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Inventory and Inflation

Enterra Insights

The irony of excess inventory. Reporters from Bloomberg explain, “A nationwide inventory glut has led to unexpected bargains for U.S. ”[6] According Stokel-Walker, Bloomberg reports, “The biggest retailers in the United States have nearly $45 billion in excess stock.” ” Optimizing inventory.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Now operating in its fifth station, Flytrex’s three-minute delivery service will be available to approximately 140,000 customers across the United States. The CNBC article states, “ As delivery times and consumer demand rose this year, retailers responded by ordering inventory earlier than usual.

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OMG: Does Omicron Mean the Supply Chain Will Suffer from Long-Haul Covid?

Enterra Insights

”[4] The editorial team at the Wall Street Journal adds, “Omicron’s mutations appear to make it more transmissible and may allow it to evade some of the vaccine immune response. ” What the Wall Street Journal team doesn’t want to see is more lockdowns. Going Forward. The news isn’t all bad.

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7 Best Supply Chain Books of All Time

Supply Chain Opz

The content is good then people refer to it often (number of citations are also used to measure the importance of journal articles aka Impact Factor). These universities produce outstanding SC research and some of them are from the top supply chain management course and program in the United States. Interfaces, 38(6), 469-484.

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Consumer Credit, Generation Z, and the Consumer Packaged Goods Sector

Enterra Insights

During this period of changing consumer behavior, retailers experienced an inventory mismatch and inflation reared its ugly head. What Is Going On in Seven Charts ,” The Wall Street Journal, 16 August 2023. [4] Fortunately, the deep recession that many economists predicted didn’t emerge. 6] Colomer, op.

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Amazon’s Fulfillment Network Realignment Implications

Supply Chain Matters

We believe that these inventory management, customer and last-mile fulfillment strategies will have industry wide implications in terms of competitive stakes and cost-to-serve. Across the United States , Amazon elected to change its former predominant west to east coast hub based inventory and fulfilment distribution network.

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Toyota and USPS See Opportunities for Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management

Talking Logistics

It was back in January 2015, after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about bitcoin, that my eyes were opened to the potential for blockchain technology to transform supply chain management. As I wrote at the time in Bitcoin: A New Supply Chain Operating System?