How can retailers to inventory is optimally located for that final leg of the journey? Linking demand and fulfillment with inventory planning remains an under explored advantage that will help combat consumer expectations that span not just speed and convenience, but sustainability too. Essentially, shoppers want ultimate agility at the lowest possible price. For the retailer, this incorporates fulfillment considerations…
The manufacturing and logistics industry is integrating its ecosystem with cutting-edge new technologies such as the use of IoT in supply chain management. Automation and AI, robotics, language processing and lean manufacturing are experiencing massive and rapid changes in the technologies that control and support them. However, the major difficulties faced by the sector in the time of pandemic have…
US manufacturing is poised for a significant resurgence. The supply chain failures caused by the pandemic have shown the weakness of the over-reliance on long supply chains, especially one outside the US. Furthermore, rising tensions with China have made the US question its reliance on Chinese manufacturing for economic success. The problem is that American manufacturing has a serious shortage…
