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Want to Cut the Cost of Fast Fulfillment? It All Starts with Inventory Placement

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The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs. Unemployment is at 3.5%

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Old is the New New: How to Take Control of Retail Fundamentals Ahead of Peak Season

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Heading into the 2022 peak season, everything old is new again. In an ideal world, no retailer would wind up with excess inventory because they would have the right insights to understand where and when their product most needs to be fulfilled. Take Back Control With Tech-Enabled, End-to-End Supply Chain Management.

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

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Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. 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.

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Walmart Steps Up Ecommerce Investment With Cross-Border Commerce and NFT Projects

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Ecommerce in February 2022. The team also will help Indian sellers meet standards for creating new international product lines and enhance their capabilities in packaging, marketing and supply chain management. The platform includes tools to help streamline operations and manage promotions and feedback.

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A 5-Point Action Plan to Build an Environmentally Friendly Supply Chain for Your Business in 2022

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Reducing carbon emissions by remapping the sourcing mix closer to where the demand lies increases flexibility in the business and minimizes the risk of supply chain disruptions. Creating a unified customer experience across multiple sales channels (B2B and B2C) ensures greater visibility and increases sales opportunities.

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

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“While we’ve returned to some sense of normalcy, the VUCA [volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous] proposition has become a reality,” said Dr. Thomas Goldsby, Professor and Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee. We’re now battle-tested.” To provide a 99.5%

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Is Uber the Next UPS?

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The continued digitization of the global supply chain has proven lucrative for the solution provider, and the current capacity constraints have only made efficiency more important in supply chain management across every industry.