example, European consumers prefer to buy in their region (75%), then abroad (19%) or at the airport (6%). These statistics are similar for Asian consumers who represent the major consumer market with 62% buying luxury goods in Asia, 16% buying luxury goods at the airport, and 22% buying abroad.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. Purchases in the center store of the grocery store are in decline, and apparel tastes are shifting. By building demand management processes to focus on channel movement, companies can cut demand latency and model independent demand–customer purchases.

Supply and Demand 150

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crisp

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Settle, a pioneering cash flow management company, and Crisp, a leading retail data platform, are setting a new standard for operational excellence in the consumer goods industry. What unique problems do consumer goods companies face that Settle aims to solve?

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RFgen

MAY 13, 2024

From the leftover Ben & Jerry’s in your freezer to the travel-size Dove lotion abandoned somewhere at the bottom of your toiletry bag, the business responsible for these familiar household staples is the multinational consumer goods company, Unilever. Which farms are mills buying crops from?

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

High levels of fresh and fast-moving consumer goods are common in the food manufacturing industry and inventory levels of raw material, in-progress and finished goods need to be effectively managed to reduce the holding costs of the inventory. Here are some reasons why you need to upgrade to better food inventory software.

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Logility

MARCH 30, 2020

For the first time in history, shelves of stores across the globe that sell food, beverage and other fast-moving consumer goods (including toilet paper, hand sanitizer and cleaning products) are nearly empty. Looking back a few months, no one could have predicted the current state of the global supply chain.

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Provenance

JULY 31, 2020

We specialise in enabling public transparency of supply chain and impact information for consumer goods brands. We’re working towards a society where buying something doesn’t make you a consumer, it makes you a citizen. Have excellent written and verbal communication skills. About Provenance.

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crisp

MAY 21, 2025

Retail and consumer goods supply chain leaders can use AI to gain a similar competitive edge in the race to meet customer demand. Execute in-stock, on-shelf success The ultimate test of supply chain excellence is ensuring products are actually available for purchase when and where consumers seek them.

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QAD

MARCH 30, 2023

If you work in the automotive, aerospace and defense industries or, of course, the consumer goods industry, you’ve probably been working with RFID technology for years. This isn’t a task for an Excel spreadsheet. Be sure to do your research and assess the situation with ROI in mind.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Blue Yonder is shown as being able to provide WMS solutions across many industries, including Automotive, Food & Beverage, High Tech, Consumer Goods, Life Sciences, Logistics Service Providers, E-Commerce, and Retail Grocery, Hardlines and Softlines.

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QAD

OCTOBER 5, 2021

From integrated multi-currency, multi-GAAP and multi-entity financials to best practice purchasing, from shared services to real-time data and flexible data analytics, Effective Enterprise Management ensures that manufacturers operate from a trusted set of essential enterprise processes that meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The retailer’s plan was never normalized against inventory and as a result it did not reflect buying behavior. If you knew what the retailer was going to sell (POS) then the calculation as to what the retailer would buy was a simple mathematical calculation. The answer was simple. Slowly, my process thinking evolved.

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Precoro

JULY 1, 2025

Effective vendor collaboration isn’t built on iron-clad contract terms and purchase order s. It’s typically updated every three to six months and helps understand which areas the supplier excels in and which need improvement. The company is probably not purchasing enough to justify the effort.

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Kinaxis

MAY 18, 2016

You might think, “okay, our warehouse is good” without thinking about the end to end. Procurement might have hit their cost savings metrics, but if it meant purchasing more than needed, and that might hurt your warehouse inventories. Or do you think Supply Chain professionals should just go on being quietly excellent?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The tools for determining Cost To Serve include standard spreadsheet applications, such as MS Excel, and network design modeling software. Up to 7,000 SKUs were being purchased in a process replete with inefficiencies such as multiple handling, redundant stock levels, and duplicated order processing.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Our team was recognized for our unique configure-to-order process for our microprocessors as a finalist in the Supply Chain Council’s Operational Excellence award in 2011. The team reduced finished-goods inventory by 50% and reduced the assembly and test line production variances by 50% in 9 months. My tenure at AMD was amazing.

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Alloy

JANUARY 6, 2021

In this Q&A with Brian Babbitt , Head of Solutions Consulting at Alloy, we discuss options for consumer goods manufacturers evaluating supply chain management solutions. Both companies also provide excellent customer support. What are key similarities and differences between Alloy and RSi?

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crisp

APRIL 21, 2023

The certified B Corp makes organic, better-for-you packaged sauces and donates a meal to those in need with every purchase. The company was founded by Richa Gupta, who was inspired by the “buy one, give one” model of Tom’s Shoes. Good Food for Good was born with its own “buy one, feed one” model.

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 29, 2014

As rapid change takes place in online ordering and fulfillment for retail, consumer goods, distribution, and third-party logistics (3PLs), the needs for real estate space change too. The growth of actual online sales from online purchases between 2012 and 2017 will only grow from 7.7% You bet it can. of total retail sales.

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ShipBob

APRIL 13, 2021

Depending on your business goals, a “conversion” can be almost anything, but in most cases, for ecommerce businesses, it is when someone converts from being just a website visitor or email subscriber to becoming a customer by making a purchase. Costs of goods sold (COGS). Conversion rate = (Conversions ÷ Total visitors) X 100%.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

If merchandising is very good at the science of running their business, a demand planning group can be respected and managed well. On the other hand, if merchants make their money being outstanding at the art of understanding consumer buying behavior, they might actually prefer their “support organizations” to manage the analytics.

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Alloy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Channel Performance in Walmart Luminate gives you a true omni-channel view of sales, whether the purchase is in-store, delivered, shipped to store, picked up, or shipped directly to the customer. Alternatively, if you are currently analyzing your Retail Link data by pulling it manually and then analyzing in Excel or a BI tool, Alloy.ai

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Starboard now has over 1400 users across 70 customers representing Auto, Consumer Goods, Retail, Industrial Products, Consulting, and Real Estate. Starboard Founder and President , Steve Johanson will lead a newly formed Center of Excellence within Logility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

But, when my mom was buying a new vehicle, she didn’t decide to scrap the vehicle from 1993 and purchase one from 1995. But, we can’t begin our journey towards the future of procurement excellence in a ’93 Escort. Say I purchase a car. She chose the hybrid route. So… out with the old and in with the new! Let me explain….

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Dean has worked with over 100 manufacturers in strategic, financial and operational roles, across a variety of industries including, Food and Packaging Goods, Consumer Goods, Chemicals, Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial Goods and High Tech. And why these processes can increase profits by up to 5% of sales.

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Zipline Logistics

AUGUST 4, 2020

How Zipline Logistics Can Help You Excel. As the only Top 100 3PL to specialize in consumer goods, Zipline offers the same buying power and capabilities as a big-box brokerage but with niche expertise and personalized service only available from a boutique provider.

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