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The Role of Loans in Scaling E-Commerce Supply Chains

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Loans can save you everything, from funding inventory purchases to pay for innovations in common functions. Grand View Research recently reported that the global e-commerce market will be valued at$25.93 Inventory Financing Inventory loans are created to help businesses purchase stock upfront. in CAGR by 2030.

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Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacturers and Consumer-centric Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Michael Baudendistel ( @FWavesRail ), an analyst and Market Expert at FreightWaves, reports, “There were some interesting, if perhaps intuitive, highlights from the latest University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Taking the Digital Path to Purchase. ”[3]. Stable Consumer Behaviors.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23-27, 2017)

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UPS Forecasts Another Record-Breaking Holiday Shipping Season. Alphabet looks to snowy Michigan to test self-driving cars (Reuters). Manhattan Associates Reports Solid Third Quarter Performance. Ryder Reports Third Quarter 2017 Results. DCLI to Purchase TRAC Intermodal’s Domestic Chassis Fleet.

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Understanding the Bullwhip Effect: Causes, Examples, and Strategies for Prevention

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Jason Miller, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University, clarifies the difference: “The bullwhip effect is the idea that the variance in orders becomes amplified as you move upstream in the supply chainfrom retailer to wholesaler, wholesaler to manufacturer, and so on.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 30 – June 3, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Michigan Puts Forward Bills to Allow for Public Sales of Driverless Cars (WSJ- sub. And this week, Reuters reported that Walmart is “six to nine months from beginning to use drones to check warehouse inventories in the United States.” The company demonstrated the use of drones to reporters this week at one of its distribution centers.

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Putting the “S” Back in the S&OP Planning Process

Supply Chain Opz

Professor Zondag is a professor from supply chain program at Western Michigan University which is ranked one of the best program in the nation. We are however suggesting that financial planning and reporting are an outcome of the S&OP process only.

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2016: The Year of Connectivity

Talking Logistics

There are no longer stores and e-commerce and m-commerce channels—it is all just commerce, with the consumer deciding which path to purchase they will take at any point in time. Manufacturing and distribution plans can no longer be based on what was shipped from the DC last month. It is now “connect and conquer.” Seamless Fulfillment.