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Megatrends Shaping Supply Chain Innovation

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Let’s look at the three megatrends shaping supply chain innovation in 2022 and beyond – resilience, through technical capability and consistency; optimisation of the omnichannel experience; and sustainability with a focus on Scope 3 emissions. Optimise the omnichannel experience. Real-time data driven decision making is critical.

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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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Optimize Your Freight Spend Without Negotiation

Talking Logistics

Companies across all industries are dealing with rising transportation costs and a key question many CEOs, CFOs, and supply chain executives are asking is, “What can we do to better manage and control our freight spend in today’s market?” The second question we get is what strategies can we implement to lower our transportation costs.

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Understanding Supply Chain Management

SupplyPike

These activities can involve storage and transport of inventory or supplies, monitoring of day-to-day activities, the preparation behind these processes, and blending these different components throughout the supply chain. Five Key Metrics for Monitoring the Impact of Panic Buying on your Supply Chain. Your Supply Chain Simplified.

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Leveraging Big Data in Logistics Into Meaningful Business Analytics

Intelligent Audit

According to analysts at McKinsey , “Most of the data generated in a supply chain falls outside the scope of just one enterprise or entity,” a dynamic that makes it hard to know if you’re dealing with good or bad data or even the original source. Does the data come from a variety of different sources? Financial Data.

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Top 5 Trends to Know to Compete with Amazon’s Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

Companies expanded e-commerce and omnichannel solutions simultaneously as well, reports Steve Banker of Logistics Viewpoints. The IIoT empowers contingency planning by giving supply chain entities real-time data from an endless number of sources, which range from online browsing data to point-of-sale data. This is contingency planning.

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What are the Five Components of Retail Supply Chain Management?

Vinculum

This initial stage requires the development of metrics to handle the supply chain so that it is easy to control the costs and deliver quality products to the customers. (2.) Transportation and Production. Planning is the first stage of supply chain management.