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Blume Global Talks Supply Chain Trends, Digital Twins, and Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

Second, what market trends are emerging? Market Trends. Right now, the mega trend is that the focus is on inbound supply chains rather than outbound. The digital supply chain is a trend that is here to stay, and most companies are not fully digital. I asked Pervinder to give his insights on a few key points.

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Retail Trends: The Growing Demand for Click and Collect

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This post looks at how click & collect works, why demand for it is trending now, and what retailers can do to ensure click & collect experiences that are also good for their business. While interest in click & collect is not new, 2020 saw a massive spike in demand and turned it into one of the hottest retail trends.

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Do You Want Visibility or Transparency?

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One example is an alert that a truck will be late based on a GPS feed. Four Kites and Descartes are examples of software companies whose solution provides this type of alert. EDI messages that a shipment will be late, for example, not uncommonly arrive after the shipment has already arrived.

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3 Supply Chain Trends to Keep on Your 2019 Radar

Logistics Bureau

3 Supply Chain Trends to Track in 2019. However, this year hasn’t quite closed out yet (at the time of writing), so in the true spirit of just-in-time delivery, here’s a quick appraisal of three current trends that I believe will come on stronger, and perhaps become some of the most important to supply chain operators in 2019.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

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American Supply Chain Resilience Act and the German Supply Chain Act are just two examples of this. All in all, several of the trends that have been at play will be accelerated during 2022 and beyond. Having such options allow them to get to the market faster, turning adversities into advantages.

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Active Supply Chain Design: A Key Imperative for De Risking Supply Chains

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The bullwhip effect is one example of this disruptive effect, when small changes in demand cause huge demand spikes downstream. Globalization, nearshoring and friendshoring trends are amplifying the supply chain risks. Table 1 describes a few examples of these types of risks. These risks are low probability and high impact.

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

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Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Sometimes hilarious examples of its “hallucinations” illustrate its failure to understand ( My Dinners with GPT-4 by Justin Smith-Ruiu is one of my favorites).