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Macy Moves Along With Omnichannel
Macy's approach to addressing the omnichannel challenge is explained in a recent discussion article on the RetailWire site by George Anderson. They were one of the major retailers who moved early and it's interesting to see how far along they've come.
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Key Trends Affecting Logistics
Every corner of the supply chain is under pressure just to keep up with change. The logistics process is a great example of an aspect of the supply chain that's coming to grip with macro changes that affect us all.
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Hadoop It Up!
Almost everyone in the business world has heard the work 'Hadoop' in the last year, I'd bet. Do you know what it is and why it should mean something to you?
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eSourcing Adoption Questions
In a Spend Matters article, Jeff Gilkerson from the Hackett Group looks at eSourcing tools and wonders why adoption and usage is so low. There's a lot involved in implementing such tools and processes, and the short answer to the adoption question seems to be that change is difficult.
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Can Your ERP Handle New Tech?
New technologies in the business world don't just generate spontaneously. They usually need a strong base of transactional data on which their growth can be based. If that's the case, it's your ERP that can make or break your success.
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Use Big Data to Provide Visibility
Supply chain visibility and Big Data are two hot topics. What if they can be leveraged by working together to provide even more value? It's possible, according to Larry Lewis on the Talking Logistics site.
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Gartner's Supply Chain Insights
It's impossible to keep up with everything going on in the supply chain space. Gartner, though, usually has a great handle on current affairs. Paul Lord, on the Gartner site, describes a few of the themes from a recent round of executive briefings.
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Do Best Practices Matter?
Almost everyone can recall being lectured about 'best practices' at one time or another. Sometimes it made sense, others not so much.
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Improving Supply Chain Visibility
On the EBN site, Mathieu Guerville discusses a recent move by UL to address the issue of data flow among suppliers. Clean data being shared across the supply chain is a major key to quality and visibility, according to recent research by the Aberdeen and Gartner groups.
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3PL's Add Services
3PLs have had a place in the logistics landscape for quite awhile. They're not standing still, though. Adrian Gonzalez thinks the word 'convergence' is an appropriate designation for how 3PLs are adding additional services to their traditional offering.
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