Category: Retail

Introduction  Supply chain agility is essential for organizations to remain competitive. Consumer demands, new technologies, and economic conditions can disrupt the balance between supply and demand. Supply planning, or accurately estimating the quantities of products, raw materials, or components needed to meet customer demand, represents one key supply chain challenge. Effective supply planning helps organizations […]

Introduction Supply chains are vast, interconnected networks spanning multiple tiers of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers across diverse geographies. These complex, multimodal networks involve numerous internal and external players operating at different consumption points. The multitude of participants, disparate systems, and lack of seamless data sharing challenge demand and supply planning processes, making it difficult […]

Supply chain management is rapidly evolving, with consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and retail organizations facing unprecedented challenges driven by dynamic customer demands, geopolitical disruptions, and market volatility. To stay ahead in this highly competitive landscape, organizations must embrace innovation and leverage advanced technologies that enable agility, resilience, and operational excellence. The AWS Summit New York, will […]

Organizations face a complex challenge in maintaining sustainability compliance across their vast, global supply chains. Managing complex regulatory requirements, collecting data from suppliers worldwide, and auditing that data for accuracy using traditional email and fragmented messaging tools proves inefficient and error-prone. As organizations navigate the modern supply chain landscape, embracing digital and physical transformations will […]

Persistent supply chain disruptions have exposed the vulnerabilities caused by siloed data and disjointed processes that impact supply chain visibility, agility, and resilience. The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group’s comprehensive research advisory report addresses these critical challenges and provides a roadmap for enhancing end-to-end supply chain synchronization. It emphasizes establishing a broad, interconnected supply chain […]

Organizations are pursuing leaner operations and new strategies to meet customer demands, lower costs, and increase resiliency against external forces. Every industry has faced an increasing number of supply chain disruptions over the past decade due to natural disasters, weather events, labor shortages, trade disputes, and geopolitical issues. The rate of supply chain disruptions is […]

In the fast-paced world of supply chain management, where economic shifts and evolving customer preferences pose constant challenges, prioritizing efficiency and adaptability are crucial to effectively meeting end-customer demands. Organizations are increasingly turning to automated solutions to streamline supply chain management functions that reduce manual tasks, increase efficiency, and improve overall performance. However, fragmented data […]

AWS Supply Chain has added several exciting enhancements, including generative AI, to simplify the data ingestion process and improve your application on-boarding and setup experience. AWS Supply Chain unifies supply chain data, provides machine learning-powered actionable insights, and offers built-in contextual collaboration to help you mitigate risks, lower costs, and increase resilience. The supply chain […]

Last month I shared my key predictions for 2024. This blog expands on the necessity of gathering scattered data across multiple systems into a unified data model. Supply chain leaders face increasing complexity from sprawling global networks and rising customer expectations. As a result, supply chain management has transformed into a strategic differentiator as customers […]

The AWS Supply Chain team will be at NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show to discuss upcoming retail supply chain focused capabilities and share the latest retail trends and technologies. AWS, Amazon, and AWS Partners enable retailers to accelerate innovation with proven born-from-retail, built-for-retailer technologies so they can meet today’s consumer expectations, optimize operations, and improve […]