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Before Pursuing Micro Fulfillment, Consider These Four Things

Micro-fulfillment centers offer benefits like faster delivery and lower transit costs, but they won’t lead to greater profitability without a holistic network strategy.

Five Smart Ways to Ride the Surge of E-Commerce Returns

Forward-thinking companies go beyond treating returns as a necessary evil and embrace them as a critical element of competitive advantage and brand promise.

Three Ways Visual AI Can Optimize Retail Supply Chains

Visual AI tools such as visual search have unlocked a host of sales-related advantages for e-commerce — and offer a wealth of data that can boost operational efficiencies.

Source: Bloomberg

Why So Many Supply Chains Are Stuck in the Past — and a Path Forward

Supply chains have for many years tolerated a lack of accountability at nearly every node — from buyer-supplier relationships to outdated tools and data transparency issues — which has prevented businesses from operating cost- and time-efficiently and delivering on their promises.

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Five Ways Digital-Twin Technology Is Helping Businesses Through the Pandemic

Here's how some manufacturers are using digital twins to keep complex supply-chain operations running as efficiently as possible.

Watch: How the Pandemic Is Impacting Manufacturing Strategies

John Caltabiano, vice president of supply chain with manufacturing services provider Jabil Inc., discusses the results of a recent survey of supply-chain professionals about how they’re weathering the coronavirus pandemic.

How the Pandemic Is Impacting Manufacturing Strategies

Modernizing the Supply Chain for Improved Customer Experience

OEMs won’t experience the full benefits of Industry 4.0, including hyper-efficient inventory management, lower warehousing costs and better customer experience, unless they fully optimize their supply chains.

U.K. Businesses Plead for Time to Avoid Brexit Cliff Edge

As trade talks have come down to the wire, companies have to try to adapt for life beyond Dec. 31 without knowing the fundamental rules of engagement.

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Podcast | What It Takes to Make Direct-to-Consumer Fulfillment Work

Retailers selling over the internet can’t hope to compete without a reliable and effective direct-to-consumer (DTC) model for fulfillment. But setting one up is anything but easy.

Source: Bloomberg

Can a Dual-Use Strategy Save the Struggling Shopping Mall?

Lou Conforti sees no reason why a shopping mall can’t contain both traditional brick-and-mortar stores and last-mile fulfillment operations for online purchases.

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Watch: Is Amazon Facing ‘Shipaggeddon’ This Holiday Season?

Will Amazon’s supply chain break down during peak season?

Is Amazon Facing ‘Shipaggeddon’ This Holiday Season?

Multi-Shipper Management Tools Help Retail Fulfillment Solution Providers Meet Their Clients' Complex Parcel Shipping Needs

In the face of rising B2C costs, volumes and capacity constraints, shippers have to re-engineer their fulfillment processes to accommodate last-mile parcel delivery.

Pierbridge Multi Shopper Management Tool

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