Consumers are buying products through many different channels the consumer goods supply chain has become more complex than ever before.
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How a Leading Retailer is Using a Control Tower to Manage their Supply Chain
How one of the largest retailers in Africa is using innovative technology to improve customer service while lowering supply chain
Fixing Grocery Retail’s $10 Billion Problem
After analyzing data for 1.75 million retail DC appointments on One Network’s Real Time Value Network, it became clear… the
Most Popular Supply Chain Posts of 2018 So Far (Part 1)
With the mid-year upon us, it’s time to review what people are reading. Don’t miss The Most Popular Posts of
How Digitalization Holds the Key to Retail and Consumer Goods Success
Dave Allen, a supply chain thought leader with a history of transforming supply chains at major consumer goods companies, share
Improving On-Time and In-Full Performance
Ensuring On-Time, In-Full (OTIF) deliveries was a top priority for companies in 2017 and has continued to be the number
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
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
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
Amazon Goes Big on Brick-and Mortar with Whole Foods Deal
Whole Foods stock surges 28% on Amazon acquisition news, will retailers retreat or rebel? If grocery companies weren’t shaken enough
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
Digital Disruption: Supply Chain Planning in the Digital Era
by Gene Tyndall, Executive Vice President, Tompkins International Digital disruption is sweeping through the business landscape. Supply chain planners need
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
Replenishment: The Store Specific Replenishment Advantage
In our first article on replenishment, Replenishment: The Real Time Advantage, we explored the significant advantages of shorter replenishment lead
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
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
Trends in Food Packaging
by Shalu Jain, Senior Marketing Executive at DCGPAC Emerging Trends in Food and Beverage Packaging The food packaging industry always
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
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