- 21. How Different Will Retail be as Tech Buying Takes Over?
- (Retail)
- ... customer purchase decisions are solely due to low prices, convenience or lack of it can greatly impact buying behaviors of customers and this can lead to loss of long-time clients to a competitor. This ...
- 22. Apply Data Science to Enhance Your Supplier Relations
- (Retail)
- ... accuracy in forecasting demand. Big data algorithms give companies insights on competitors, customers and strategies their marketing department can use to increase sales. As competition continues rising ...
- 23. Supply Chain Start-Up Shipium's Software Enables Retailers to Offer Fast and Reliable Shippin
- (Technology)
- ... they don’t have any direct competitors – there are not the only start-up trying to solve the gap of rapid shipping. Also based in Seattle- Flexe offers online companies on-demand warehousing, fulfillment, ...
- 24. AI is Popping Up in the Supply Chain
- (News)
- ... business is conducted worldwide, it has never been so important to leverage new processes and applications to set organisations apart from competitors, particularly in the supply chain space. Read ...
- 25. AI Increases Supply Chain Visibility
- (Technology)
- ... edge against its competitors. Through innovative AI systems that have the capacity to integrate connected devices from suppliers, format and analyze collected data for businesses, faster and better ...
- 26. After abandoning air express deliveries, FedEx will also stop ground deliveries for Amazon
- (Retail)
- ... will become a direct competitor to FedEx in the coming days. In fact, Amazon is now building its infrastructure which includes cargo planes, trucks and is also investing in local delivery drivers. The ...
- 27. How adding AI to the supply chain can improve results
- (Integration)
- In the past decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come out as something that people use almost every day without even realizing it. Apart from powering a huge number of applications and other digital ...
- 28. Measuring Supply Chain Performance
- (Management)
- ... can also be used to increase visibility and enable organizations to have better control and stay ahead of their competitors.Identify and employ the right technologies to streamlining your supply chain ...
- 29. AI Assisted Retail
- (News)
- ... of others. Optimal Product Pricing Historically, merchants didn’t have a way of detecting competitors’ prices and knowing when the prices have changed. Today, companies have vast pricing data and pricing ...
- 30. Brace for the Rush
- (Management)
- ... the needs of seasonal volumes. For its part, the USPS has a good history of delivering the vast majority of its volume on time and to the right destination over its long history. UPS, FedEx and their competitors ...
- 31. Get a handle on big data and make your supply chain top of its class
- (Technology)
- Big data has the potentials to be of great benefits to an organization. It is much more than just data; rather it is an engine that boosts the performance of an organization in a stable, seamless, and ...
- 32. Supply Chain Management Jobs are Now Premium Positions
- (Management)
- ... get the tech aspects and simply run the business as it has been run in the past are likely to let their company be eclipsed by competitors with better more capable management. From the inside Finding ...
- 33. Who Cares About Cyber Attacks on Supply Chains?
- (Management)
- ... Competitors may want to delay products in transit and the US is the target in nearly 30% of all targeted attack incidents, making it the largest recipient. More than 70% of the attacks are initiated ...
- 34. Online Holiday Shoppers May Break Distribution Channels
- (Retail)
- ... stores. They expect orders to be on-time and as-ordered. And retailers who don’t meet up with the new standards can expect to lose out to their competitors immediately. That’s because loyalty is no longer ...
- 35. It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, it’s a Walmart Blimp!
- (Supply)
- ... in more than 450 locations across the US. And it’s already lowered prices on many of what’s often been termed “Whole Paycheck” items to make shopping there more in line with its budget targeting competitors ...
- 36. Walmart - The NEW Mandate
- (EDI)
- ... doesn’t want the digital guts of its business hosted on a competitor’s site. That’s understandable, and in fact in 2014 the company moved its entire ecommerce presence to the cloud - and not Amazon’s cloud. ...
- 37. Amazon in the Logistics Space
- (News)
- Bob Ferrarri predicted a couple years ago that Amazon was getting into the transportation and logistics arena and would soon be competing with 3PLs. As is usually the case, he was right.In a followup article ...
- 38. Supply Chain Mayhem - Avoid It
- (Management)
- ... in your category next year. Look around at your competitors and see how they are handling the digital transformation, then compare it to yours. Listen to what your customers are asking for and complaining ...
- 39. Unmanned Delivery Options are Changing the Supply Chain
- (Logistics)
- ... have been steadily gaining traction but the last couple months. Let’s take a quick look at the list of technologies affecting last mile delivery. Uber (and competitors) delivery services Drone and ...
- 40. WalMart's Big Acquisitio
- (News)
- In hot news for the retail market, WalMart has spent big to acquire an Amazon competitor, Jet.com. According to Bob Ferrarri on the Supply Chain Matters site, this is an effort to jump-start their omnichannel ...
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