by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution
COVID-19 has permanently altered the way we live, work, and shop. It has changed the retail environment and experience in two ways: as a disruption to business as usual and as an amplifier of long-standing strains that existed prior to the pandemic and show no...
by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution
MORE than half of more than 1,000 supply chain professionals worldwide surveyed recently by the Materials Handling Institute (MHI) and Deloitte said they are planning to increase or substantially increase their investments in cloud computing and storage to make supply...
by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution
Inflation has gone up in many countries, as supply chain bottlenecks disrupted the flow of commodities globally. Issues such as labor mismatch, port congestion and lack of truckers have hampered trade, resulting in up to 70-percent increase in prices of some...
by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution
To adapt to the ever-changing environment in which they operate, chief supply chain leaders must also employ new technologies and reimagine the future of supply chains. The pandemic shone a spotlight on global supply chain networks. It exposed their flaws and...
by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution
SUPPLY shocks in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic show that companies will have to make their supply chains more resilient. In a Harvard Business Review article called Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World, Willy C. Shih, a professor of Management...
by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution
A shift from profit to people-first culture, end-to-end visibility, the leveraging of technology to support companies’ vision, mission and culture, the importance of planning, and the switch from transaction to collaborative approach — these are just some of the...
