The Supply Chain Matters blog issues a plea to U.S. government leaders indicating that time is crucial for manufacturing and supply chain resources to be prioritized across the United States to provide essential healthcare delivery products to combat the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
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The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group’s Managing Director Bob Ferrari pens a Supply Chain Matters blog commentary that revisits 2020 Predictions published a mere few weeks ago, and how a post COVID-19 world adds potential new dimensions to certain prediction areas.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to a published editorial outlining essential steps for the U.S. government and industry players to act now to protect critical supply chains required to respond to the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a commentary focused on Amazon.com and the online retailer’s succumbing to COVID-19 fear-based buying. Announced are efforts to temporarily revise inventory management policies and add upwards of 100,000 additional workers.
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Supply Chain Matters blog Founder and Executive Editor Bob Ferrari shares the Top Ten Most Read Blog Content among readers published during 2019.
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Supply Chain Matters continues to highlight select 2019 financial performance data for certain online retail providers, now including Wayfair.com, that, in certain cases, points to challenged online business models in terms of operating profitability.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights global retailer Walmart’s recent 2019 financial performance and signs that the retailer has added challenges in controlling the cost of online fulfillment.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog once again highlights online fashion start-up Rent the Runway and ongoing efforts to streamline this start-up’s customer fulfillment and logistics experiences.
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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 provides a series of individual blogs that explore added detail and perspective around each of ten 2020 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains. This particular blog highlights Prediction Eight which relates to the ongoing multiyear transition to Digitally Enabled Response Networks, and Prediction Nine, the ongoing positioning for global online B2C and B2B commerce likely being scaled back or refocused in the coming year.
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