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Retail supply chain management and the rise of fast fashion

Kinaxis

by Ilyas Kucukcay From the incredible pace of turnover in style trends to the excess waste it produces, today’s fast fashion phenomenon is a controversial topic on many fronts. However, when it comes to the efficiency of today’s retail supply chain management techniques, controversy is replaced by admiration as international clothiers boast operations efficient enough to accurately anticipate demand in one of the world’s most rapidly changing industries.

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What Value Are You Getting From Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

ou Feasibility (noun) : The state or degree of being easily or conveniently done. (Oxford Dictionary). In the 1990s supply chain planning was over-hyped. Then it was a new and promising technology category. The ride was wild and wooly. Hype ruled. A decade later, as companies added planners expecting dramatic improvements, the market entered the trough of disillusionment.

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Advanced Visibility in Emergency Response Situations

Talking Logistics

We all know the important role that supply chain and logistics people, processes, and technologies play in everyday commerce. Those capabilities and expertise also play a critical role in responding effectively to emergency situations such as natural disasters. What unique challenges arise from these incidents? How can the supply chain and logistics industry help?

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Travel Time Is Key to Lowering Labor Costs in Your Distribution Center

GlobalTranz

Travel time in the warehouse represents one of the biggest costs in modern distribution centers. Pickers must put away incoming product, pull product, and move products to packaging and processing zones. Like transportation management for shipped product, effective labor management and lean processes in the warehouse are key to lowering labor costs in your distribution center.

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4 Ways To Drive Supply Chain Excellence in the Food Industry

The Supplier Relationship Management Playbook is your guide to building effective supplier partnerships that drive supply chain excellence. This playbook equips supply chain professionals with strategies for managing compliance, tracking performance, and fostering collaboration to reduce supply chain risks. Inside, you’ll find: Strategies for Compliance: Best practices to help meet regulatory standards.

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Seeing LCL In A New Light

Freightos

For many shippers, air freight wins out on speed and convenience and FCL (full container load) seems a better deal on cost. But, that often means LCL is overlooked as a mode when it would have been the better option. But for several reasons, that perception is changing, many shippers are now seeing LCL in a new light: Forwarders are increasingly providing direct LCL services, reducing the need for trans-shipment.

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The Digital Supply Chain is more about Transformation than Technology

Enterra Insights

New technologies always open doors to new opportunities and new possibilities. Nevertheless, business consultants caution executives not to pursue the latest shiny toy without a good reason. Those consultants often repeat the mantra, “Don’t change for change’s sake.” Consultant Rick DeMarco ( @rickd0216 ) explains, “The power to change is the power to grow.

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Building the Business Case for Supply Chain Risk Management

GlobalTranz

Imagine you’re an executive of a large international business who has just discovered an excellent opportunity of entering a new exciting market just in time when your product design team has developed a perfect product for that market. Naturally, to take advantage of this opportunity, you will need a well-functioning supply chain, which you happen to have.

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The ‘Rights’ and ‘Mores’ of Supply Chain Execution

Talking Logistics

Gary Barraco, Director of Global Product Marketing at Amber Road , discusses the following questions and more in this timely and informative episode: What are the six “rights” of supply chain execution? What are the “mores” that are redefining the rules for success? In light of these new rules for success defined by these “rights” and “mores,” how should companies respond?

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The History of Supply Chain Management! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published by Jason Rosing and Veridian at [link] Permission to publish provided by Jason Rosing. Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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New Retail Business Models Support the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

The rise of e-commerce and the consumer digital path to purchase has been a nightmare for some retailers from which they can’t awake. This has been especially true for large, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers that failed to master omnichannel operations. Daphne Howland ( @daphnehowland ) reports one new business model that has flourished in this new retail environment is direct-to-consumer (D2C) marketing.

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Digital Inventory Management Key Battleground in Transformation of Brick-and-Mortar Retail

GlobalTranz

As e-commerce growth accelerates, shippers are working overtime to manage available inventory. Although e-commerce represents 10 percent of total retail sales, it has had an interesting effect. It catalyzed brick-and-mortar retailers to offer online shopping opportunities, which require much more than manual inventory management practices. As a result, brick-and-mortar retail has become more focused on digital inventory management, a building block in the road to omnichannel supply chains , t

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Portfolio Pruning for Product Managers

Arkieva

Do others challenge your expanding portfolio or complicated offering? Need a portfolio pruning process or policy to keep a manageable inventory? Want to take the drama out of keeping or deleting products? Portfolio Pruning for Product Managers was first posted on November 20, 2018 at 8:45 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Multienterprise Supply Chain Business Networks

E2open

Multienterprise networks and the ability to connect to external partner ecosystems have been recognized as a critical capability for digital transformation. Gartner examined the multienterprise network landscape and evaluated each vendor’s ability to execute and completeness of vision. In addition to be ranked highest overall for combined completeness of vision and ability to execute, E2open was placed furthest on the completeness of vision axis by a wide margin.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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The Thanksgiving Turkey Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! (Videos). Recently we were driving on some back roads and in the distance we saw something on the road. As we got closer we saw that there were a bunch of wild turkeys about to cross the road. The turkeys, hearing us coming, immediately turned around and quickly went back down the side road that they had come from.

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Preparing Your Business for the Holidays? Don't Forget These Supply Chain Essentials

Elementum

Your customers want products to be available every day of the year. But when the holiday season arrives, their anxiety about having that perfect gift or deal — on time — puts enormous pressure on your brand. By approaching efficiency as a year-round problem and organizing your operations around the guiding light of product availability, you can turn the stress of the holidays into an opportunity to show customers your mettle.

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Why Do We Plan?

Adexa

When it comes to supply chains, we plan for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the cost of not planning is extremely high resulting in much higher operation costs and bad customer service. In other words, the recipe for going out of business! Basically, we plan to be predictable, The post Why Do We Plan? appeared first on Adexa Inc.

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Does Artificial Intelligence Enabled Demand Forecasting Improve Supply Chain Efficiency?

Supply Chain 24/7

Improving demand forecasting with artificial intelligence is one of the most promising applications for supply chains, but how do the non-traditional methods compare in performance with established forecasting practices?

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.

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Is Your Supply Chain A Cost Centre or a Value Creator?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Brand Protection – The Definitive Role of the Supply Chain! The Supply Chain function within your company has many responsibilities. From planning to negotiating to buying, from moving goods to processing goods, and from managing data to managing inventory. These responsibilities are at the core of making your company run.

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Master Production Schedule: How to free up hours to grow your manufacturing business

TradeGecko

Sometimes, it feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day — scratch that, for many small businesses there aren’t. Oftentimes you’ll feel like you are constantly playing catch-up. You get one order away on deadlines when another comes in. And preparing for Black Friday, Cyber Monday or the Christmas rush ? The less said about that the better! Spending more money to increase productivity seems like the only way out, but tight margins can make this difficult.

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E2open Buy-Sell Management

E2open

When manufacturing or construction is outsourced, materials procurement is often outsourced along with it. As a result, enterprises quickly lose visibility into essential planning and execution data. E2open’s Buy-Sell Management application helps companies regain visibility and control over materials procurement, lowering procurement spend and improving supply chain efficiency.

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MonarchFx Announces ToyHouse LLC as its Newest Seller Client

Supply Chain Network

RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB) November 19, 2018. MonarchFx, a nationwide alliance of best-in-class providers focused on delivering integration, cost efficiency, and high service fulfillment solutions for brands and retailers through distributed logistics, announces our newest client, ToyHouse LLC. ToyHouse LLC is the exclusive distributor for LEGO Systems, Inc. in the United States and is excited to partner with small independent and specialty retailers on behalf of LEGO to provide the best customer ser

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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What Exactly is Blockchain? And How Does it Work? (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Blockchain in the Supply Chain is a Game Changer! Blockchain! Blockchain! Blockchain! What is all the fuss about? It’s a word that was rarely used or even heard of in Supply Chain not that long ago. But now it is very common to hear about Blockchain. Further it is often used in the context of being a necessary and integral part of any Digital Supply Chain Strategy.

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What Exactly Is Omnichannel 2.0 and How Is It Different?

Veridian Solutions

Omnichannel is a term frequently used in today’s modern supply chain management. Omnichannel capability is associated with getting product to the customer in any possible fashion, that is convenient for the customer. The emergence of e-commerce mainly drives this, and in the process, is turning traditional supply chain models on their heads. While omnichannel refers to the integration and seamless experience across channels for supply chain partners, omnichannel 2.0 takes it a bit further

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E2open Demand Sensing

E2open

Next-generation forecasting with E2open’s Demand Sensing application creates the most accurate picture of near-term demand. The application uses automation and machine-learning technology to analyze real-time supply chain data that includes orders, point-of-sale data, social media sentiment and more. Demand sensing algorithms determine the predictive influence of each signal and produce an accurate daily forecast for every item at every location.

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Improving Forecast Accuracy through Demand Sensing

Supply Chain 24/7

This research brief assesses the feasibility and potential value of implementing Demand Sensing in the supply chain of a major consumer medical device company - Johnson & Johnson Vision Care.

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What Makes a Warehouse Worker Happy?

The 2024 Newcastle Systems Worker Satisfaction Survey provides insights into the life of a warehouse worker and what matters to them.

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Truck Drivers – Unsung Heroes of the Supply Chain! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out What’s the Difference Between Logistics and Distribution? Anywhere you go anywhere in the world you will find truck drivers delivering goods. Roads and highways are filled with trucks of all shapes sizes. Tractor trailers of all configurations are everywhere on the roads. If you are driving a car you may be annoyed by all of these trucks.

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The Saga of WISMO: Delivery Disasters Bring WISMO to Life

Convey

In The Beginning It’s December of ‘97, and a portion of I-71 shuts down […]. The post The Saga of WISMO: Delivery Disasters Bring WISMO to Life appeared first on Convey.

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10 Industries That Can Benefit From Cloud Software

Unleashed

You may have come across the cloud as a common buzzword that is the must-have solution for business needs, from communication to data storage to application development. However, the cloud is no longer a one-size-fits-all solution. Best solutions for using cloud software now account for the nuances of specific industries. There are legitimate reasons behind the fact that many industries have been slow to adopt cloud software.