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Digital Transformation and Digital Supply Chains with Dave Allen

How Digitalization Holds the Key to Retail and Consumer Goods Success

April 28, 2018 Editor Big Data, Consumer Goods, Digital Supply Chain, Leadership and Strategy, Retail, Supply Chain Management, Technology, The Network Effect One comment

Dave Allen, a supply chain thought leader with a history of transforming supply chains at major consumer goods companies, share

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Threats to Retailers - and how retailers can survive and thrive

The Triple Threat to Retail

February 12, 2018 Editor Retail Comments Off on The Triple Threat to Retail

Three recommendations for retreating retailers Total Retail just published The Triple Threat to Retail, highlighting some of the pressures facing

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Restaurant Supply Chain and Customer Service Excellence

Why the Key to Customer Loyalty May Be Lurking in Your Supply Chain

October 17, 2017 Editor Customer Centricity, Retail, Supply Chain Management Comments Off on Why the Key to Customer Loyalty May Be Lurking in Your Supply Chain

Many companies profess customer-centricity, few achieve it, yet with by tuning the supply chain it is within reach It has

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What Grocers Can Do to Respond to Amazon

What Are Grocers Doing to Attract Shoppers?

August 23, 2017 Nigel Duckworth Grocery, Retail Comments Off on What Are Grocers Doing to Attract Shoppers?

With the news that Whole Foods stockholders have okayed the Amazon deal, the pressure on  Grocers ratchets up as they

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Video: Digitizing the Retail Supply Chain

Video: How to Digitize the Retail Supply Chain

August 11, 2017 Editor Digital Supply Chain, Retail Comments Off on Video: How to Digitize the Retail Supply Chain

Retailers today are in a poor position to compete against a vertically integrated and fully digitized online giants like Amazon.

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How Retail Grocers Can Compete with Amazon

Why Grocery Retailers Need to Embrace Digitization Now

August 11, 2017 Nigel Duckworth Grocery, Retail Comments Off on Why Grocery Retailers Need to Embrace Digitization Now

In InboundLogistics.com, Bernard Goor discusses the disruption about to hit grocery retailers, and how they can hold their market share

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Digital Transformation for Restaurants and Food Service

Video: Digital Transformation for Restaurants

August 7, 2017 Editor Digital Supply Chain, Foodservice, Multiparty Network, Retail, Supply Chain Management, The Network Effect Comments Off on Video: Digital Transformation for Restaurants

Restaurants have been under increasing pressure to meet changing consumer demand, lower costs, and minimize waste. Consumer-driven, digital business networks

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What Grocers Can Do to Respond to Amazon

Digital Supply Chain: The New Arena of the Grocery War

June 30, 2017 Nigel Duckworth Foodservice, Retail Comments Off on Digital Supply Chain: The New Arena of the Grocery War

Glenn Taylor at RetailTouchPoints has an interesting article that provides some insight into what the Amazon-Whole Foods deal means for

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amazon whole foods

Amazon is Disrupting the Grocery Business. Time for the Grocers to Disrupt Amazon back!

June 16, 2017 Bernard Goor Digital Supply Chain, Retail, Supply Chain Management, The Network Effect One comment

Grocery will never be the same again… The acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon today is a landmark event for

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Amazon Buys Whole Foods - Supply Chain Management Lessons from GMA

Top Ten Lessons Learned from the GMA Supply Chain Conference

May 5, 2017 Bernard Goor Customer Centricity, Foodservice, Retail, Supply Chain Management Comments Off on Top Ten Lessons Learned from the GMA Supply Chain Conference

Customer-centricity, collaboration, agility and other factors driving successful companies today The GMA Supply Chain Conference in San Diego offered fascinating

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Supply Chain Innovation

How a “Disruptor” is Using Supply Chain Innovation to Deliver Exceptional Customer Service

March 10, 2017 Nigel Duckworth Automated Future, Consumer Goods, Digital Supply Chain, Retail, Supply Chain Management, The Network Effect, Visibility Comments Off on How a “Disruptor” is Using Supply Chain Innovation to Deliver Exceptional Customer Service

One innovative company is taking on the big four wireless carriers and other players in the consumer wireless market. Its

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Real Time Supply Chain Management is critical to ensuring customer satisfaction and long term profitability.

The Importance of Real-time Information in Retail Supply Chain Management

November 18, 2016 Sarah Miller Retail, Supply Chain Management Comments Off on The Importance of Real-time Information in Retail Supply Chain Management

by Sarah Miller, Business Writer, AF Logistics Online businesses understand that timing can mean everything in the world of supply

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Customer-First Business

How Do You Become Customer Driven?

August 19, 2016 Editor Demand-Driven, Retail, The Network Effect Comments Off on How Do You Become Customer Driven?

Andy Harding, former Chief Customer Officer at House of Frazer talks to Retail Connections about how a company can put

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Amazon Prime Air - courtesy of Amazon.com

Amazon One: Amazon Takes to the Air

August 5, 2016 Editor Distribution, Retail, Transportation Comments Off on Amazon One: Amazon Takes to the Air

  Amazon unveiled its first branded cargo plane today, and will showcase its fleet of 20 branded 767-300 planes in

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Small Data Big Insights

Small Data, Big Insights

July 14, 2016 Demand Clarity Analytics, Big Data, Retail Comments Off on Small Data, Big Insights

Lowes Foods, a family-owned grocery chain with stores located throughout North and South Carolina, is one of the region’s largest

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1970s were great, but I don't want to relive the shopping experience today.

Is Retail Still Stuck in the Seventies?

May 14, 2016 Bruce Jacquemard Retail Comments Off on Is Retail Still Stuck in the Seventies?

The 1970s were great, but do you want to shop there today? Retail is getting hammered by online merchants such

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Supply Chain Network Design

The Future of Omnichannel Retail Supply Chain

May 6, 2016 Jim Tompkins Demand-Driven, Digital Supply Chain, Retail, Supply Chain Management Comments Off on The Future of Omnichannel Retail Supply Chain

Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International, discusses the importance of a consumer-driven supply chain in terms of the biggest threats and

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Global Supply Chain Challenges

Three New Challenges All Organizations Need to Meet

March 11, 2016 Jim Tompkins Demand-Driven, Retail, Supply Chain Management Comments Off on Three New Challenges All Organizations Need to Meet

The growth of eCommerce, the evolution of consumer expectations, and the globalization of eCommerce have resulted in many changes in

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Meeting the Challenge of Amazon

Retailers’ Advantage Over Amazon

February 28, 2016 Bruce Jacquemard Retail Comments Off on Retailers’ Advantage Over Amazon

Robert J. Bowman at Supply Chain Brain has an interesting article on how retailers can take on Amazon, by using

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The Titan Challenge

January 31, 2016 Jim Tompkins Demand-Driven, Retail, The Network Effect Comments Off on The Titan Challenge

We’ve discussed the Titans in terms of the individual categories of Omnichannel, Customer Centricity and Cross Border Commerce. Now it

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Supply chain technology can dramatically improve your customer satisfaction...

Preliminary Insights About 2015 Holiday Season: What Happened to the Retailers?

January 15, 2016 Editor Retail Comments Off on Preliminary Insights About 2015 Holiday Season: What Happened to the Retailers?

By Tompkins International Staff As the data on sales continues to be made public by retailers of all types and

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Supply chain technology can dramatically improve your customer satisfaction...

Why This Holiday Season is Creating Winners and Losers in the Transportation Industry

November 23, 2015 Greg Brady Logistics, Retail Comments Off on Why This Holiday Season is Creating Winners and Losers in the Transportation Industry

There is an excellent piece in today’s WSJ on how retailers’ changing inventory management strategies are affecting the fortunes of

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Skype co-founders are launching a robot that will deliver groceries for… £1

November 9, 2015 Greg Brady Retail, The Network Effect Comments Off on Skype co-founders are launching a robot that will deliver groceries for… £1

Yes that’s right.  Forget Amazon’s same-day delivery or even drones.  Skype’s co-founders,  Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, are building an autonomous, self-driving

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Integrated Business Planning/S&OP in a Shelf-Connected System

October 26, 2015 Bruce Jacquemard Retail, S&OP Comments Off on Integrated Business Planning/S&OP in a Shelf-Connected System

Note: This is the next installment in an ongoing series that explores shelf-connected supply networks. We’ve asked whether a shelf-connected system

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Bad habits in retail supply chain planning

October 9, 2015 Demand Clarity Retail, Supply Chain Planning, The Network Effect Comments Off on Bad habits in retail supply chain planning

Friedrich Nietsche said “Most bad habits are tools to help us through life.” This is especially true in the world

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