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E-commerce: Balancing new patterns of demand
| 题名： | E-commerce: Balancing new patterns of demand |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Michael A. Levans |
| 摘要： | Starting on page 18, we charged industry veteran- and soon to be monthly columnist-Brooks Bentz with gathering a group of top freight transportation analysts to help us encapsulate where we are across the modes in the wake of this unyielding growth. "It's safe to say we're getting used to managing on a field that's continually shifting on us," says Bentz. "And that's good because it has forced savvy logistics professionals to innovate, be it with packaging or simply in the way they optimize how they manage the capacity that they already have. The challenge of balancing these new patterns of demand has pushed us to get better and apply new systems-all positive signs for the future." As Bentz reports, more positive signals will continue to flash as more companies figure out the best fulfillment model to fit their operations. "There's a large proliferation of fulfillment centers, generally smaller and closer to customers," says Bentz. "However, most progressive retailers will balance these flows and use distributed order management algorithms to allocate orders across their supply chain in a way that balances inventory position, logistics cost and proximity to the customer." |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Logistics Management |
| 卷： | 62 |
| 期： | 3 |
| 页码： | 7-7 |
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