- 1. These Are the Most Common and In-Demand Supply Chain Job Titles
- (Management)
- ... supervisor is to oversee the daily operations within a warehouse. They handle receiving goods, ensure end-user or purchaser receives the right item and handle inventory storage. They manage warehouse workers, ...
- 2. Managing Your Supply Chain Requires These 4 Things
- (Management)
- ... same time, suppliers want a high, predictable sales volume. Purchasers, on the other hand, are looking for a reliable and efficient cost with low cost. With the right relationships, both these goals ...
- 3. Everything Is In the Cloud - Except for B2B transactions
- (Technology)
- ... the product to market. That’s a much simpler process since the transactions only move between two parties - the purchaser/customer and the supplier. Simply put the data into well documented and standardized ...
- 4. Integrating 3pl with Omnichannel Sales Can be a Big Plus
- (Integration)
- ... be shipped to the purchaser? Perhaps the vendor seeks to allow customers to buy products online that are then shipped somewhere. If the retailer does not have the wherewithal to fulfill those sales themselves, ...
- 5. The Interplay Of Dropship And Omni-Channel
- (Logistics)
- ... immediate delivery, purchasers went to stores to buy the products they wanted immediately and bought items online they didn’t need or want right away. Even multi-nationals, such as Target and Target.com ...
- 6. EDI Modifications and Updates
- (EDI)
- ... be always vigilant in keeping up with subsequent changes requested by purchasers. Both jobs require both wide awareness, to keep track of multiple partnerships, and great attention to detail. These are ...
- 7. Omnichannel vs. Showrooming
- (News)
- We've written in the past about the concept of 'showrooming' and the stress it places on brick and mortar retailers. With the omnichannel purchaser becoming more ubiquuitous, some high-profile firms have ...
- 8. Last Mile Challenges
- (News)
- On the Logistics Viewpoints site, Chris Cunnane explains why the explosive growth of ecommerce is causing headaches for retailers. As on-line and omnichannel purchases increase, more pressure is felt to ...
- 9. Time To Cry For Argentina: Government Cracks Down On Foreign E-Commerce
- (Management)
- ... costs. Moreover, items exceeding the initial $25 limit will not be permitted to be delivered to the purchaser’s home, or even a post office box. Instead, the purchaser/importer will have to pick up the ...
- 10. What is Amazon Supply Doing?
- (Blogs)
- ... to mesh with their processes, and who value the services provided by distributors as part of their relationship, are. It gets back to a key difference between B2C and B2B purchasers. B2B is all about process, ...
- 11. Google Expands Same-Day Delivery
- (News)
- As many companies are trying to figure out how to support omnichannel purchasers and other supply chain and customer service challenges, leaders in the retail space are attempting to solve the 'last-mile' ...
- 12. The Magic of POS Data - Use It.
- (Retail)
- ... to the purchaser and the retailer. Properly used, POS data can provide a history, the present state, and a prediction of the future. But those are only possible if the data is collected, stored, and provided ...
- 13. What's Wrong with Vendor
- (Supply)
- ... they will transact business. Why then does the relationship between vendors and purchasers go wrong so frequently? In short, the problems arise because either one or both parties are not keeping up their ...
- 14. Omni-Channel Perspective
- (News)
- Bill Davis, on a new site called "omnichannelretailing.com" has an interesting perspective on, well, omni-channel retailing. He has issues with a recent critical article he'd like to share.Read his thoughts ...
- 15. B2B Research Results
- (News)
- Details of a new study by hybris have been released on the Market Watch site. According to their research, B2B ecommerce purchasers are demanding a B2C-type user experience and functionality. To those ...
- 16. The Amazon Effect on Distributors
- (Supply)
- ... tight, pricing is good, and there will always be a segment of business purchasers attracted to their offering. Distributors who can deliver value will survive. It’s that simple. Not all business ...
- 17. Is "Showrooming" a Problem
- (News)
- Cross-channel shopping isn't new, but consumer behavior in the mobile commerce era has created some new approaches to shopping. Does your retail 'brick and mortar' store you've spent a fortune to build ...
- 18. MRO and EDI- a Good Match?
- (Retail)
- ... by using EDI to buy MRO. Although we worked through issues with many partners, our success rate was very high overall. The experience of our project managers and analysts in working with MRO purchasers ...
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