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Implications of Omnichannel to the CPG Supply Chain

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Justifying the Expense of Faster Fulfillment

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Enterprise Social Collaboration Fuels Innovative S&OP

As the sales and operations planning (S&OP) leader, there are a few principal responsibilities: setting priorities, planning and executing your supply chain strategies, driving incremental improvements while quickly adapting to changing market and customer requirements, and linking changes in demand to changes in supply while keeping in mind the financial results. But that's just within the average day-to-day activity – it is also expected that advance changes in thinking and execution will be developed to help solve S&OP limitations.

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Industry 4.0: The Future of Productivity, Growth in Manufacturing

Technological advances have driven dramatic increases in industrial productivity since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The steam engine powered factories in the 19th Century, electrification led to mass production in the early part of the 20th Century, and industry became automated in the 1970s. In the decades that followed, however, industrial technological advancements were only incremental, especially compared with the breakthroughs that transformed IT, mobile communications, and e-commerce.

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U.S. Re-takes Lead Over China as Online Sales Grow Worldwide

Global online sales increased 20 percent last year, and the United States took the international lead over China.

As E-commerce Sales Boom, Companies Need to Have Digital Strategies

In a report projecting $780bn in United States B2B e-commerce sales this year and $1.132tr by 2020, Forrester Research encourages companies to get to work now on a digital strategy for dealing with customers.

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How To Avoid Mistakes When Using Data To Target Specific Retail Customers

The IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark showed us that consumers are flocking to their computers and mobile devices to buy, browse and research. This all sounds great but, here is the challenge - at the same time their attention spans are at an all-time low. So, what does this mean for marketers and retailers?

Vast Majority of U.S. Imports Not Inspected for Consumer Safety

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates 10,000 products ranging from apparel to household appliances, inspects less than 1 percent of imports under its jurisdiction. With the odds stacked against being detected, cost-cutting foreign manufacturers continue to supply dangerous goods to U.S. retailers.

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How Would You Like to Have 120 Days to Pay Your Creditors?

Adopting a tactic widely used by 3G Capital, the Brazilian private investment group behind the recent merger of Heinz and Kraft Foods, a growing number of the world's largest food and packaged goods companies are asking their suppliers to give them as much as four months to pay their bills - even though they typically require payment from their own customers in 30 days.

Infocast's Highly Anticipated Omni-Channel Fulfillment & Logistics Summit Returns this June

The "go-to place" for Retailers to Hear about Potential Solutions to Omni-Channel Challenges

Closure of Amazon's Webstore Would Affect Many Small, Mid-Sized Businesses and Manufacturers

Several reports have confirmed that Amazon will shutter its Webstore service by July 2016. Amazon has notified its online retailers that are using the ecommerce platform on their own sites of the shutdown, according to SmartBusinessTrends.com.

As Politicians Craft Social-Issue Legislation, Corporate Pressure Can Pose Hurdle

Corporate America usually hasn't viewed hot-button social issues as any of its business. Then came Indiana. The controversy over the state's religious rights measure signed into law recently has been striking for the parade of well-known businesses that not only joined in the opposition to the law but took the lead in voicing their disapproval.

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