The high cost of parcel shipping presents a host of challenges for companies looking to cut down on overall supply chain expense. And Creativity, Inc., a mid-sized provider of a wide range of materials and supplies for quilt makers, is no exception.

Customer experience, or CX, has become the focus of much corporate attention, but it’s still rare to see it directly related to supply chain operations in B2B commerce. It’s critical to keep the customer experience in mind throughout the lifecycle of a customer order transaction.

Retail returns involve real products and logistics, and as much as artificial intelligence promises to streamline things, it needs one crucial component: physical data.

In this session, we will discuss how supply chains should harness the collective potential - meaning the potential of the individual, the community and technology to drive productivity, business growth and achievement of enterprise objectives. 

By aligning loans with inventory turnover, reducing supply chain timelines, and carefully balancing inventory purchases, businesses can significantly cut costs and boost profitability.

The platform was first hinted at in June 2024, when CNBC reported that Amazon had announced the store to a private conference of Chinese sellers.

The National Retail Federation projects $979-989 billion worth of retail sales in the U.S. during the November-December holiday season in 2024.

The omnichannel has been with us for a long time. But does that mean that retailers are truly “channel-agnostic”?

Over the course of his campaign, Trump vowed to implement tariffs on Chinese imports between 60% and 100%, in addition to 10-20% tariffs on all other imports.

We congratulate the winner and finalists of this year’s Supply Chain Innovation Award competition, and trust that their examples will motivate others to seek out new ideas and solutions.