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What Peak Season 2024 Taught Us About the New Rules of Holiday Shipping

The holiday season now rewards precision over speed. The brands that plan early, communicate clearly, and set prices honestly will win loyalty long after the presents are opened.

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Supply Chain Innovation 2025: On the Rocky Road to Resilience

Beyond hunkering down in firefighting mode, it’s just as important that companies take a longer view of things.

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Amazon Reports Results Better than Expected

The results were buoyed by the enduring strength of consumer spending online, despite tariffs and an uneven economy, and by a resurgence in cloud computing.

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Why the Old Rules of Peak-Season Retailing No Longer Apply

The very notion of a big selling period that’s treated as a once-a-year phenomenon is out of date, says Greg Dyer, chief commercial officer of Randstad USA.

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Target to Eliminate 1,800 Roles, 8% of Headquarters Team

Leader roles were affected at a higher rate than individual workers, a company spokesman said, and no roles in stores or the supply chain were impacted.

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P&G Slashes Tariff Impact by 50% as Earnings Beat Estimates

The results reflect consumers’ resilience and suggest that P&G’s strategy of charging a premium for its goods, while marketing them as superior to the competition, is paying off.

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Podcast | Economic Warning Signs: Debt, the Dollar and AI

The U.S. economy appears to be in decent shape – but there could be some dark clouds massing on the horizon.

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Understanding and Overcoming Uncertainty in U.S.-China Trade

Companies seeking to navigate uncertainties arising from the U.S-China trade relationship can take a proactive posture to enhance the competitiveness of domestic production.

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How SMEs Can Overcome the Volume Disadvantage in Logistics

While large corporations negotiate directly with carriers using guaranteed monthly volumes, smaller businesses operate in a spot market designed to extract maximum margins from fragmented demand.

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GS1 Is Killing Barcodes and Unlocking Far Smarter Supply Chains

Retailer support for 2D barcodes, such as QR codes, is improving, but not yet universal. Logistics leaders need to act before 2027.

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Kearney Index Calls ‘Reality Check’ on Reshoring Trend

American manufacturers rushing to bring production back home from Asia? Time for a reality check, according to the latest Reshoring Index from Kearney.

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Delivering Total Value in a Values-Driven Economy

Total value reflects the full spectrum of what today’s shoppers of fast-moving consumer goods care about when making their purchasing decisions.

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