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Crime is Adding to Supply Chain Woes

Enterra Insights

References to the wild west are being made more frequently as criminal activity increases supply chain woes. s shares tumbled after the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain posted a decline in gross profit margin for the fiscal third quarter, citing organized theft and increased promotions.”[2]

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. store operations by 9 percent over the past year, slashing hundreds of millions of dollars of goods from their balance sheets and suggesting space is opening up in their jammed supply chains.

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The Great Store Redo

Cathy Roberson

In four of its Minneapolis test stores, Best Buy reduced the shoppable square footage to 15,000 square feet to provide more space for fulfillment. Supply Chain Implications Smaller stores typically mean less inventory. Hence, investing and utilizing a good inventory management system will be critical.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 8-12, 2017)

Talking Logistics

It was a very busy week in the world of supply chain and logistics, so let’s go straight to the news that caught my attention: FLEXE Launches Nationwide Next-Day Delivery. Infor M3 Integrates to GT Nexus Supply Chain Network. Target to test next-day delivery service in Minneapolis (Reuters).

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

6 River Systems

Supply chain management is a multi-faceted process with many stakeholders and even more moving parts. New technology aims to make the supply chain more efficient, yet investing in the wrong technology further complicates productivity while hindering profitability. Here’s some research on this topic.