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The Demand Powered Supply Chain: How to Win as the Bar Continues to Rise in the Retail Industry

CH Robinson Logistics

This is especially true in the retail space, as a surge in ecommerce and pandemic-driven demand volatility increased the rate of change in an already rapidly evolving industry. You start paying more immediately for backup carriers, or worse, pay much more if you go to the spot market to procure trucks. Increase savings.

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How to Avoid Stockouts with Better Inventory Management

EazyStock

A basic risk of stockout spreadsheet can be easily set up using the following data: Current stock items, items on order and in transit. Ensuring your Data is Accurate and Up-to-Date. Similarly, you may want to increase eCommerce prices across your digital channels to lower demand and avoid showing ‘out-of-stock’. Lead times.

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Is the “Autonomous Supply Chain” a Pipe Dream?

Logistics Viewpoints

Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. Aera Technology is showing me how mistaken I was. These crawlers never stop working.

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Sustainability Strategies & Tactics for Ecommerce Brand

Ship Monk

Trouble is, managing an ecommerce brand involves certain unavoidable carbon-causing activities like packaging, shipping and returns. Image Source: EcoMatcher How to Calculate Your Carbon Footprint If you’re serious about sustainability, you should start by calculating your carbon footprint.

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Optimizing Your Store’s Ecommerce Supply Chain

Ship Monk

There are a lot of moving parts to managing an ecommerce supply chain. An ecommerce store owner is expected to master everything from sourcing materials to manufacturing and procurement, to fulfillment and shipping orders to customers. Today we’re going to take a look at a typical ecommerce supply chain from beginning to end.

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Top Ecommerce Metrics to Track

Ship Monk

When you’re driving a car down the road, you have to keep your eye on a few things: how much gas is in the tank, how fast you’re going, whe-ther or not you left the blinker on, to name a few. Now if only you had a dashboard to keep your ecommerce business running. Well, guess what? So, what’s on your dashboard?

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What Could Crush Your Supply Chain and Jeopardize Your Business This Year?

Stord

From our daily engagement (and years of deep industry experience), these are some of the issues that should prove most impactful this year, and some ideas on how to overcome some of those challenges. Naturally, with many different systems and delays in information exchange, this often leads to incorrect or outdated data.