In pursuit of agility and resilience amidst endless changes to the plan? Is your company’s approach to being responsive mostly an energy-draining daily firefight? The solution may lie in understanding the root-causes of these constant changes, and strengthening your mid-term planning process and solutions.

Itamar Zur, co-founder and CEO of next-generation shipping platform Veho, wants e-tailers to fundamentally reframe how they think about the returns side of the business.

Retailers already know success depends on optimized inventory - customers demand the right product in the right place at exactly the right time. Yet, the truth is, from shortages to excess stock, inventory challenges continue.

With customer loyalty waning – and inflation only adding to concerns – how does inventory impact consumer loyalty?

As a company responds to and predicts consumer trends, it will make a series of assumptions about those trends that inform its demand planning.

To navigate today’s dynamic environment, Procurement Leaders must isolate the trends impacting their function, unpack the challenges they pose, and prioritize the actions needed in response to shape their strategic plans now and into the future.

Labor shortages amid rising COVID-19-related demand left DC operators and 3PLs with few options for remaining competitive apart from automation.

Manufacturers and consumers of perishable goods, such as pharmaceuticals, food, and beverage products, are demanding deeper insights into how products are being stored and transported.

One of the chief benefits of digitization is where it meets robotics in the form of robotic process automation. RPA, also known as software robotics, has the potential to transform daily and ongoing business processes by using automation technologies to mimic back-office tasks of human workers. 

Toyota Motor Corp. is tying up with Redwood Materials Inc., a battery recycling company created by Tesla Inc. co-founder J.B. Straubel, to collect and repurpose cells from some of the earliest battery-powered vehicles.