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UPS Capital Examines How Merchants Are Handling Consumers’ Speed Demands
The 2024 Need for Speed report, commissioned by UPS Capital, explores strategies for navigating this challenge, drawing insights from 500 e-commerce merchants and 1,000 U.S. consumers.
Reverse Logistics
54% of Retailers are Looking for Ways to Increase the Financial Recovery from Returns: Report
Sourcing Solutions
94% of Consumers Plan to Spend the Same or More Online This Season: Survey
Reverse Logistics
Holiday Returns Expected to Reach $160 Billion This Season: Research
Sourcing Solutions
Scalable Automation: The Key to Staying Competitive in Fulfillment
Procurement Software
Procurement Strategies for a Smooth Peak Season: Alexis Asks
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Fleet Management
Leveraging U.S.-Mexico Cross-Border Logistics in 2025: Alexis Asks
The U.S.-Mexico cross-border corridor offers potential for businesses looking to drive efficiency in their supply chains. Collaborative strategies and digital tools can help businesses through evolving trade policies and unlock new opportunities.
Automation
SCN Summit: Future of the Supply Chain Kicks Off Dec. 3
SCN Summit: Future of the Supply Chain kicks off Dec. 3. Experts from PLM Fleet, Datex Corp. and Alteryx will talk about how to leverage clean technologies, warehouse management and analytics automation.
Sponsored
Move Over, Humans: AI Agents Are Ready to Operate Our Supply Chains!
Picture this: procurement leaders and teams who not only respond to market shocks in real time, but are able to predict and mitigate risk while continuing to achieve our cost and sustainability targets.
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Procurement Software
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Role in Revolutionizing Procurement
Predictive and prescriptive analytics can help businesses make the right procurement decisions and advances in AI will leverage data to further shape predictions around future outcomes based on existing information.
Procurement Software
Gartner Identifies 3 Advancements in Generative AI That Will Shape the Future of Procurement
Agentic reasoning, multimodality and AI agents are the advancements that will redefine how procurement operates and significantly impact the agendas of chief procurement officers (CPOs).
Visibility Software
Predictive Analytics Beyond Peak: Preparing Retailers for the Unexpected
Ultimately, predictive analytics isn’t just a tool for managing peak seasons; it’s a year-round necessity that helps retailers navigate unpredictable demands, ensuring they remain agile and responsive in an ever-changing marketplace.
Reverse Logistics
Rebranding of goTRG to ReturnPro Promotes Future of Returns Management
goTRG announces a strategic rebranding and name change to ReturnPro. This new identity underscores the Company's position as the only fully integrated returns management solution to solve returns.
Manufacturing
Factory Demand Weakens Across Major Economies in October: GEP Index
The index remained in territory that indicated one of the highest levels of spare capacity at global suppliers in over a year during October, with no imminent turnaround in Western manufacturing in sight.
Manufacturing
How Smart Component Feedback Is Revolutionizing Predictive Maintenance
Although predictive maintenance is a proven and rapidly maturing field, it’s still seen as new by many customers who fear the risks of adopting it too soon.
Sponsored
Move Over, Humans: AI Agents Are Ready to Operate Our Supply Chains!
Picture this: procurement leaders and teams who not only respond to market shocks in real time, but are able to predict and mitigate risk while continuing to achieve our cost and sustainability targets.
Manufacturing
Trump Tariff Proposals Could Cost Americans $78B in Annual Spending Power: NRF Study
A universal 10-20% tariff on imports from all foreign countries and an additional 60-100% tariff on imports specifically from China would impact apparel, toys, furniture, household appliances, footwear and travel goods.
Sourcing Solutions
Shortened Peak Season, Inflation/Affordability and Online Shopping Trends: Survey
Kenco has brought back its survey of over 250 U.S. consumers to get a pulse on their peak season spending habits and their holiday shopping plans and concerns.
Manufacturing
Trump vs. Harris: How Each Candidate’s Policies Would Impact the M&D Industry
No matter what, it’s critical to know how the election outcome may impact your M&D business and to plan accordingly for either outcome
E-Commerce Solutions
Consumers Are Willing to Pay for Convenience Despite Tight Shopping Budgets: Survey
Cin7 releases the findings of their Winning The Holiday Dollar report, which surveyed over 600 consumers on their holiday shopping plans and preferences.
Sourcing & Procurement
Move Over, Humans: AI Agents Are Ready to Operate Our Supply Chains!
Picture this: procurement leaders and teams who not only respond to market shocks in real time, but are able to predict and mitigate risk while continuing to achieve our cost and sustainability targets.
Procurement Software
Indicators to Watch Ahead of the 2024 Holiday Peak Season
Supply is high while demand and rates are low, so an inflationary market flip in the near term is highly unlikely unless an unforeseen and severe black swan event occurs.
Sourcing Solutions
Preparing Procurement Teams for U.S. Election Impacts: Alexis Asks
As elections signal shifts in government policies, procurement teams must proactively prepare for potential changes that could affect supply chains, regulatory environments and market dynamics.
Procurement Software
Advice to Procurement Leaders: Focus on What You Can Control
While it is important to have these tactics in your playbook and prepare for external risks as much as possible, don’t overlook your ability to focus on what you can best control in procurement: the focus of your supplier relationships.
Procurement Software
Pros to Know Award: Nominations Open
This award recognizes influential individuals whose accomplishments offer a roadmap for other leaders looking to leverage supply chain for competitive advantage. Submissions close Dec. 27.
Procurement Software
How GenAI is Powering Competitive Sourcing Events for Retail Procurement Teams
GenAI empowers retail procurement teams and their organizations to make business decisions based on objective data that lead to the best possible outcomes.
Reverse Logistics
Retailers Recognize the Struggle of Returns This Holiday Season: Report
With the holidays fast approaching, goTRG finds insights into the issues that retailers expect to impact their bottom line this holiday season.
Sponsored
Move Over, Humans: AI Agents Are Ready to Operate Our Supply Chains!
Picture this: procurement leaders and teams who not only respond to market shocks in real time, but are able to predict and mitigate risk while continuing to achieve our cost and sustainability targets.
Retail
Inflation is Leading to Belt-Tightening this Holiday Season: Survey
Recent data from Trax finds that consumers are starting their holiday shopping earlier than ever and scouring for sales.
Risk/Compliance
Communities Nationwide Planning Disaster Preparedness
Cleanup efforts, along with preparedness projects for future disasters, have already created a massive amount of work that must be done quickly. Companies with these types of service offerings will continue to be in extremely high demand in America.
Sourcing Solutions
60% of Leaders See Job Transformation on Horizon: Survey
Ivalua releases its Future of Work in Procurement survey, a US-focused study revealing shifting expectations surrounding the future landscape for procurement professionals as they embrace generative AI and upskilling.
Visibility Software
Consumers Start Holiday Shopping Earlier: Survey
Project44 releases The State of Consumer Holiday Shopping 2024, providing insight on consumer sentiment and habits as the peak holiday shopping season approaches.
Reverse Logistics
Challenges with Returns Logistics: The Environment and Beyond
By focusing on innovation and strategic planning, merchants can transform returns from a challenge into an opportunity for business growth, increased customer loyalty, and a positive experience for their shoppers.
Reverse Logistics
Loop’s Pre-Purchase Returns Solution to Help Merchants Fully Cover Return Costs
Loop launched Offset, a new pre-purchase returns solution that helps merchants offset the high costs of returns and reverse logistics.
3PL/4PL
Women in Supply Chain Award: How Mentorship, Collaboration and Self-Advocacy Pave the Way for Future Female Leaders
Meet the winners from this year's Women in Supply Chain award. For these winners, it’s about mentorship, self-advocacy, collaboration and closing the gender gap to pave the way for future female leaders in logistics.
Procurement Software
Supplyframe Commodity IQ Points to Favorable Procurement Conditions
New analytics show significant progress in the global electronics supply chain in 2024, with inventory levels normalizing and supply-demand balance across most commodities amid muted demand.
E-Commerce Solutions
Ryder E-Commerce Study Reveals In-Store Shopping Sentiment Up 21%
The survey of 1,306 U.S. shoppers explores preferences, expectations, sentiment and behavior pertaining to purchasing, omnichannel experiences, packaging, shipping, returns and sustainability.
Clean Energy
Creating the Blueprint for a Greener Supply Chain
The challenge in sustainability today is as nuanced as the technology available to improve sustainable practice and meet the growing needs of companies, regulations and consumers alike.
Retail
Tighter Returns Policies Threaten U.S. Consumer Spending: Survey
Blue Yonder releases the 2024 Consumer Retail Returns Survey, which examines how U.S. consumers are experiencing and reacting to increasingly stringent returns policies.
