How Supply Chain Visibility Helps You Navigate Complexity
More companies are realizing the critical importance of increasing their supply chain visibility in order to meet increasingly heightened customer demands.
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Supply Chain Capacity Issues Fueling Cost Increases, Report Finds
A new report found that delivery and warehouse capacity issues continue to impact supply chain costs, with retail being one of the hardest hit sectors.
UPS to Address Supply Chain Agility for Omnichannel Success at Operations Summit
The increasing complexity of today’s supply chain – brought on, in large part, by the surge in omnichannel retailing – will be a key theme and topic addressed at Multichannel Merchant’s 4th Annual Operations Summit, held April 14-16 in Louisville, KY.
Omnichannel Demand Drives Accellos/HighJump Merger
Accellos and HighJump Software merged this week, driven by omnichannel demand.
Untangling the Retail Supply Chain with Real-Time Analytics
Retail supply chains are longer and more tangled than ever – the complexity of the data coupled with high customer expectations around service and reliability are taxing traditional approaches to supply chain management to their limits. In this article you will learn how to pinpoint problems faster, make adjustments quickly, prevent missed deliveries, and catch those out-of-stock situations before they can impact the customer.
Microsoft Extends Leadership in End-to-End Customer Interactions and Omnichannel Operations
Microsoft Dynamics introduces advanced end-to-end capabilities for omni-channel retailing and supply-chain management; announces alliances with industry leaders Vantiv, Sitecore and an expanded relationship with IBM.
Supply Chain Execs from Across the Globe Plan a Customer-Centric Focus
While merchants have been putting forth most of their efforts into creating a customer-centric approach in the contact center and the warehouse, the top initiative by executives moving forward is to also create a customer-centric supply chain.
Do You Have Real-Time Insight into These 3 Critical Areas?
Trend reports can’t tell individual retailers how much seasonal staff to hire, how to schedule a promotional calendar, how much server capacity to have available, or if a brick-and-mortar location is overstaffed and underperforming. Retailers need real-time data to make the most of shoppers’ favorite time of year. Here are three areas on which to focus.
Evolving The Supply Chain in the Ecommerce Age
Amazon is a disruptive force that is upending both retailers and ecommerce companies. But its enormity is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Amazon’s competitive advantages.
Streamline the Supply Chain With Social Media
Social media has been used to improve various parts of the supply chain, according to an infographic by SupplyChainOpz. The infographic illustrates 10 actions in four different categories including supply chain, event management, relationship management, supply chain collaboration and information technology.