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RLA Inaugural Startup Pitch Contest

Cathy Roberson

The biggest retail challenges from the NRF and Appriss survey include the following: Self-service returns Damaged returns or policy abuse Re-processing goods at a warehouse on digital returns Indeed, a lot of work still needs to be done in reverse logistics. Tompkins Robotics – Expanded its reverse logistics capabilities in 2018.

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Top Take Aways from Oracle CloudWorld

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week in Las Vegas, Oracle had its first in person CloudWorld in three years. The end-to-end process includes order management, demand and supply planning, inventory planning, transportation management, and other processes and applications as well. The demo focused on manufacturing execution. This demo’d beautifully.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price.

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

With peak shipping season just around the corner, the logistics industry is looking forward to a smoother supply chain than previous years have provided. However, transportation management experts caution logistics providers not to get too excited. Experts Weigh-In on Peak Season 2022. Despite High-Profile Retail Cancellations, U.S.

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Together, Blue Yonder and Microsoft Are Redefining Supply Chain Digitalization 

BlueYonder

Blue Yonder’s Luminate(R) Cognitive Platform — built exclusively on Microsoft Azure — is the industry’s first intelligence-enriched, integrated technology platform that spans supply chain, retail planning, logistics, and delivery in one end-to-end solution.

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Amazon AWS Supply Chain Announces Four Added Capabilities

Supply Chain Matters

automatically combine and analyze data across multiple supply chain systems so businesses can observe their operations in real-time, find trends more quickly, and generate more accurate demand forecasts that ensure adequate inventory to meet customer expectations.” The application was described as providing the ability to: “.automatically

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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: A story from the front lines at Ken?s Foods

Elementum

When their salads and dressings became more famous than their steaks, they transitioned into a food manufacturer that has grown to a $1B+ business. Deploying Elementum was such a success that they resolved over 200 logistics related incidents in the first month alone at a rate 8–10x faster than before.

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