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How Shoppers and Retailers Can Reduce Waste This Thanksgiving

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Grocery retailers always risk losing precious inventory, but never is it more critical to receive the right foods at the right time than during Thanksgiving week. Each November, 200 million pounds of turkey meat are thrown away. But there are consequences. How can retailers avoid waste this year?

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Waste Not, Want Not: Thanksgiving and the Food Waste Conundrum

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Grocery retailers always risk losing precious inventory, but never is it more critical to receive the right foods at the right time than during Thanksgiving week. This Thanksgiving 200 million pounds of turkey meat will be thrown away. How can retailers avert waste this year?

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What is Inventory Management?

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What is Inventory Management? Inventory management, in a nutshell, describes your efforts to manage, assess and report on the flow of your stock of goods. You might be using pencil-and-paper, spreadsheets or sophisticated inventory management software to do this. Two Essential Features of Inventory Management Today.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. Foreseeing the pricing factor on the demand side is vital for organisations to address pricing policies. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Amazon’s supply chain heavily depends on the outsourcing of its inventory management.

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Holiday Shoppers and Retailers Face Rise in of Online Fraud

Enterra Insights

Last year the staff at Payments Next reported, “When it comes to online fraud, US Thanksgiving was a turkey for online sellers as online fraud jumped 29% compared to 2018 according to research from fraud prevention firm iovation. Unfortunately, increased online fraudulent holiday transactions are not a new phenomenon.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

That’s a big ask, despite reports that four-way grain export talks between Turkey, the United Nations, Ukraine, and Russia finally appear to have reached a breakthrough. If the war in Ukraine encourages companies to stockpile inventory, it is only the latest of several factors driving divergence from the once-dominant lean supply chain model.

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

As the global environment is shifting based on political debates, EU/British negotiations, tariffs driven by the Trump administration, as well as the sudden shifts in country-level policies, supply chain executives and planners are working to plan for future uncertainties. These are the hardest to affect at a trade policy level.

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