- 41. Moving Toward Integration
- (News)
- Integration between suppliers and buyers can be a competitive advantage. Unfortunately, a low percentage of relationships are at the stage where they can be considered advantageous. On the Supply Chain ...
- 42. Whither the Supplier Catalog?
- (News)
- Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell of Spend Matters are duking it out on the topic of catalog use in procurement. In 2 recent posts on the site, we learn the pro and con arguments as well as alternatives ...
- 43. Retail by the App
- (Retail)
- ... search function combined with turn-by-turn walking navigation to guide buyers. More advanced apps combine this basic search with additional prompts like “More like this” and others go farther by suggesting ...
- 44. The Year of Omnichannel
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- 45. How Much Does an EDI Transaction Cost?
- (EDI)
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- 46. Your EDI Payments - Exposed
- (EDI)
- ... Without the ASN, calls are required by the buyer to the supplier about the status of the order. Without the ASN, the retailer's DC is not aware of what is coming until the trailer arrives, thus ...
- 47. Measuring the Omnichannel Supply Chain
- (News)
- You may think your omnichannel efforts are all that, but what do your customers think about it? Measuring customer satisfaction is always challenging, and dealing with omnichannel buyers adds an even greater ...
- 48. The Perfect Metric? Take A Closer Look
- (EDI)
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- 49. Omnichannel Delivers
- (News)
- Ever wonder why so much focus is on the omnichannel customer? Recent studies show they deliver 21% more profit than single channel buyers...that may explain it!IBM has done a lot of research on the topic ...
- 50. Change Your Supply Chain Alignment
- (News)
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