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Retail Supply Chains: The State of Play in 2021

Logistics Bureau

Few retailers can hope to grow, or even survive today, without the ability to sell through ecommerce channels. In an article about online retail that I published at the end of 2019, I highlighted Target’s click-and-mortar retail model, which, even then, was positioning the company as an ecommerce trend-setter. The Dark Store Trend.

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LastMile Dialogues: Maximizing unit economics to unlock last mile efficiencies

Locus

The growth in the manufacturing sector is expected to boost the demand for express delivery and logistics services. Another industry that will increase the demand for the services of CEP companies is the manufacturing and automotive industry, which is seeing significant investments in alignment with the country’s development goals.

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The Top 6 Supply Chain Holiday Season Trends in 2021

Locus

to $1.093 trillion, while the season’s ecommerce sales will rise 11.3% Ecommerce will account for a record 18.9% Many businesses are still struggling from inflationary pressures on goods and inventory not meeting peak season demand. US ecommerce sales are projected to continue to grow by double digits, up 17.9%

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Top 10 Logistics Trends That Could Impact Supply Chains in 2022

Locus

With customers expecting ultra-express deliveries at a reasonable price, on-demand deliveries and same-day deliveries are becoming the new differentiators. As global supply chains struggle with providing same-day deliveries, localization of the supply chain has become a necessity for businesses.

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What Does it Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur? The Incredible Journey of a Last Mile Pioneer

Logistics Viewpoints

This was South Africa’s most well-known Ecommerce retail brand at the moment. They were very interested to test out an express delivery option – a three-hour delivery option from their Cape Town warehouse. This was an ecommerce florist with a distributed network marketplace. And they just don’t apply.

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How Digitalization can Revolutionize Your B2B E-commerce Business

Locus

As customer expectations kept rising, it was difficult for businesses to quickly adapt and meet them efficiently with these processes. They implemented traditional logistics efforts that were vastly ineffective and costly, thereby failing to fulfill the delivery promises. After digitalization. After digitalization.

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