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Automation To Help Smooth Singles’ Day Peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Retailers now use the occasion of Singles’ Day as a platform to generate more sales, and like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it has become stretched out to last a week or more. Online transactions in greater China grew 237% during Singles’ Day 2023 sales compared to the same period in October, and were up 9% YoY.

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COVID Has Fundamentally Changed the Profession of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

In warehouses, for example, one solution is labor management. Labor management systems break the work down into very granular activities, set targets for doing those tasks in an allotted period of time, and measure how workers do against the time standards over the course of the day. Risk management had been a hard sale.

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Importance of Social Proof in Ecommerce

Ship Monk

And when we feel uncertain, humans tend to look for examples of what others in our situation have done. We’ll give you some examples of social proof, and we’ll even rank them in terms of trustworthiness. Of course, sometimes following the herd can lead us astray. But faked before/after photos are the bane of social media.

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Omnichannel Retailers Leverage Optimization for Order-Promising

Logistics Viewpoints

A customer can of course buy goods in a store. For an online order that needs to be delivered within 24 hours, for example, the rule might state that the goods should be shipped to the consumer from the closest location. They can also order online and have goods shipped to their home. Rules were used to make these decisions.

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Time to look after your assets

Logistics Business Magazine

At a time when companies are focused on keeping business costs to a minimum, a strict materials handling equipment maintenance and servicing regime is more important than ever, says Toyota Material Handling UK Ltd ’s Service Sales Manager, Andy Pritchard. Across the UK we employ some 600 technicians.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? More to the point, though, for S&OP to be effective, it matters not whether a company uses Excel spreadsheets or the latest best-of-breed sales and operations planning software.

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Disruptive Tech In The Supply Chain with Charley Dehoney

The Logistics of Logistics

Following his studies at San Jose State University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Charley naturally started his career in 2003 in the field of supply chain and logistic technologies, working in the sales teams of companies such as Fusion Logistics, Cargomatic and ShipHawk. ?