retail supply chain

The Super Bowl of supply chain — Navigate B2B

Navigate B2B 11/20

The big game is over and once again Tom Brady proved to the world why he is one of the greatest quarterbacks to play the game. On this episode of Navigate B2B, host and OceanAudit CEO Steve Ferreira interviews a guest who knows a little something about greatness himself. 

Brittain Ladd is an expert in the retail world and in 2013 used game theory to make a case for Amazon acquiring grocery chain Whole Foods. 

Four years later, Ladd’s prediction came true when the organic grocer became part of the...

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The delivery-return relationship — Point Of Sale

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This podcast is sponsored by ArcBest. ArcBest is more than logistics. Whatever you do, whatever you ship, ArcBest makes it easier for you to do business. ArcBest combines reliable capacity, innovative technology and trusted relationships to take the complexity out of your supply chain and keep your shipments moving. That’s what makes ArcBest more than logistics.

In the first episode of the FreightWaves podcast Point Of Sale, host Andrew Cox takes an in-depth look at specific sectors of the...

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Creating the digital glue that connects in-store, online experiences

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In 2019, 4% of grocery sales were online. In 2020, that spiked to 30%, according to Karen Bomber, Honeywell’s head of retail insights. COVID changed that and so much more for the retail supply chain in 2020, with some of the changes likely becoming permanent, Bomber and Miya Knights, head of industry insight atSaaS technology company Eagle Eye, told the audience during a virtual session Tuesday as part of the National Retail Federation’s Chapter One conference.

Noting that she was one of those...

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Consumer economy to be “A Tale of Two Halves”

(Chart: Bank of America)

The U.S. economy, though certainly aided by exorbitant fiscal stimulus, did prove one long-held truism — the American consumer is resilient, nearly impossible to break, and he or she will continue to spend almost regardless of the circumstances (even including the biggest quarterly drop in real GDP in 90 years since the Great Depression). Consumers drove the economy and the freight market throughout the back half of 2020, and for at least the first half of 2021, the...

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The Daily Dash: Activist investor seeks more value from Forward Air

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The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, an activist investor is pushing Forward Air to create more shareholder value. Plus, looking at the major trends expected to impact the retail supply chain in 2021, and Deutsche Bank’s Amit Mehrotra shares his truckload stock outlook.

Pushing for more shareholder value

As Forward Air (NASDAQ: FWRD) retooled its corporate strategy in 2020, its share price lagged comparable less-than-truckload carriers...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-daily-dash-activist-investor-seeks-more-value-from-forward-air

5 predictions for retail supply chains in 2021

Rather than recapping 2020, I’d rather look onward. There have been a ton of retail supply chain changes this past year. Some will last, others will not. Let’s collectively lick our wounds and look forward. Here’s 5 predictions for the retail supply chain in 2021.

Correction, inventory

Much has been made of relatively low inventory levels across the retail supply chain this year. The inventory-to-sales ratio currently stands at 1.31, down from 1.40 this time last year. We at FreightWaves have...

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FreightWaves announces Global Supply Chain Week virtual conference

Global Supply Chain conference

Toilet paper and cleaning supply shortages are just two of the memories Americans will have when 2020 is revisited. But the shortages revealed something else about America: how important the often unseen and rarely talked about (outside of the industry) supply chain is to the nation’s economic engine.

The supply chain finally got its due in 2020, and that spotlight will continue into 2021.

FreightWaves is hosting Global Supply Chain Week — actually eight full days total — of virtual content...

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Introducing FreightWaves Communities

This morning at FreightWaves LIVE, FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller and Director of Passport Research JP Hampstead announced the launch of FreightWaves Communities, a new initiative to build highly engaged audiences of supply chain professionals in specific industry verticals.

Beginning with a focus on retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and automotive supply chains, Communities will deliver newsletters, editorial content, podcasts, and videos directly to practitioners in those...

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