Retail Supply Chain Management

Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke to a number of experts from the vendor and analyst communities about recent trends and ongoing areas of development within the world of Transportation Management Systems.

Information Builders, the business intelligence (BI), analytics solutions provider, and data management solutions, attended the SCOPE Supply Chain Conference held 18-20, March 2018, in Chicago to highlight the ways it has helped customers like Lipari Foods effectively and efficiently manage the complex, modern supply chain.

Marks and Spencer (M&S) has selected Zetes to help transform visibility and fulfilment across its fresh food supply chain. The partnership will also see greater collaboration between M&S and its food suppliers via Zetes' supply chain visibility platform, ZetesOlympus.

The latest Aldermore Future Attitudes report reveals that four in five (80%) of SMEs in the IT sector, representing 270,280* small and medium sized business across the UK, find it difficult to hire qualified staff members or keep existing talent in the company.

Philip Jarrett, director of sales & marketing, BEC (Systems Integration) Ltd., discusses BEC's new eSmart Proof of Delivery (ePoD) system and the wide range of benefits it offers to distributors.

An Infosys research report titled, Digital Outlook for the Retail and CPG Industry, highlights how digital technologies deployed at organisations are improving existing operations, solving new problems, and creating new opportunities.

Quintiq, a Dassault Systèmes company and provider of supply chain planning and optimisation (SCP&O) solutions, has announced that its software will be used to support Pandora's capacity expansion program.

Maxoptra has integrated its multi-drop, cloud-based vehicle routing and scheduling software with Quartix real-time vehicle tracking.

With this year's Mobile World Congress about to come to a close, discussions have inevitably focused on the future arrival of 5G connectivity, which could finally become a reality next year.

By Matthew Robertson, Co-CEO NetDespatch.

I read a particularly interesting article this week. It focused on technology and the changing face of delivery. Paragraph after paragraph it waxed lyrical about how consumers were finally starting to embrace new forms of delivery, such as drones and autonomous vehicles, and argued that with robotic drivers no longer limited to our TV screens, soon enough our science-fiction dreams would become a reality.