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Thanksgiving Survey: Cyber Monday Grabs Spending, Mass Merchants Are Top Physical Destinations

Material Handling and Logistics

“People have responded to the early promotions that retailers have put in play to outdo the competition -- from early Black Friday deals to free shipping -- but the event still holds its place as a holiday tradition,” said Rod Sides, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP and U.S. retail and distribution leader.

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The Power of Impactful Employee Incentive Programs & How To Measure Their Success

WorkWave

Retaining Top Talent and Keeping Employees Happy The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) conducted a survey estimating that employers spend the equivalent of six to nine months of an employee’s salary to properly find and train their replacement. Top Three Non-Monetary Incentives 1.

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LM survey takes a look at impact of federal government shutdown on logistics operations

247 Customs Broker

About two weeks ago, I thought it would be a good idea to send out a research “blast” survey to LM readers about the Federal Government shutdown, which was in its third week at that time. And consumer confidence, which can be viewed as somewhat of a “quirky” indicator, also stumbled to low levels over the course of the shutdown.

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

Logistics Viewpoints

Events and disruptions are par for the course in supply chain, so we need tactics to kick in for problem resolution. Global Network, 48% of the supply chain professionals in their 2023 survey on Next Generation Talent did not feel the technology at their company helps them do their job efficiently and effectively.

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Demand Forecasting: How It Enhances Ecommerce Operations

Ship Monk

This type of data must be actively gathered by researching market trends, analyzing the competitive landscape, conducting consumer surveys and focus groups. Of course, the more data you need and the more sophisticated your methods are, the more expensive demand forecasting becomes. Qualitative data is more subjective.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

The American and Canadian militaries believe that the balloon was for surveillance, while the Chinese government said it was a civilian meteorological research airship that had blown off course. In its January survey of grocery executives and consumers, Grocery Doppio, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based Retailers in the U.S.

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Top Ten Tips to Boost Supply Chain Performance to Best in Class

Logistics Bureau

If you haven’t already, survey them! Group them by their needs and then develop your customer service policy around that, and what you can reasonably afford. In fact, I’ll be showing guests at our events exactly how to do it. Yes of course there are. I wish it were that simple. Are there more?