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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. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning.

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

Logistics Viewpoints

ABC Analysis for Inventory Planning : Clustering products that behave similarly highlights issues, challenges, and opportunities for serving customers better. Another way is to cluster stores by looking at a specific category’s inventory productivity or sales performance. These metrics can also be used in inventory planning decisions.

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Supply Chain Disruptions Directly Attributed to a Portion of US Inflation

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters posting, we highlight a published analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco quantifying the effects of supply chain disruptions have had on the existing U.S. This analysis concludes that supply driven factors such as manufacturing or logistics disruptions are contributing 2.5

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The Backorder, March 27 2024

Unleashed

One of the toughest challenges we encountered was managing logistics as our business grew. Additionally, sustainability and ethical sourcing will become even more critical in the coming years.” We specialize in creating candles with scents inspired by books and literature – a niche we proudly pioneered.”

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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

This means we need more agile, flexible, and scalable planning platforms to process and consolidate new data sources, drive insights using advanced analytics such as AI/ML to drive autonomous decisions, and expand collaboration within and outside our organizations. We need planning platforms to keep up with all the changes.

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Top Digital Supply Chain Cities in the U.S.

Material Handling & Logistics

number of flights, road congestion, distance to ocean ports); and in the presence of top 100 logistics IT providers. number of flights, road congestion, distance to ocean ports); and in the presence of top 100 logistics IT providers. San Francisco Bay area. San Francisco Bay area. New York City. Media Type.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

“Around 0600 Pacific Time Tuesday morning, multiple Waymo vehicles in San Francisco encountered very dense fog and determined they should pull over temporarily,” a company spokesperson said. And now on to this week’s logistics news. to smaller logistics operators scrambled to fill jobs at fulfillment centers.