- 1. Last Mile Delivery Issues
- (Logistics)
- ... the past few years Amazon has set out to change that. In 2017, they announced Amazon Lockers. Amazon Prime members get their items shipped to a public location such as a grocery store or a gas station. ...
- 2. Last Mile Delivery Discussion
- (News)
- The battle to determine the winners and losers for control of the 'last mile' continues. A recent Q & A session with an experienced consultant and an industry veteran by the Supply Chain Digest staff uncovers ...
- 3. Supply Chain & Logistics Trends for the New Year
- (News)
- January is almost past, but it's not too late to read about supply chain & logistics trends, particularly when they're from one of our favorite sources.Steve Banker, Chris Cunnane, and Clint Reiser from ...
- 4. On-Line Ordering Impact
- (News)
- ... the physical and administrative capabilities of university dorms and multi-tenant buildings.In a blog on the Operations Room site, Marty Lariviere looks at how this situation is generating the use of lockers ...
- 5. Competition for the Last Mile
- (Blogs)
- ... cost? When I read through recent articles on the topic, it seems like they’re all considered ‘last mile’ issues. Heck, delivery-to-store and to storage lockers can even be thought of in the same vein. ...
- 6. Big Retailers and Omnichannel
- (News)
- What the mega-retailers are doing with omni-channel illustrates where everyone else will eventually arrive. They're applying theory to the real world for a concept that many feel is overblown.In a Retail ...
- 7. Store Changes at Staples
- (News)
- The omnichannel consumer is beginning to affect retailers in many different ways. In an article on the Internet Retailer site, Zak Stambor talks about recent changes made at some Staples locations to better ...
- 8. What's Omni-Channel Mean to Me
- (Retail)
- ... DCs, and customers. Let’s not forget our supply chain people! The omni-channel focus has driven activities such as distribution center location changes, storage lockers for deliveries, stores as delivery ...
- 9. Lock it Up
- (News)
- How can you do something innovative with a delivery destination? Braden Kelley on his blogsite thinks Amazon has discovered something new. Delivery lockers have been tried before, but it looks like ...
- 10. Cash and Checks on Way Out
- (Retail)
- ... Locker, Toys R Us, and Barnes & Noble. The Economist magazine this week featured retail banking as a theme. While it presented, with its usual professionalism, a range of perspectives, there was general ...
- 11. Marlow Talks Combos
- (Integration)
- ... In some cases the retailer will include a reference number that is associated with the assortment for the musical run instead of an assortment UPC (i.e Footlocker refers to these as a “Caselot” number). ...
- 12. Cecil’s Addition/Subtraction
- (Management)
- ... other hand, diversity and lack of consistency in EDI implementations is definitely not a good thing. As a case in point, I just started working on the mapping of the Footlocker 860 for my client. The experience ...
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