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Are Brick-and-Mortar Stores Just Showrooms for Online Retail Sales? Not Really

The myth of showrooming - the suggestion that tons of shoppers are flooding stores to only use them as a physical showroom as they had always intended to purchase the product at Amazon - lives on. But a survey conducted in late April by Bizrate Insights is helping to add a little clarity. First, showrooming really doesn't happen very often. But more interestingly, when it does, it's more likely to be within the same chain. That's a problem all right, but the name of that problem isn't showrooming. It's internal politics.

Brewing Up Supply Chain Success

Challenge: This rapidly growing domestic brewing company lacked a centralized planning process across all of its breweries further hampered by disjointed supply chain functions. The company was unable to accurately forecast across its 180 products for the 575 wholesalers across its global footprint.

Innovation Efforts Falling Short Despite Increased Investment, Study Finds

Despite increased business investment in innovation, only 18 percent of executives believe their company's innovation efforts deliver a competitive advantage, according to an Accenture study that also revealed a risk-averse approach to product and service development.

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International cosmetics brand streamlines Brazilian distribution with Penske Logistics

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of premium cosmetics and beauty products sought a new logistics model to meet its rapidly growing customer base in Brazil while reducing its carbon footprint.

Penske Logistics helps deliver freshness to growing convenience store chain

Challenge: A leading retail convenience store chain desired major improvements in replenishing its stores with fresh food items. The solution needed to facilitate daily collection, staging and delivery of fresh-baked goods and refrigerated foods by truck to every store across a wide geographic area.

War on Waste and Packaging to Target Supermarkets, Retail

There are few issues guaranteed to make environmentalists' blood boil quite like packaging and food waste. From single bananas in plastic wrapping to giant bags of produce that spoil within days, packaging and food waste remain one of the most visible symbols of resource inefficiency and a source of deep frustration for green campaigners and mainstream shoppers alike.

Resilinc Teams With ICOR to Create Supply-Chain Resiliency Course

Resilinc Corp. has joined with the International Consortium for Organization Resilience (ICOR) to create a management course on supply-chain resiliency.

How Rising Fuel Costs Are Transforming Distribution Strategies

Rob Nemeth, president of Allied Distribution, shows exactly how rising fuel costs are affecting the movement of goods throughout the distribution chain - and how companies are responding to the trend.

What's the Best Definition of Supply Chain Innovation?

For many companies supply chain innovation (SCI) is a key source of competitive advantage. Yet there is no clear, commonly accepted definition of the concept; one company's SCI is another company's process improvement.

WaveMark Introduces SalesView for Medical Device Management

WaveMark, active in "Real-Time Healthcare Supply Chain Innovation", has introduced the latest release of its RFID- and barcode-enabled mobility application, SalesView, for medical device suppliers.

Testing is Key to Traceability within Packaging Supply Chain

The food supply chain has been a hot topic recently, with the horsemeat scandal creating a whirlwind of interest in an area which before had ticked along without very much attention at all.

GT Nexus Wraps Up Merger with TradeCard

GT Nexus has completed its merger with TradeCard. The combined company, with headquarters in Oakland, Calif., is operating under the GT Nexus name.

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