The Supply Chain Matters highlights this week’s announcement from JDA Software announcing a complete corporate rebranding and offers initial impressions related to this supply chain tech market announcement.
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On the occasion of Valentine’s Day, the Supply Chain Matters blog highlights the overall supply network preparations and required air cargo logistics that support the gifting and celebrations of today’s holiday.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a follow-on to a prior blog highlighting United Parcel Service’s recent 2019 financial performance and revelation of a strong dependency on Amazon, by contrasting a related announcement from UPS on the acceleration of fleet electrification and investment in manufacturer Arrival EV vans.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights of United Parcel Service’s Q4 and 2019 full year financial performance, and on the disclosure by UPS that Amazon’s parcel shipping needs represents 11 percent of UPS’s total revenues.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights the implications of Amazon.com’s Q4 and full year 2019 financial performance.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights the most recent reported data on U.S. holiday fulfillment retail sales, and shares insights relative to evaluating retail sales performance in proper context, consistent assumptions and today’s more advanced, technology-driven supply chain planning and decision-making capabilities.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog features our January 18 2020 Edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech, a brief synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based blog readership. Included in this edition are noteworthy announcements and/or developments related to IBM Sterling, Meritor and TransPower, and Agillitics.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights reports of preliminary 2019 holiday fulfillment data pointing to the potential establishment of new records in online shopping activity.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog reflects on the now underway peak of online retail-focused reverse logistics processes involving millions of customers returning goods to U.S. and other global retailers, and the increasing implications to online costs and planning.
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Supply Chain Matters Editor Bob Ferrari highlights for readers key supply chain management themes for 2020, relating a specific timely news stream example of where strategic trends have placed both FedEx and Amazon as visible competitors.
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Supply chain management technology industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters Editor Bob Ferrari, provides a commentary reflecting on the multiple romaine lettuce product contamination incidents and subsequent product recalls that have occurred in the U.S., and the specific role of advanced supply chain technologies in addressing this challenging and perplexing problem.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog updates readers on multiple reports of a temporary hiccup on the part of Amazon Logistics in delivery of purchases to Amazon Prime members.
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