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5 Ways Small Businesses Can Manage Supply Chain Issues

Wiser

As a small business owner, managing supply chain issues is nothing new. Because smaller retailers cannot always order in bulk or far in advance like many larger retailers do, any supply chain disruptions are often felt faster and stronger by small businesses.

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How to Build a Modern Supply Chain That’s Built to Last

Retail TouchPoints

To keep up with rising demand, you need to set aside outdated supply management tactics and adopt longer-term solutions that help you get ahead of potential problems instead of reacting to them after it’s too late. Traditional Supply Chains Aren’t Built for Disruptions. Develop concurrency across your supply chain.

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Inside Walmart’s Expanding Last Mile Strategy: Employee Empowerment, Automation and Sustainability

Retail TouchPoints

comparable sales growth and growing market share in grocery during Q4 2021, and much of this success can be attributed to its robust last mile and fulfillment strategy. The program also supports degrees in business, technology, supply chain management and other fields. The retailer reported 5.6%

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The challenge of operational visibility

Inside Retail

Data and analytics provide a solution, they shed a light on hidden inefficiencies and arm logistics teams with insights to improve supply chain operations. These challenges, combined with 2020’s volatility, have influenced our predictions for 2021 and beyond. 2021 Australian logistics predictions. Confidence.

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How Shoemaker Viscata is Achieving Social and Business Goals by Reducing Returns

Retail TouchPoints

It’s been another year of record-breaking ecommerce sales combined with unprecedented snarls across shipping and inventory ecosystems, so it should come as no surprise that return rates for 2021 are expected to have gone through the roof.

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Amazon Adding Supply Chain Management Service for Sellers

Independent Retailer

This new supply chain application will help businesses better manage their inventory and coordinate their networks of manufacturers, suppliers, distribution facilities, and transportation providers. Now available for preview, it offers a real-time visual map of a company’s entire supply chain network.

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How the Intelligent Supply Chain Broke and AI Is Fixing It

Nvidia

The business of organizing resources to supply a product or service to its final user feels like it’s never been more challenged by so many variables. Products that do get manufactured sit on cargo ships or in warehouses due to shortages of containers and workers and truck drivers that help deliver them to their final destinations.