Retailing as a business model is being challenged by e-tailers and demands for an ever-improving customer experience. Lessons from the military can help.
The notion of a platform holds the key to building true end-to-end supply chains, says Roddy Martin, chief digital supply chain officer with TraceLink.
Procter & Gamble, facing an industrywide backlash against consumer waste, is seeking a patent that would help it develop recyclable versions of absorbent products including diapers, sanitary products and even Swiffer pads.
For all stakeholders in traditional supply-chain ecosystems, and specifically in life-science supply chains, enormous digitally enabled breakthrough opportunities lie ahead.
Until recently, the U.S. dairy industry had been relatively quiet about the proliferation of non-dairy products that use words like “milk” or “cheese.” But lately it’s been pushing back.
Even the world’s biggest store doesn’t make money selling its wares online in the U.S., largely due to runaway shipping costs. So Walmart is turning to robots.