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

Retail TouchPoints

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. This is both more complex and more top-of-mind due to ESG [environmental, social and governance]; no one likes to ship air.”

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

Retail TouchPoints

“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.”

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India’s DTC boom: Fuelled by technology and Millennials

Inside Retail

Estimates suggest that India is now home to over 800 DTC companies, with the ecosystem’s market value reaching about US$12 billion in 2022. Technological innovations have streamlined supply-chain management and warehouse operations. What lies ahead?

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

Retail TouchPoints

Some of the retailer’s plans include redesigning back rooms to accommodate pickup, delivery and ship- from-store orders; adjusting staging operations for orders to drop in three-hour increments to maximize space; and sending overflow delivery orders to the crowdsourced Spark Driver network.

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Amazon Adding Supply Chain Management Service for Sellers

Independent Retailer

As companies try to get tighter control over the flow of goods from factories to consumers, Amazon recently launched a supply-chain management service to its web services business. . Continued Supply Chain Disturbances. Still, Amazon, which ships 1.6 10 GB of data storage.

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Cross-Channel Home Décor Retailing: 5 Take Away Lessons from The Game Changers

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

While brick and mortar stores still play a strategic role in this market vertical, online shopping has skyrocketed, and with $294 billion expected in online home furnishing sales by 2022, retail store owners can no longer afford to miss out on the opportunity to ramp up their cross-channel game plans.

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Sustainable Supply Chains in 2022 (and Beyond)

Retalon

For example, global supply chains have long been: Overproducing goods in foreign factories with lax labor laws Monopolizing finite raw materials in Third World countries Relying on trade agreements to keep international shipping cheap Using just-in-time inventory practices, taking the resilience of supply chains for granted.