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Inflation is Affecting Grocery Shopping and Holiday Meals

Enterra Insights

Emily Moquin ( @emilybmoquin ), a food and beverage analyst, reports, “Persistently high inflation in the grocery category has led to persistently high consumer concerns. In response to these concerns, Moquin reports that consumers have changed their purchasing behavior in several ways. Purchasing prepared foods.

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Championing Supply Chain Digitalization

Enterra Insights

We live in a digital age in which, according to Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, big data is an organization’s most valuable asset. Today, it’s not people but data that tops the asset value list for companies.”[1] Data and the Digital Supply Chain.

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Digital Transformation of the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Multinational enterprises deal with a dizzying array of paperwork involving procurement deals, purchase orders, shipping data, etc. ”[3] They go on to note, “A traditional ERP simply cannot keep pace with the rate of change and the need to innovate and optimize quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively. .”[3]

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Existing data and information might be incomplete and inaccurate, feedback from the team might be delayed. Predictive analytics will quicken demand response and involve product-use insights to improve accuracy against external factors affecting demand (e.g. Efficiency and cost management. Put first things first.

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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?

Logility

Logility’s corporate responsibility solution combines audit and self-assessment data in a way that is highly effective at identifying suppliers who are not engaged in ethical social practices. How can you ensure you are not purchasing from a supplier that had a positive audit but actually practices worker abuse?

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4 unstoppable forces that WILL change your end-to-end supply chain

Kinaxis

Order fulfillment channels are becoming more complex as the possible combinations for purchase and returns explode. Global purchasing power. Emerging economies, those classed as part of the E7 (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Turkey), are hitting the leaderboard of the top 10 countries with the most purchasing power.

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Trends 2021: Technology Part One, Deloitte

Enterra Insights

.” The key to supply chain transformation, they insist, is capturing, analyzing, and utilizing data. “By mining this data for operational insights,” they write, “[companies] can continuously optimize systems and processes throughout the organization. Managing Big Data Better. ” Trend 4.