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NOT Your Dad’s Supply Chain: 4 Trends Every Retail Exec Should Know for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

In 2024, it won’t be your dad’s supply chain. These four emerging trends elevate the urgency for supply chain execs to move distributed order management (DOM) to the top of their lists. #1: Retailers need additional tools to fully integrate these stores’ back-of-house (BOH) operations into the rest of their supply chain.

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Tips for shipping success during the 2021 holiday season

Omnisend

The 2021 holiday season is already different from holiday seasons of the past, starting with manufacturing and trickling down to shipping. As a result, your shipping strategy for the holiday season needs to be more dynamic and responsive to the shifting demands of holiday shoppers. Buy supplies now. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

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Improving Supply-Chain Sustainability For A Circular Economy: Three Positive Steps for Retail

Retail TouchPoints

To be factored into a purchasing decision, the details must be shared throughout the supply chain in a standardized, shareable format and language, so that buyers can compare apples to apples and make their decisions with confidence. If every single order gets shipped in an individual box, inefficiencies abound. Order Consolidation.

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Hugo Boss to Roll Out RFID Solution Chainwide

Retail TouchPoints

Seeking to improve merchandise availability and supply chain visibility, Hugo Boss will deploy the Nedap iD Cloud platform chainwide. The premium apparel retailer operates in 128 countries at approximately 6,800 points of sale as well as online in 59 countries.

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Kroger Doubles Ship Assortment Via 3rd-Party Marketplace

Retail TouchPoints

For Kroger , the expansion of its Ship e-Commerce assortment through a third-party marketplace is the latest example. Starting this fall, more than 50,000 additional items will be available to Ship customers across multiple categories including natural and organic, international food, specialty items, housewares and toys.

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How Retailers can Combat Inventory Shrinkage with Drone-Powered Warehouse Monitoring

Retail TouchPoints

The discrepancy may occur due to clerical errors, goods being damaged or lost, or theft from the point of purchase from a supplier to the point of sale.” Department of Commerce data shows ecommerce sales have been growing steadily for over a decade, with significant growth in the past three years.

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1/3 Of US Retailers Are 8 weeks Away From Going Bust Due To Supply Chain Issues

RetailMinded

Supply chain issues have hit 80% of US merchants in the last year, according to a new Brightpearl survey. Almost half of shops and ecommerce brands (52%) have experienced stockouts, resulting in a loss of sales. The survey found that shortage of goods was the biggest supply problem – experienced by 67% of respondents.

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