Dave Allen, a supply chain thought leader with a history of transforming supply chains at major consumer goods companies, share
Category: Retail
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
Amazon is Disrupting the Grocery Business. Time for the Grocers to Disrupt Amazon back!
Grocery will never be the same again… The acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon today is a landmark event for
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Retailers’ Advantage Over Amazon
Robert J. Bowman at Supply Chain Brain has an interesting article on how retailers can take on Amazon, by using
The Titan Challenge
We’ve discussed the Titans in terms of the individual categories of Omnichannel, Customer Centricity and Cross Border Commerce. Now it
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
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
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
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
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