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Is Omnichannel Making You Money?
Before a change is made, the most fundamental question a manager should ask is how the bottom line will be affected. As omnichannel consumers have forced all sort of changes to be made to supply chains, it may be a good idea to revisit that question.
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Using Analytics to Improve Logistics
We all know that analytics will make a big splash for supply chains, but can we get down to specifics? BCG takes a look at the impact on logistics in a recent article on their site.
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Are Green Supply Chains Important?
Supply chain sustainability is a topic you'd think would be solidly entrenched in businesses, but actions and research data show mixed results.
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The Last 1000' Challenge
Remember the old days, when the 'last mile' was a huge challenge for customer fulfillment? Now it's the 'last 1000 feet'.
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What's Affecting Our Sleep
Recent research of supply chain organizations by APICS provides some solid data on several themes we're following. If you're a manager and are sleeping soundly despite their findings, you must be doing a lot of things right!
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Supply Chain Star Wars
We just can't pass up a good Star Wars analogy. Will The Force be with you as you strive to become a demand-driven supply chain?
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Procurement Systems as Commodities
One overlooked benefit of utilizing cloud-based procurement systems is the flexibility they provide to make a quick change to a better provider. Improved functionality and lower costs can result.
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Omnichannel Drives Fulfillment Costs
As retailers struggle to meet the challenges of the omnichannel consumer that wants everything now, reality is setting in: this stuff is expensive to execute.
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Using the Principle of Aesthetics in Supply Chains
In the 4th article in his series on supply chain design, Jonathan Lofton reviews the principle of aesthetics relative to the design process. In short, he feels this aesthetics='not cutting corners'.
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Unleashing Digital Supply Chains
Digital supply chain technologies have been with us for awhile, but they've generally been used as point solutions.
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