Weak demand and slimmer retail margins eat into airfreight spend
Concerns over excess inventories at retailers are misplaced: the real issue is weak demand and ...
The world’s largest retailer has probably the world’s most ambitious supply chain IT investment programme under way. “We want to know what every product in the world is. We want to know who every person in the world is. And we want to have the ability to connect them together in a transaction,” said its global head of e-commerce recently of the global technology platform currently under construction. But one thing could hold it back from developing a truly omni-channel ...
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