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WalMart's Sustainability Goals for 2025

WalMart has pushed its supply chain sustainability goals for years and achieved impressive results. They've recently looked out to the year 2025 and have updated goals and created new ones. Read more...

The Election and the Supply Chain

For a different perspective on Donald Trump's election, we look to Bob Ferrarri on the Supply Chain Matters site. He takes a little deeper dive into supply chain-specific effects. Read more...

Spend Matters View of Trump's Election

The surprise 'win' by Donald Trump at the polls has shaken things up a bit. That could be the understatement of the year.... Read more...

API's to Replace EDI?

In the latest chapter of the 'when is EDI going away' saga, Jeff McCandless makes a case for replacing it with APIs. According to his article on the EBN site, supply chains that continue to depend on EDI will be unable to keep up with the pace of ecommerce-driven business. Read more...

Amazon Dominates the Cloud

As cloud usage continues to grow, so apparently does Amazon's dominance in that arena. Their AWS division has made some recent partnerships that seem to be intended to maintain and grow their position. Read more...

Retailers Bet on Omnichannel

The omnichannel consumer continues to shake up supply chains world-wide. According to a recent Supply Chain Dive post, retailers plan to invest in improved order management and visibility tools in the coming year to support multi-channel buyers. Read more...

Executing Customer-centric Strategies

Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, has been doing some thinking about customer-centric supply chains. Lots of companies think they're executing their strategies well, yet Lora sees some gaps. Read more...

Manufacturers Struggle to Attract Developers

Manufacturers are having problems attracting top software talent, according to the folks at the Supply Chain Digest. Companies like GE are investing heavily in IoT and other technologies with far reaching impact, but developers aren't excited about it. Read more...

Macy Moves Forward on RFID

Interest in RFID technology seems to wax and wane, but it sounds like Macy's is making a big bet on it. According to Jennifer McKevitt's blog on the Supply Chain Dive site, they're implementing a plan to tag 100% of their store merchandise by next year. Read more...

Keep an Eye on Blockchain

Blockchain is a technology to keep an eye on, according to Hailey Lynne McKeffrey on the EBN site. She writes that Blockchain has some potential in the supply chain because it could support new processes. Read more...

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