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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Shipping items back and forth creates needless greenhouse gas emissions, and only 54% of all packaging gets recycled.

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What is the Warehouse Role in Fulfilment?

Supply Chain Game Changer

A warehouse provides a secure and safe place to store goods in an organised way along with the warehouse role in fulfilment. In traditional retail operations, goods are eventually shipped to a bricks and mortar store. This is how they fit together: · Shipping inventory : goods are shipped to the warehouse.

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Agriculture in the City

Enterra Insights

”[2] To be fair, the USDA does offer a downloadable “ Urban Farm Business Plan Handbook ” and an “ Urban Agriculture ToolKit “ Why urban agriculture? Each container — the kind commonly seen on trains, trucks or ships — costs $85,000, not including shipping. ” Concluding thoughts.