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Being Adaptive Drives Resiliency and Margins in Collaborative Supply Chain Networks (CSCN)

Logistics Viewpoints

By embracing collaboration, real-time data, and a focus on sustainability, companies can build resilience, improve margins, and gain a competitive edge. They design their supply chain on a continuous basis and focus on ecommerce retailing strategies that segment their customer base according to buying behavior. Nari Viswanathan is Sr.

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Finding Your Ecommerce Brand Niche

Ship Monk

You decide to launch an ecommerce store to sell this idea because it’s the greatest idea ever and can’t possibly fail. Part of the process is doing your homework and identifying your ecommerce niche. What is an ecommerce niche? What is an Ecommerce Niche? Let’s assume you’re an entrepreneur with a great idea.

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Supply Chain Design Crosses the Chasm

Logistics Viewpoints

The rapid shifts to eCommerce during the pandemic caused retailers and brand owners alike to flex their network nodes (where goods are made and inventories are stocked) significantly. Design can help test such ideas before implementing changes to the master data. They are designing career paths to retain and grow such talent.

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Changing Consumer Trends on Online Shopping in a Post-COVID World

MTS Logistics

Such services include Matson’s CLX, APL’s EXX and ZIM’s eCommerce Xpress. According to data released by Adobe Analytics, consumers spent $82.5 Sporting goods, exercise equipment, hardware and office supplies have seen the largest gains (except essentials like groceries, cleaning supplies, etc.).

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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

As market and buying trend data becomes more abundant and IT systems more connected, retailers can better estimate demand and adapt their ordering. Increasingly, ecommerce vendors understand the advantage of an easy-to-print, free-of-charge return shipping label for a customer to stick on a box and return by post.

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The Counter to Constant Supply Chain Volatility Is Pervasive Visibility and Industry Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

Until we have this kind of pervasive visibility, inventory management will continue to be largely an exercise in futility. And what is sitting in the warehouse. And at the cross-dock. And in the rail car. Real-time visibility into “static goods” — wherever they may be — is the foundation for managing through volatility.

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Key Factors to Consider When Planning and Designing Warehouses

Logistics Bureau

As more and more companies—especially those engaged in ecommerce—are discovering, it can often be better to manage reverse logistics as a discrete process than to try to integrate returns handling with the normal forward flow. High availability of accurate throughput data will be of great aid to the outcome of the design or layout exercise.