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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. They are more likely to shop for discounts and sales and may delay purchases of some items.

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

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ABC analysis creates product segments by grouping products with similar sales volume or purchase frequency to enable category managers to focus on what matters most. These metrics can be used for making operational adjustments related to inventory levels as well as assortment and sourcing decisions. Asena holds B.S.

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The Backorder, March 27 2024

Unleashed

Over 1/3 of manufacturers struggling with data. A recent Hexagon report found that although manufacturers are increasingly data-focused, many are facing challenges with decision-making. Additionally, sustainability and ethical sourcing will become even more critical in the coming years.” The F&B industry added 1.4

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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

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As a result, a wide range of businesses, from restaurants, and retail chains, to manufacturers, have been redesigning their business services and operations and re-engineering their supply chains. The system can now automatically receive all approved Purchase Orders so receipts can be reconciled against orders. Yosun holds B.S.

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Supply Chain Disruptions Directly Attributed to a Portion of US Inflation

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters posting, we highlight a published analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco quantifying the effects of supply chain disruptions have had on the existing U.S. This analysis concludes that supply driven factors such as manufacturing or logistics disruptions are contributing 2.5

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This Week in Logistics News (April 24 – 30)

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The figure includes Panasonic’s purchase of the remaining 80 percent of shares in Blue Yonder for $5.6 Previously, some Prime members could get Amazon Fresh orders and Whole Foods deliveries dropped off in their garage, but only if they lived in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

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Starting next week in selected cities, consumers will see new features in the Uber Eats app and website designed to make grocery shopping more convenient, intuitive and reliable, San Francisco-based Uber Technologies said Thursday. to get online orders to doors quicker and at a lower cost.