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Omnichannel Marketing, Visibility, and the Perfect Order
- Thursday, 20 August 2015
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- Written by Jeff Merron
One of the biggest business changes wrought by the rise of the Internet is omnichannel retailing – the ability for consumers to make purchases at any time in any place, and then have the product directly delivered to any address in the world.
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Report To Reveal Strategic Insights For Marketing Supply Chain Management
- Monday, 30 March 2015
- Supply
- Written by Tami Kamin Meyer
Global expansion might mean greater profits for international companies, but if their supply chain marketing materials are unorganized or unclear, bottom lines suffer, according to a study to be released soon by InfoTrends, a worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industry. The study, entitled The Future of Global Marketing Supply Chain Management, is designed to provide a clear understanding of the current state of and trends impacting the marketing supply chain for companies and the providers who serve it.
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Top Ten Concerns For Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Analyzed
- Monday, 02 March 2015
- Supply
- Written by Tami Kamin Meyer
The global pharmaceutical supply chain can now boast its own Top Ten list, ala comedian David Letterman. That’s because following nine months of extensive research on the topic, a report delineating and explaining the industry’s top concerns has been released.
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Supply Chain Predictions for 2015
- Monday, 29 December 2014
- Supply
- Written by Michael Martz
About this time last year, I predicted the hottest topics in the supply chain world for 2014 would be Big Data, robots, drones, same-day delivery, and M2M. Not bad, I’d say! Now, if I could only do as well with my stock market plays, football bets, and the lottery I’d be in much better financial shape.
Those were pretty easy pickings, in retrospect. The topics were all clearly visible on Gartner’s hype cycle by the end of 2013 and there weren’t many negatives out there to impact them.
Suppliers in the Chain
- Monday, 15 December 2014
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
I’ve been looking at an old topic recently - EDI testing. For you who have followed ec-bp.com since its humble beginnings, no doubt you recall our opinions regarding testing and charges associated with them. The issue hasn’t changed much. It seems retailers still need to test the documents they are asking their suppliers to submit, and suppliers keep trying to lower their expenses by trying to avoid testing. At what point do these opposing interests amount to mutual abuse?
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Slave Labor Plays Prominent Role In Worldwide Supply Chain
- Wednesday, 01 October 2014
- Supply
- Written by Tami Kamin Meyer
According to Verite, a think tank whose mission is promoting the ethical treatment of laborers worldwide, at least one in three foreign workers who responded to their recently released survey on slave labor in the Malaysian electronics market toils in conditions of forced labor.
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Innovation in the Supply Chain
- Friday, 05 September 2014
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
I've been reading "The Innovator's DNA," an interesting book about how companies can set themselves up to be better through what they call 'disruptive innovation.' I don't think this is an entirely new concept because there have certainly been plenty of innovations created my many companies, and those companies have thrived and grown. What's different in this book is that it provides specific traits and actions that companies can take to find and develop people who can make a difference.
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Fixing Your Supply Chain
- Monday, 18 August 2014
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
Supply chains are inherently complex. They are also every-day systems that require full time attention. OPSrules had put together a highly simplified recap of the top 5 things you can (should?) look at in your supply chain. These represent places to start when thinking about putting fixes in place.
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Product Safety in Your Supply Chain
- Wednesday, 30 July 2014
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
Your supply chain is in great shape. You have visibility with your suppliers and with your customers, and understand where orders are, and when issues arise you can spot the source and track it down. But when your products arrive, are you certain they meet all the safety and regulatory constraints that make them safe to sell? In 2013 alone there were 28 million product recalls. If you were involved with any of them you have a good idea what information you didn't have at your fingertips. Is there a better way to track and manage this sensitive information?
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Disruption in the Supply Chain
- Friday, 18 July 2014
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
For most of us involved in managing the supply chain, disruption is the last thing we want to consider. But many organizations are actually fostering disruptions of their own enterprise with goals to innovate and change the way things are done and the results that are achieved. Disruption caused by innovation can be seen as a progressive way to bring positive if dramatic changes to processes that have been functional for a long time.
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