For Retailers, Secondhand Clothes Are a Threat – and An Opportunity
Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: Secondhand clothing stores create a challenge for off-price retailers; Albertsons plans to roll out Plated meal kits at many…
Supply Chain Digitalization Is Top of Mind for Many Manufacturers – Are You One of Them?
The world is changing constantly and quickly. Digital technologies and their related information flows continue to disrupt industries – creating new opportunities for customer service, revenue streams, efficiencies, and competitive advantage. Those that once viewed Amazon’s wild success as primarily a retail concern have now…
Amazon Launches Free, 2-hour Whole Foods Deliveries in 4 U.S. Cities
Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: Amazon brings select cities free 2-hour Prime deliveries from Whole Foods; Elon Musk expects a Tesla to drive coast-to-coast in…
A Look into the Future: Top Tech Trend Predictions
Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: top 10 tech trends to watch in 2018, details about the Dr Pepper Snapple and Keurig merger, the impact…
Far From Dying, Retail Supports 1 in 4 Jobs in the U.S.
Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: The death of retail jobs has been greatly exaggerated; new IoT sensors are making in-store fulfillment more efficient; U.S. manufacturing…
Building a Home or Planning a Vacation: Think about S&OP and S&OE
I recently had the opportunity to contribute an article, S&OP Vacation, to the Winter 2017 edition of Supply Chain World magazine1 about the sales and operations planning process. In working with many customers over the years, I’ve discovered that the term means different things to…
Manufacturing Has a New Look – Focused on the Consumer!
For manufacturers, the age of “we’ll build it, and customers will just have to buy what we make” is long over. The consumer is driving the supply chain, both in retail and manufacturing, and it’s not always about leading the pack to be successful. Many retailers are…
JDA TV – Forecasting and Servicing Customers Profitably: Moving from an Inside-Out to an Outside-In Approach
In this episode of JDA TV, Doug Kimball, Senior Product Marketing Director at JDA, and Amitabh Kumar, Senior Global Value Delivery Director at JDA, discuss how manufacturers can adapt their processes to deal with forecasting challenges and meet the ever-changing needs of their customers.. …
Inside the Voice of the Category Manager Survey Results: Solving the Compliance Conundrum
Today’s modern shopper has sky-high expectations when it comes to customer service and product availability, leaving retailers and manufacturers with little room for error. Getting merchandise assortments right the first time is crucial to ensuring shopper satisfaction, as well as profitability. Yet nearly 70 percent…
Lessons Learned from the Beer Game
At Blue Yonder, one of the vehicles we’ve been using to demonstrate the benefits of effective supply planning and collaboration across the supply chain is the Collaborative Flow Planning workshop — AKA, The Beer Game. Most supply chain professionals have played the beer game at some…