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Challenges for Retail in the Age of the Omnichannel

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Make Supply Chain Strategy Part of Your Corporate Brand Strategy

Analyst Insight: Consumer perceptions of a company's supply chain have a big impact on how consumers feel about a company and its corporate brand. Research provides insight into how supply chain reputation impacts the overall corporate reputation and how supply chain strategies can be used to boost consumer perceptions of corporate brands. - Viktoria Sadlovska, Research Director, Reputation Institute

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New Methods for Preventing Cargo Theft

Law enforcement is hot on the trail of cargo thieves. But the thieves are hot on the trail of your shipments.

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Transforming Supply Chain Operations for the Digital Future

Analyst Insight: The next defining opportunity for supply chain is in digital operations. The scope of digital operations is enormous, and it presents amazing opportunities. But failure - either from moving too fast or too slow - may lead to redundancy or, in extreme cases, extinction. Companies must clearly understand where they are today to drive change successfully and must move with purpose. If they cannot, they will be history. - Peter Anderson, Principal, Advisory, Ernst & Young LLP, & Chekyiu Ng, Senior Manager, Advisory, Ernst & Young LLP

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Internal Silos Trip Up Successful Omnichannel Initiatives, Report Finds

Retail CEOs say internal silos are holding back omnichannel success. In fact, retailers without these operational barriers are more positive about achieving profitability, according to a new report.

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Majority Use Mobile to Compare Competitors' Prices While In Store

Mobile is driving the shopping experience both in stores and online. Roughly 73 percent of all online buyers are using a mobile device to shop online, and 21 percent are using mobile devices to help them shop in stores, according to Bizrate Insights, a division of Connexity.

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How Retailers Can Meet the Challenge of Amazon

The outsourcing of logistics is supposed to save businesses big money. They pay only for the services they need; they turn over complex operations to a pro, and they get expensive assets off their books. It all makes eminent sense - unless your name is Amazon.com Inc.

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Mid-Sized Industrial U.S. Manufacturers Confident About 2016

Optimism among mid-sized manufacturing companies in the U.S. outpaces their enthusiasm for the economy as a whole, according to the 8th Annual CFO Survey from Prime Advantage.

IBM's Watson Knows What You're Going to Buy

Winning $1m on Jeopardy! wasn't good enough for IBM's Watson. Now it wants to predict your buying behavior.

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Fifth of Large Food Manufacturers Surveyed Know Little or Nothing About Their Suppliers

Food manufacturers across the globe have admitted failing to put in place basic safeguards to protect vulnerable workers in their supply chains - almost one year on from laws to stop slavery, child labor and unethical working practices.

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Long-Term Transportation Management Partnership Saves Client Millions

Challenge: Wide transportation footprint; Different ERP systems across multiple platforms; Gaps in existing transportation network; Maintain core competency of steel-making/processing; Maintain quality/safety culture; Consolidating transportation metric source data

Most Customers Will Bolt Retailers Who Can't Fulfill Online Needs, Study Sales

Digital services are now expected as standard by consumers, with retailers needing to adapt or risk their losing business altogether, according to a report from Kibo, a cloud-based omnichannel platform.

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