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Why Visibility is Essential To Creating A Resilient Supply Chain

Supply chain visibility allows stakeholders, such as manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retailers, and customers, to have real-time access to information about the location, quantity, and condition of products in transit. Improved visibility can help reduce supply chain costs, increase efficiency, and enhance customer satisfaction. It can also help mitigate risks associated with supply chain disruptions, such as natural disasters, geopolitical issues, or transportation disruptions.
But what...

Ready, Set Shop: Holiday Shopping begins without concern

Congratulations retailers! The 2020 holiday shopping season officially kicked off a couple of weeks ago with Amazon’s Prime Day marking the start of what will be a very different holiday season. We’re all used to seeing malls and stores packed on Black Friday and the days leading up to Christmas, but this year the focus will be on staying at home and shopping online. Retailers are having to pivot and react to these changes to stay ahead of the competition and make their offers stand out from the...

Demystifying EDI: An EDI Crash Course in Supply Chain Tech

You’ve been there before. You receive a question from one of your top trading partners about an EDI transaction from three months ago. Most likely, that information won’t be in your local archive so you’ve got to dig through an offsite one. You search through hundreds and hundreds of transactions. Aimlessly hoping that needle in the haystack will call out to you. Before you know it, you’ve wasted hours trying to track down this data when you could’ve been attending to important business matters....