Jan12
Right before the end of 2011, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a revised Driver’s Hours-of-Service Final Rule (HOS) impacting the daily and weekly amounts that trucker drivers can drive. The new rule is a bit complicated but the ramifications are severe and will surely be felt on America’s roadways [...]
Dec12
Supply chain executives face an increasingly complex environment with more and more moving parts—both literally and figuratively. The growth of online and mobile retailing influences customers’ expectations and drives not only how retailers market and sell products, but how they plan, buy, produce, transport and store them. Supported by good leadership, retailers are rising to [...]
Dec01
*Update – According to reports, the freight rail companies and labor unions reached a tentative agreement averting a potential strike.* If freight railroad companies and a handful of unions don’t agree on an extension to the “cooling off” period or reach agreement on a new deal by midnight December 6, the rail labor groups could [...]
Posted in: Public Policy Tagged black friday, congress, consumers, Cyber Monday, Freight, labor, NRF, Obama Administration, retail, Strike, Supply Rail, union |
Oct17
$800 billion into the U.S. economy. 1 million new jobs created. 100 million new customers. It may sound like a fantasy, but this could easily become reality. Believe it or not, the answer is as simple as speeding up the process by which it approves visas for business and leisure travelers who want to come [...]
Apr01
Finding the next generation of supply chain leaders continues to be a major challenge for both retailers and their supply chain partners. Traditionally supply chain leaders would come solely from the distribution or transportation disciplines. In today’s world of the global supply chain, companies need to look beyond the traditional sectors to find the next [...]
Mar15
While retail supply chains will once again face challenges this year, from both a regulatory and operational perspective, these challenges will present themselves as opportunities, especially when it comes to multichannel retailing. Retailers will take the opportunity in 2011 to look at how to better manage their operating expenses in an effort to better support [...]
Posted in: Education | Retail Companies | Video Tagged channel proliferation, customer expectations, Dennis Cohen, Inside the Supply Chain, inventory management, multichannel, Office Depot, operating expenses, operational efficiencies, Polo Ralph Lauren, retail supply chain, Russ LoCurto, Supply Chain '11 |
Feb28
Just as 2010 brought many challenges and opportunities for retail supply chains, we believe 2011 will do the same. The strong growth we saw in 2010 has retailers cautiously optimistic that the economic recovery is finally taking hold. However, this does not mean retailers or their customers are fully out of the woods yet. One [...]
Posted in: Retail Companies | Video Tagged Charming Shoppes, Dennis Cohen, economic recovery, Inside the Supply Chain, inventory, Kurt Salmon Associates, Laurie Everill, multichannel operations, network optimization, Office Depot, Polo Ralph Lauren, retail supply chain, Russ LoCurto, Supply Chain '11, supply chain operations |
Feb11
While 2010 was a year of recovery for parts of the U.S. economy and the retail sector in particular, it was also fraught with significant challenges, especially for those involved in supply chain operations. Retailers faced many issues in 2010 that challenged their ability to bring products to market, including a lack of available capacity [...]
Posted in: Retail Companies | Sustainability | Video Tagged Charming Shoppes, Dan Mueller, Global Supply Chain Summit, Inside the Supply Chain, Kohl's, Laurie Everill, ocean carriers, partnerships, retail supply chain, Supply Chain '11, transpacific trade lanes |
Dec03
In 2008, Congress passed sweeping changes to consumer product safety laws under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. This came as the result of the numerous toy recalls to due lead that occurred in 2007. Even though the law was passed over two years ago, the Consumer Product Safety Commission continues to issue new regulations [...]
Posted in: Public Policy Tagged 15 month rule, certification requirements, Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, Consumer Product Safety Incident Database, CPSC, Intertek Consumer Goods, Joe Mohorovic, lead recalls, phthalates, product recall, product safety, Quin Dodd, retail compliance |
Nov04
One of the biggest challenges that retailers face is finding, training and retaining the next generation of retail executives. This tends to be an even more pressing issue when it comes to the next generation of talent. What’s the biggest difficulty in finding the next generation of supply chain executives? According to Dennis Cohen, Senior [...]
Posted in: Events | Retail Companies | Retail Trends | Video Tagged Dennis Cohen, distribution, Inside the Supply Chain, Kohl's, Office Depot, product development, regulation compliance, retail supply chain, retail training, Strategic Supply Chain Council, Supply Chain '11, supply chain management, transportation |
