Recession Proofing Your Retail Business
This blog was co-written by Wayne Snyder, VP, Retail Industry Strategy, and Nina Seth, Product Marketing Director. It’s a tough world out there. Inflation, rising interest rates, layoffs, high labor and transportation costs and much more. There is so much doom and gloom in the…
Managing Excess Inventory Needs a New Profitable Approach
Recent reports have highlighted the challenges many retailers are having with excess inventory. With supply chain disruptions continuing, purchasing more stock in advance to meet the forecasted upturn in demand made perfect sense. However, the boost in sales was short-lived as inflation and political instability…
Supply Chain Transformations Must Prepare for No New Normal
“We’re entering ‘the new normal.’” No doubt, we’ve all heard or read that sentence somewhere. It’s an understandable soundbite that depicts the trying times experienced over the past three years, made up of both political and economic trajectories, as well as unforeseen “black swan” events….
5 Schritte zum Aufbau eines profitablen Same-Day-Fulfillments
Prognosen zufolge wird sich der Markt für taggleiche Lieferungen in den nächsten drei Jahren verdoppeln. .Und laut dem Bringg-Barometer 2022: State of Retail Delivery & Fulfillment möchten 99 % diesen Service innerhalb von drei Jahren anbieten. Während die Kundennachfrage nach schnellen Lieferungen ständig zunimmt, wie…
Santa’s Supply Chain: Holiday Logistics in 2020
This blog is co-authored by Wayne Snyder, VP, Retail Industry Strategy EMEA, and Alan Duncan, Senior Director of Industry Strategy, EMEA. “T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by…
Retailers Are Changing Stores into Micro-fulfillment Centers with Robots
Reuters recently hosted a panel on the topic of optimizing omni-channel fulfillment to prepare for holiday peaks. Panelists included Jason Lerman, Director Operations at UNTUCKit; Jon Gold, VP of Supply Chain and Customs Policy at NRF; Wayne Snyder, VP Retail Industry Strategy at Blue Yonder; Gina Anderson, VP…
Digital Supply Chains: Now or Never for Retailers
Things have never stood still in the retail world. With lines blurring between physical and digital worlds, and ever-changing consumer demands, retailers find themselves continuously evolving to keep pace with competitors. Today, more than ever, retailers need to be agile, responsive and resilient. The COVID-19…