- 21. How Did Your Supply Chain Fail Your Black Friday Efforts?
- (Retail)
- ... met by retailers ready to deliver (literally) without shelf stock. Buyers have shown their willingness to wait 2 days for delivery of nearly every product they buy. What Black Friday adds to the mix is ...
- 22. Selling Cloud Based Supply Chain Services To Non-Technical Clients
- (Management)
- ... a need-to-know priority? In one sentence, it comes down to this: “How can you find genuine cloud computing buyers without assessing them first?” No technician wants to drop by a client’s office, without ...
- 23. Brace for the Rush
- (Management)
- ... online purchases. For its part, Amazon is trying to get ahead of the game by offering free shipping for the rest of the year to every customer. That means buyers that don’t spend the usual $25 minimum ...
- 24. Alibaba, the Supply Chain, and Changes in China
- (Management)
- ... buyers and sellers to meet and make deals online. Today this includes C2B, B2B, and a plethora of other online services that Alibaba has either created or acquired. Each one affects thousands of supply ...
- 25. New Platform Wants to Streamline Communication
- (News)
- K+N and GT Nexus have partnered to launch a supply chain management platform, reports PYMNTS.com. The platform will connect connect all of the supply chain partners, including buyers, sellers, global shippers ...
- 26. Online Holiday Shoppers May Break Distribution Channels
- (Retail)
- ... 17% of Voxware’s respondents completing more then 75% of their buying between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. 56% of those buyers expect their orders to arrive within 2 days - and that 2 day delivery be ...
- 27. Reverse logistics will trash your inventory plans
- (Retail)
- ... forward Forward logistics is what most people think of when they contemplate stocking warehouses. Buyers project sales for the period, place orders, stock distribution centers and local warehouses, stock ...
- 28. Retailers Bet on Omnichannel
- (News)
- The omnichannel consumer continues to shake up supply chains world-wide. According to a recent Supply Chain Dive post, retailers plan to invest in improved order management and visibility tools in the ...
- 29. 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 ...
- 30. 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 ...
- 31. 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 ...
- 32. The Year of Omnichannel
- (News)
- 2015 may well be considered the Year of the Omnichannel Consumer. According to research from several sources reported on the PYMNTS site, changes in supply chains and in the purchasing process of retail ...
- 33. How Much Does an EDI Transaction Cost?
- (EDI)
- It’s fairly well documented that EDI and automated B2B processes can save money over manual, paper-based transactions. But just how much money are buyers and suppliers paying per EDI transaction, and are ...
- 34. Your EDI Payments - Exposed
- (EDI)
- ... to get better payment terms with the suppliers, our buyers are placing orders in a way that all arrive between the 25th and the 5th of the following month, so we get buried. Without the ASN and comfort ...
- 35. 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 ...
- 36. The Perfect Metric? Take A Closer Look
- (EDI)
- ... priorities and energies are invested elsewhere. So instead of focusing on perfect orders, buyers are likely to get more bang for their buck by identifying (and rewarding) suppliers who outperform the market. ...
- 37. 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 ...
- 38. Scorecards vs. Continuous Compliance Monitoring
- (Management)
- ... as many buyers have painfully learned, the partnership can become chaotic and nearly impossible. Most fall somewhere in the middle, and a key to success requires cultivating the best vendors while culling ...
- 39. EDI is More Than Just Digits
- (EDI)
- ... IT connections may be simply to acknowledge their importance. It’s easy to forget that a partnership implies a close relationship, yet one of the clear benefits of EDI is that it enables both buyers and ...
- 40. Avoid Compliance Problems With Better Communications
- (Management)
- ... which can be easily overlooked. When sales reps and buyers talk on a regular basis, it can seem that everything is going along fine. But many times these issues require more than the routine exchanges ...
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