... larger, more automated DCs along with smaller, more local ones in response to the demands of digital consumers. This means that scale economies for low cost, plus proximity for high service levels are both part of the plan. Extreme weather has huge impacts on consumer demand. For retailers stuck in the ...
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... cubic volumes, mold-flow rates and so on. Supply chain professionals must own the problem of making physical things happen, in volume, and at costs low enough to make profit. 2. Supply chain is quantitative – This is certainly true for finance and engineering, but no one else in business is as comfortable ...
... investments being made by Foxconn to outfit plants in China with advanced robotics confirm our data, which shows that automation is rising faster in low-cost countries like China, Mexico and Brazil than in the US. On top of all that, Google is throwing in some big dollars, right behind Apple, which has ...
... schoolers throwing a party via Facebook is fair enough – before you know it there are 150 screaming kids in your house, all because the barrier to entry is low and the time lag is miniscule. Control and security are going to be vital. Cloud is also not free. Most will concede that even the best applications ...
... consumers’ price elasticity. My guess is that Amazon has both of these things well under control and that the game we’re entering now is less about crazy low margins and more about pricing along the demand curve. Service differentiation is the end game SCM World research on the topic points to a “move to the ...
... arises not from profligacy, but from a shortage of organic growth. Finding ways to reduce prices, unit sizes and the capital equipment required to access low-income markets offers a topline story to activist investors. Unilever, Diageo and Nestlé are all good examples of this dynamic at work. The Poor Are ...
... others had plans to do so in the five- to seven-year horizon. In reality, our boards’ collective appetite for “buying insurance policies” was relatively low prior to COVID-19, but now they are primed to invest based on the business case. What Did We Learn? Here are some key takeaways from the group sharing ...
... Green Economy — Energy is an affordable and secure resource, with a long-term separation of electricity and natural gas costs. Nations investing in low-carbon energy thrive and foster clean energy innovation. Commercial and domestic markets are subsidized. Infrastructure barriers to supply have been ...
... overwhelmingly the province of supply chain and that the most pursued metric of improvement is forecast accuracy. We also know that sales skills are low priority for most in supply chain, which means that any focus on making revenue targets for the quarter is usually assumed to be someone else’s job. ...