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Retail Logistics relies on Omnimodal TMS for Omnichannel Customer Service

MercuryGate

How do shippers and LSPs focus on logistics cost management, improve supply chain resilience, and create a truly orchestrated, transparent value chain that enables real-time reactions to avoid supply chain disruption? The answer lies in your transportation management system.

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Minimizing Supply Chain Disruption Through Analytics: A Brief Guide

GlobalTranz

Using analytics in the supply chain has the most potential to dramatically reduce costs of supply chain management, as well as minimizing supply chain disruption. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. GET YOUR COPY HERE.

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Omnichannel Operations After the Pandemic

Enterra Insights

The staff at Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) writes, “Just five short months ago, the consumer goods industry was focused on building a supply chain to support the omnichannel era, focusing on four key areas: demand planning, fulfillment, manufacturing, and last-mile delivery. ”[5] There is a twist, however.

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Fulfillment Planning in an Omnichannel World

o9 Solutions

There are three key factors driving this change including: dramatically changing customer preferences, a major shift towards omnichannel purchases, and an increasing need for retailers to respond quicker to shifting preferences and buying behaviors with more efficient sourcing, transportation and fulfillment. .

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Three Key Inventory Strategies for an Omnichannel World

Supply Chain Brain

Many merchants are struggling to balance physical and digital inventory under a cloud of supply chain disruptions.

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2022 State of the Third-Party Logistics Industry Report

Supply Chain Brain

From combatting supply chain disruptions and creating new omnichannel fulfillment strategies to benefitting from the evolution of 3PLs, 4PLs, and cutting-edge technology, 2022 could be one of the most important years ever for businesses looking to play a pivotal role in how consumers receive goods.

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Retailers Embrace Gig Economy Fulfillment

Logistics Viewpoints

Combined with omnichannel offerings like buy online pick up in store (BOPIS) and curbside pickup, two-hour and same-day delivery round out a suite of order fulfillment services even Amazon cannot match. So do many other brands, including Publix, Costco, Petco, GNC, and Bed Bath & Beyond.