The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the surge in online ordering activity is taxing carrier networks and performance, and how UPS and FedEx are instituting added surcharges or daily shipping volume restrictions. The result is invariably higher costs for online services for major retailers.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights retailer Walmart’s fiscal Q1 financial performance and how online fulfillment readiness helped to boost top-line revenue growth in an extremely challenging retail environment. That stated, new challenges remain.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog addresses how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has already provided meaningful lessons regarding the future requirements and automation needs of online driven customer fulfillment. Contrasting approaches involving total automation of customer fulfillment processes, to that of Autonomous Mobile Robots that enhance worker efficiencies and productivity are explored.
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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 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 blogs provides commentary reflecting on the start of the 2019 Thanksgiving and Black Friday retail and online shopping holidays, and what industry supply chain should anticipate.
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Despite months and months of pre-planning, for every year-end holiday surge period, there always seems to be the few scapegoat logistics providers or retailers along the customer value-chain that endures the most scorn regarding expected vs. actual performance. This year, the first recipient in the barrel is likely UPS.
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We provide a contextual follow-up to our ongoing Supply Chain Matters observations and insights...
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Supply Chain Matters provides a further update for our global supply chain community of readers...
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Online and traditional brick and mortar customer fulfillment professionals should pay special...
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