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Retailers' supply chains are in better shape for the holidays

Strategic Sourceror

Discount pricing, designed to incentivize customers to buy, has helped to take the sting out of inflation, which is also contributing to a more normalized supply chain. A looming work stoppage for rail workers could cause supply chain problems.

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Bad habits in retail supply chain planning

The Network Effect

” This is especially true in the world of retail supply chain planning. Spend hours creating manual orders/transfer requests with the future ship dates you want – and pray that things don’t change a lot in the meantime that will require you to change those dates/quantities as it gets closer to execution time.

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Ava Ex Machina and the Retail Supply Chain

Supply Chain Action Blog

This is especially relevant for retailers. Redesigned, retail supply chains, enabled with analytics and augmented reality, are not only meeting, but raising consumer expectations. Target is redesigning the way their DC’s work, creating a flow-through operation with smaller replenishment quantities.

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What is the Warehouse Role in Fulfilment?

Supply Chain Game Changer

In a well-managed warehouse, as a minimum, there are clear records of: · What is being (and has been) stored · Exact location of the goods within the warehouse · Date the goods arrive · Where the goods arrived from · How long the goods have been at the warehouse · Quantity of individual items stored. The equipment is fully utilised.

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Neat Little Bows—There’s a better way to manage your promotions

The Network Effect

Instead of trying to ”tag” orders and inventory, can’t we just manage these quantities and calculate a continuum of planned replenishments over time (some larger than others during promotional periods)? Retail Supply Chain Planning consumer-driven demand-driven forecasting retail'

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Part 3 – A New Supply Chain Planning Paradigm for the Digital Value Network?

Supply Chain Action Blog

This is especially relevant for retailers, and it presents both a challenge and an opportunity for competing with your digital value network in the global digital economy. For example, redesigned, retail supply chains, enabled with analytics and augmented reality ( AR ), are not only meeting, but raising consumer expectations.

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Part 3 – A New Supply Chain Planning Paradigm for the Digital Value Network?

Supply Chain Action Blog

This is especially relevant for retailers, and it presents both a challenge and an opportunity for competing with your digital value network in the global digital economy. For example, redesigned, retail supply chains, enabled with analytics and augmented reality ( AR ), are not only meeting, but raising consumer expectations.