Rapidly Improve Your Supply Chain’s Sustainability For large corporations, sustainability improvements have become increasingly urgent due to pressure from shareholders and customers. Many organizations have invested in initiatives such as replacing packaging with recyclable materials or using clean energy. These are necessary and noble initiatives, but they often operate on a much longer time horizon […]

Consumer Research: How Retailers Win Customer Loyalty in an Omnichannel World Retailers already know the importance of optimizing inventory. Yet almost one in three customers still report stockouts when utilizing click-and-collect or BOPIS. With customer loyalty waning – and inflation only adding to concerns – how does inventory impact consumer loyalty? And how can you […]

Five Key Challenges to Aligning Capacity and Demand Three years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the “bullwhip effect” of misaligned capacity and demand persists, contributing to labor and equipment shortages alongside port and inland congestion. Balancing capacity and demand has proven elusive, as many companies still lack full real-time, end-to-end visibility into the location and status […]

Five Key Challenges to Aligning Capacity and Demand Three years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the “bullwhip effect” of misaligned capacity and demand persists, contributing to labor and equipment shortages alongside port and inland congestion. Balancing capacity and demand has proven elusive, as many companies still lack full real-time, end-to-end visibility into the location and status […]

Improving Warehouse Operations with Automation Labor challenges. Getting orders out the door on time. As a logistics manager, you know it’s tough enough to deal with those firestorms, let alone find time to focus on warehouse productivity. What can you do to even out that struggle? Logistics managers worldwide are making the move to automation, […]

Five Essential Ways a Buy-Sell Solution Brings Resiliency and Agility to the Supply Chain — and the Business Creating resilient and agile supply chains requires a platform that enables enterprises to leverage economies of scale when working with suppliers and contract manufacturers, while minimizing risk, disruptions and shortages. A buy-sell solution can increase resiliency while […]

Fulfillment Facility Improved Efficiencies by 4x Winit, a cross-border e-commerce warehousing operator that serves the United States, Australia, and several European countries, needed to store over 100,000 SKUs in the 108,000 square foot facility in the U.K. while improving workflow efficiencies and order fulfillment accuracy and speed. After adding 100 Hai Robotics’ robots and implementing […]

Using Digital Deflation to Prepare Manufacturers for Change Inflation is raging at an annualized rate of well over 8% and worker shortages and wage increases — at over 5% — are also increasing corporate costs and negatively impacting profitability. Many CFOs will want to scale back spending in such an environment but should resist the […]

The State of Retail Inventory: The Latest Risks, Opportunities, and Tactics to Create Winning Shopper Experiences Retailers already know success depends on optimized inventory – customers demand the right product in the right place at exactly the right time. Yet, the truth is, from shortages to excess stock, inventory challenges continue. In fact, stockouts are […]