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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

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Recessionary environments cause disruptions in the manufacturing industry around the globe, leading to long lead times, shortages, rising prices, and complications in transportation lines. This means they are more likely to focus on value and affordability and change their priorities and brand preferences when making purchases.

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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

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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. Well, we also know that many legacy systems will not be able to support all these changes quickly and cost-effectively.

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2023 holiday report: data-driven strategies to make the buyer’s nice list

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Inflation and economic uncertainty loom large , directly influencing consumer purchasing behavior. Consumers are undoubtedly becoming more cost-conscious , but how can businesses leverage this shift to their advantage? And how can brands effectively prepare for the year’s most crucial shopping season?

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Technology – Shopify and Panasonic

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Online commerce platform provider Shopify , often compared to Amazon in the ability to support small and mid-sized businesses create and maintain an online shipping presence, announced thi9s week its intent to acquire end-to-end online logistics San Francisco based fulfillment provider Deliverr for a reported $2.1

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The Impact of Collaborative TMS on Supply Chains Bottom Line

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It is a new shipper-carrier collaboration approach to enhance supply chain visibility, reducing transit times, and inventory-carrying costs for retailers and suppliers while improving carrier asset utilization levels. . To tackle shipment-level concerns, retailers, manufacturers, and carriers are continually at odds with one another.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 8 – 14)

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“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. Previously, customers could drop off non-defective or undamaged items at UPS Stores without any cost.

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As Inventories and Capacity Expansion Grew Too Quickly in 2022, Customers are Forcing Suppliers to Bear the Brunt of Optimistic Forecasts

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In today’s Wall Street Journal , I was interviewed regarding a case that was just filed against Amazon by a large robotics , claiming that the e-commerce giant backed away from promises made early in the Covid-19 pandemic to support the supplier with millions of dollars in new purchases.