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Editor’s Choice: 8 Supply Chain Planning Challenges Retailers Will Face In 2022 And Tips To Overcome Them

Logistics Viewpoints

The ongoing chip crisis since last year affecting 100+ industries is the best example: supply couldn’t meet the increased demand, which led to rising prices and shortages in computers, cars, and pretty much any other electronics product with chips. Changing trends in lifestyle and impacts on fashion retail.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

The percentage of purchases made and fulfilled through digital commerce has exploded in the past two years, advancing a pre-pandemic trend by as much as 10 years according to some industry watchers. Automate, automate, automate – This is not a new idea or trend.

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Leverage freight data for confident demand planning

FreightWaves SONAR

In this blog post, we’ll walk through some of the obstacles to medium-term demand planning, consider how high-frequency supply chain data can help fill the informational gaps that companies are grappling with, and then look at a real-world example of how the data in FreightWaves SONAR can give insight into the goods economy.

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Inventory Management in Service Logistics Industry

Talking Logistics

Is there a common trend in inventory management? Hence following so-called industry trends may not always yield targeted results. Example A: Fashion Retailer – Business Strategy is short life cycle products. Example A: Fashion Retailer – Business Strategy is short life cycle products. What does it mean for inventory?

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Ways to Handle Excess Inventory in Retail

ShipLilly

This is a trend that is undesirable since excess inventory tends to have a detrimental effect on cash flow. For example, some businesses could position themselves as the source for hard-to-find items that have not been recently stocked by most rivals. Of course, this is only possible with goods with a long expiry date.

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Finding Your Ecommerce Brand Niche

Ship Monk

A product category like apparel, for example, has too many subcategories to be considered a niche. If you’re already knee deep in design iterations and fulfillment provider RFPs, we hope you’ve already gone through this exercise. Historical Trends: Is this niche growing, holding steady, or heading downhill? What is Not a Niche?

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Drone Operator Wanted: apply within?

Logistics Business Magazine

” Driving the demand are a number of trends that will bring with them other problems. Autonomous trucks and drones are the 800-pound gorilla in logistics technology trends,” according to Adam Robinson from logistics company, Cerasis. So, can scale and heritage continue to be a source of value? It’s for people.”