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    Seven Challenges in Retail Business

    Retailers and their logistics departments are facing many challenges – from AI to Greta Thunberg. Some challenges have accompanied this business sector for several years. WITRON’s CEO, Helmut Prieschenk, summarized the seven most important challenges of retail businesses.

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    Digital Load Matching: A Revolution in The Supply Chain Ecosystem

    As shippers seek to optimize supply chain operations, technology allows for innovation to meet that need. This has prompted a recent rise in shipment visibility providers. The most efficient solution, however, is digital load matching which integrates supply chain technologies—including visibility—with machine learning and artificial intelligence.

    Technology is an accelerator, not a substitute, for people in supply chain’s trucking sector. By enabling efficiencies, technology improves ROI for shippers, carriers, and drivers alike.

    Successful integration of technology in supply chain transportation operations works best when there is a return on investment (ROI) for all parties.  With mutual ROI, tremendous efficiencies can be realized. Consider the ongoing driver shortage. Estimates range from 50,000 – 150,000, but the fact is that there are fewer drivers than the North American trucking market needs to fulfill demand.

    Technology can close the gap by helping people do their jobs more efficiently, rather than replacing them. That promise can be stymied, though, if technology drives down costs in one area without creating a benefit for everyone it affects.

    Fortunately, just the opposite is true when it comes to blending technology and people in the trucking sector. In fact, increased efficiency can actually result in lower costs for shippers and trucking firms and higher total earnings for drivers. Plus, shippers will realize other significant benefits including better visibility, greater inventory control, and—ultimately—higher customer satisfaction.

    Sounds too good to be true? It isn’t, and the proof is apparent for those who have adopted best-in-class load-matching solutions. In the highly competitive trucking arena, greater efficiencies are being achieved along with improved ROI for shippers, carriers, and drivers.

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  • Solving the Packaging Problem in E-commerce: Linking Products, Processes and Automated Technology

    Tuesday, September 17, 2019 12:00 to Tuesday, December 17, 2019 12:00 PM Eastern Time

    DATE: Tuesday, September 17, 2019
    TIME: 1:00 PM ET

    Internet-based retail has forever changed the way consumers discover, research and purchase a variety of goods and services.  However, as purchasing behavior shifts from brick and mortar to online, retailers are struggling to build and sustain the infrastructure and human capital to keep pace with the rapidly expanding demand.

    Specifically, e-commerce operations are continually challenged to meet consumer expectations of faster shipping, lower costs, and improved customer experience amidst tightening labor markets.  Forward-thinking retailers are embracing robotics, automation, and AI solutions to drive direct labor out how goods are received, stored and picked within their distribution centers. Is packaging the unsolvable frontier?

    Join us for this free webinar to learn about the various waste sources within a variety of  e-commerce order processing scenarios, explore with us how right-sized packaging, on demand can help your retail facility differentiate its operations to achieve their operational and strategic goals.

    Challenges:

    • Current packaging methods add wasteful time and material costs to e-commerce order processing
    • Labor markets are tightening, requiring retailers to streamline order fulfillment processes
    • Consumers are driving retailers to transition to consumer and environment-friendly packaging methods

    Solutions:

    • Right-sized packaging reduces damages and waste while improving customer experience
    • Integrated software can reduce operator tasks and automate decision-making

  • Boost Performance -- Connect Strategy and Execution Through Integrated Business Planning

    Tuesday, August 13, 2019 12:00 to Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:00 PM Eastern Time

    ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

    Many companies struggle to bring their corporate strategies to fruition. They simply fail to execute. The difference between those companies that execute their strategies and those that do not? Frequently, it is Integrated Business Planning.

    Join us to hear about how IBP can help you execute your strategies. You will learn:

    • How strategy and execution – when linked with IBP – enables companies to outperform their peers.
    • Ways to more clearly articulate, communicate, and monitor strategy that increase the likelihood of executing those strategies.
    • How IBP provides a natural mechanism for an enterprise to align and realign strategies with execution. 

  • Steps to a Compliant Supply Chain

    Thursday, July 18, 2019 12:00 to Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00 PM Eastern Time

    ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

    Today's supply chains are becoming increasingly complex in this global world. It can be hard to have full visibility into your supply chain and truly know who you are doing business with.  

    Supply chain risk isn't just about the ability of the supplier to fulfill their obligations to your organization.  Today, there is a need to think about important topics like modern slavery and environmental, social and governance (ESG).

    Having a compliant supply chain can mean avoiding disruptions to your  business, managing costs and protecting your brand.  

    Join us for this free webinar to learn:

    • Key steps to having a compliant supply chain
    • How data ties to a compliant supply chain
    • What impact does ESG have on a compliant supply chain

  • Can Your Cross-Border Supply Chain Ride the Global Parcel Tsunami?

    Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:00 to Friday, September 27, 2019 12:00 PM Eastern Time

    ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

    eCommerce is driving unprecedented parcel shipping volumes around the globe. It has created a virtual parcel tsunami at the borders that affects everyone in the retail supply chain including suppliers, freight forwarders, customs agents, carriers, and customers.

    Consumers are now shopping globally, which is driving parcel shipping around the world. At the same time, big eCommerce is changing the customer mindset for fast and free shipping, regardless of distance. 

    From the first mile through the last mile, today’s shippers are facing challenges to their global cargo chain. But in the face of these challenges, smart shippers are finding solutions to simplify their cross-border shipping supply chain and taking advantage of the opportunities an endless aisle delivers.

    Join us to take an in-depth look at: 

    Challenges:

    • Not every product can be shipped to every country
    • Scaling “up and out” to achieve global supply chain coverage
    • Selecting the right partners and suppliers that offer a mix of value, trust, and stability

    Solutions:

    • Leveraging strategic, long-term partnerships
    • Building a global cargo chain
    • Blurring of traditional shipping roles

     

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  • Witron_7_challenges

    Seven Challenges in Retail Business

    Retailers and their logistics departments are facing many challenges – from AI to Greta Thunberg. Some challenges have accompanied this business sector for several years. WITRON’s CEO, Helmut Prieschenk, summarized the seven most important challenges of retail businesses.

  • Transfix_digital_load_matching

    Digital Load Matching: A Revolution in The Supply Chain Ecosystem

    As shippers seek to optimize supply chain operations, technology allows for innovation to meet that need. This has prompted a recent rise in shipment visibility providers. The most efficient solution, however, is digital load matching which integrates supply chain technologies—including visibility—with machine learning and artificial intelligence.

    Technology is an accelerator, not a substitute, for people in supply chain’s trucking sector. By enabling efficiencies, technology improves ROI for shippers, carriers, and drivers alike.

    Successful integration of technology in supply chain transportation operations works best when there is a return on investment (ROI) for all parties.  With mutual ROI, tremendous efficiencies can be realized. Consider the ongoing driver shortage. Estimates range from 50,000 – 150,000, but the fact is that there are fewer drivers than the North American trucking market needs to fulfill demand.

    Technology can close the gap by helping people do their jobs more efficiently, rather than replacing them. That promise can be stymied, though, if technology drives down costs in one area without creating a benefit for everyone it affects.

    Fortunately, just the opposite is true when it comes to blending technology and people in the trucking sector. In fact, increased efficiency can actually result in lower costs for shippers and trucking firms and higher total earnings for drivers. Plus, shippers will realize other significant benefits including better visibility, greater inventory control, and—ultimately—higher customer satisfaction.

    Sounds too good to be true? It isn’t, and the proof is apparent for those who have adopted best-in-class load-matching solutions. In the highly competitive trucking arena, greater efficiencies are being achieved along with improved ROI for shippers, carriers, and drivers.

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