Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

trillion in 2016. One of Forrester’s 2016 surveys shows that 41% of customers expect a response via email within a 6-hour time frame. The growing size of today’s consumer market sets the stage for entrepreneurs and companies of varying capacities to take part. The US consumer market alone was at $1.5

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This is increasingly important when you consider that in 2016 E-Commerce in the U.S. Retail sales of $4.8 According to Big Commerce, Inc. as many as 66% of consumers have decided not to buy something due to shipping costs alone. totalled $394 billion in sales (as compared to total U.S.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Other megabrands such as L’Oreal, which in the past has been almost fully dependent on retailers to stock and sell their products, announced that their ecommerce sales rose by 33% year on year in 2016 and now account for 17.6% of their sales.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But, without the initial farming/production of the banana, the rest of the supply chain would be redundant. The majority of banana export comes from 3 countries, which top the list for 2016: Ecuador, Guatemala and Costa Rica. Two other countries that produce a notable amount of bananas are Brazil and India.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

It “requires suppliers to act lawfully, and if the laws are inadequate to act responsibly towards people and the environment” (Carlsson, 2016, p. ikea.com 2016). As stated, IWAY is Ikea’s Supplier CoC. What is in the best interest of the Worker? What is in the best interest of the environment?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Retail e-commerce sales in the United States are projected to grow at a fast pace in the coming years, going from 322.17 dollars in 2016 to just over 485 billion US dollars in 2021. Admittedly, the e-commerce industry is booming. billion U.S. Why You Need Order Fulfillment Services.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q4 of 2016, in particular, created less than ideal press for the company when a British jury found Amazon UK guilty of shipping hazardous materials by air without proper labeling or packaging. Amazon has dozens of warehouses all over the country, and more around the world, so your products may be in your customers’ hands quickly.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

One insight that won’t surprise anyone is that Amazon is gobbling up the brick and mortar retail space unabated, with sales figures rising from $16 billion in North America in 2010 to $80 billion in 2016. The Atlantic piece charts some other major underlying economic factors behind the Retail upheaval.

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