Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 20, 2021

In 2015, I bought a Canadian distribution company focused on the toy/gift retail space. Tell our readers a little about your background and experience. I have been in the full-time workforce for over 30 yrs, mainly employed in the Marketing/advertising/brand management space for fortune 500 companies.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The goal was to break a trend of rising purchasing prices and instead reduce total costs by using the entike Ikea volume as leverage” (Carlsson, 2015 p.6). More often than not, involved parties accepted the recommendations as fair” (Carlsson 2015, p. Building Shared Value.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The goal was to break a trend of rising purchasing prices and instead reduce total costs by using the entike Ikea volume as leverage” (Carlsson, 2015 p.6). More often than not, involved parties accepted the recommendations as fair” (Carlsson 2015, p. Building Shared Value.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 21, 2019

In fact, click and collect sales are showing impressive year-on-year increases; growing 155% as a percentage of total online sales for multichannel retailers between the years 2011 and 2015. In the UK, the click and collect model is particularly popular with experts predicting that usage will double by 2025.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 18, 2019

With the start of 2015, UPS and FedEx instituted a dimensional (DIM) weight pricing structure. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) figures show a large jump in the volume of freight shipped between 2012 and 2015. Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Jake Rheude at [link].

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In 2015, Amazon shipped over 51 million items on that day alone. Their smart warehouse in Guangdong houses the largest army of “automated guided vehicles” in China. These amazing robots are able to haul packages weighing up to 500 kilograms! million sq. fulfillment center is at its peak during Cyber Monday. That’s 629 items per second!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Atlantic offered some really telling statistics about some of these shifts: Much of Brick and Mortar’s decline can be traced to excess retail space in malls. population – which, itself, grew fairly quickly – between 1970 and 2015. Restaurants have grown twice as fast as other retail spending.

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