Switching to SaaS-Based Planning Solutions Yields a 524% Return on Investment for Blue Yonder Customers
Today’s supply chains are facing a new era of uncertainty with global disruption, channel complexity, trade concerns, and supply chain skill shortages. To help ensure that your company’s products and supplies are getting to the people who need them, today’s supply chain solutions must be…
Press Start to Make Your Supply Chain Smarter
In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, visibility equals agility and the business that moves the fastest wins the game. What’s required is a clear view of what the business needs to plan for and then execute: control towers. As with any technology investment, control towers should…
The Future of Planning [Video]
In this video, Vikram Balasubramamian talks about the future of planning. A new world where in order to exceed increasing customer expectations, supply chain solutions must be more intelligent, predictive and capable of delivering to your customers when, how and where they want it. Like…
Finding the Value in Your Control Tower
Talking with supply chain leaders across the industry, it’s clear that supply chain control towers are being tasked with more and more functionality. It’s a natural evolution. After all, control towers collect and leverage large data sets from across the end-to-end supply chain. If data…
Unlock Next Generation Value in Supply Chain Management [Video]
If you’re looking to get to the next level of value add in your supply chain process, artificial intelligence (AI) is not enough. However, the next generation of expectations and customer service levels are achievable. Rachel Hinkes, a VP of product management for JDA, expands…
Tariffs and 5 Areas Retailers Need to Focus on Now
For decades, from hardware to electronics, textiles, food, household goods, and general merchandise; retailers have been offering lower prices on goods sourced overseas. Though there has been some change in recent years, most imported goods to the United States originate in China. China’s cost base,…
5 Quotes to Make You Think More About Price Optimization
As the market changes and competition grows, one area is becoming more of a focus for retailers than ever before, and that’s price optimization. How do we think about price optimization and what makes it so important? Read on for five quotes from three pricing…
These 3 Retailers Are Competing with Amazon and Now You Can Too
This winter CVS is piloting a new program in Boston with free delivery and a membership fee, sounds familiar, right? Almost Prime-like? That’s because it is. For $48 a year or an easy $5 a month, CarePass includes free delivery on all CVS purchases, convenient…
4 Things We Learned this Hurricane Season About How Companies Use Tech to Help Communities
Hurricane season has rolled through and there’s just a few weeks left. This year’s season included two major storms and eight hurricanes total. So, what can we learn as businesses and bystanders in the aftermath? Here are four ways companies prepare for impact to support…
How Sears Changed America and 3 Things Retailers Must Learn from the News Last Week
Since Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week, the internet is exploding with dozens of posts about how the retailer has changed America, the way we live and how we shop. Among them, tweets from Louis Hyman, an associate professor of history at Cornell…