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3 Key Retail Supply Chain Trends to Watch in 2017 As much as we all love lists, it’s important to remember that innovations and business challenges are not bound by calendar years. They are ongoing and incessant evolutions. Yet companies rightly think in terms of calendar or financial years – it’s an uncomplicated and effective […]

The Ultimate Guide to Picking a Marketing Automation Tool Marketing isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Go around and survey a bunch of business owners, and they’ll undoubtedly tell you how critical marketing is to building consumer-brand trust and building a solid relationship with their customers. This is because marketing and sales go together

How to improve customer experience in retail supply chains The customer is king (or queen). The customer is always right. The customer is at the center of everything we do. Platitudes, to be sure. But within these tired phrases lies a fundamental truth: customers can do whatever they want. And in a world with no

Responding to the Digital Strategy: Building a stronger supply chain Meeting the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution By Andrew Nichols, Tungsten Analytics Lead and Head of Procurement for Tungsten Network On March 1, the government launched its long awaited Digital Strategy. Initially due in early 2016, its overdue publication outlined the vision of a

Omnitracs Launches App That Combines Routing, Compliance Kevin Haugh by Seth Clevenger/Transport Topics  PHOENIX — Omnitracs has launched an application that combines route optimization and regulatory compliance to streamline fleet management, especially for customers with shorthaul and final-mile delivery operations. The new offering, dubbed Routing, Dispatching and Compliance, or RDC, incorporates the capabilities of Omnitracs’

Big data analytics technology: disruptive and important? Of all the disruptive technologies we track, big data analytics is the biggest. It’s also among the haziest in terms of what it really means to supply chain. In fact, its importance seems more to reflect the assumed convergence of trends for massively increasing amounts of data and

Transforming transportation with real-time analytics May 3, 2017    In today’s digital economy, technology trends are motivating businesses in every industry to transform their supply chain. From planning and order fulfillment to warehouse management, supply chain companies that utilize Big bata and analytics are seeing a profound impact on their growth and long-term success. The

More than the last mile: smarter logistics and the cities of tomorrow A new report has revealed that in order to meet the growing challenges of city logistics, new logistics models will be required. The “More than the last mile” report from JLL, a research report examining the impact of smarter logistics in shaping cities

Supply Chain 4.0: Adidas and Amazon re-write the rules on supply chain management In an amazing twist, technology is rendering the old fundamentals of supply chain management obsolete. In Russia, Adidas increased sales in Moscow by double digits in 24 hours, thanks to a supply chain initiative. At the same time Amazon is now looking

Think Technology Can’t Disrupt Trucking Any More Than It Has? Just Wait. If you think technology is causing major, and rapid changes among U.S. industries — including trucking — you haven’t seen anything yet. That’s one of the key messages from a parallel review of two new major studies: the Future of Growth and Industry Report from