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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

These metrics can be used for making operational adjustments related to inventory levels as well as assortment and sourcing decisions. In Fashion, sourcing strategies can be revisited, and the ‘risk’ metrics can become a part of the decision criteria in addition to manufacturing and logistics costs.

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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

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Over 1/3 of manufacturers struggling with data. A recent Hexagon report found that although manufacturers are increasingly data-focused, many are facing challenges with decision-making. One of the toughest challenges we encountered was managing logistics as our business grew. The F&B industry added 1.4

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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. “After a brief stop, the vehicles cleared the area as the fog began to clear.

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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

As a result, a wide range of businesses, from restaurants, and retail chains, to manufacturers, have been redesigning their business services and operations and re-engineering their supply chains. The post Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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The Impact of Collaborative TMS on Supply Chains Bottom Line

Turvo

Worldwide third-party logistics (3PL) has emerged as a viable option for meeting global distribution demands. But global logistics is still a reactive industry. To tackle shipment-level concerns, retailers, manufacturers, and carriers are continually at odds with one another. Impact opportunity on the bottom line.