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Digital Path to Purchase Decreases Retailers’ Reliance on Holiday Shopping

Enterra Insights

Amazon’s Prime Day in July, for example, has led to more retailers like Target, Walmart and Kohl’s offering steep discounts on toys, apparel and electronics during the summer, in a bid to stay competitive. More e-commerce orders mean a big increase in transportation requirements.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. I find three: organizational design, executive understanding of supply chain, and the lack of a clear definition of an optimization function for supply chain excellence. The reason? The problem?

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Why don’t you have a TMS (Transportation Management System) Solution yet?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Why have so few companies adopted a TMS (Transportation Management System) solution? We had a tremendous amount of spend leverage globally, a seasoned team, great supplier relationships, very strong processes, and an excellent Transportation Management System (TMS). Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Welcome Puff, The Magic Dragon, to Your Team

Supply Chain Shaman

Each survey that I do comes back with data as a major challenge. Older men buy less underwear than younger males and their packaging was not as attractive to the female shopper buying for the family. A second story is of an electronic distributor. Here, I postulate that the supply chain dragon is data. The problem?

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. How can you use electronic payment methods to get better terms? Customization?

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10 Ways IoT Can Improve Supply Chains

IQMS

The majority of enterprises are prioritizing their blockchain pilots that concentrate on supply chains improvements (53%) and the Internet of Things (51%) according to Deloitte’s latest blockchain survey. The study found that the electronics equipment company could save up to $6M a year or.6% 6% of annual sales.

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Why don’t you have a TMS (Transportation Management System) Solution yet?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Why have so few companies adopted a Transportation Management System (TMS) solution? We had a tremendous amount of spend leverage globally, a seasoned team, great supplier relationships, very strong processes, and an excellent Transportation Management System (TMS). Subscribe Here! Email Address.