To be a successful omnichannel retailer in the age of e-commerce, Target can no longer simply continue to incrementally improve each individual aspect of its business. Instead, the company needs a unique and systemwide digital supply strategy that will strengthen Target’s customer promise as well as its bottom line.
As customer demand for greater computing power and product customizations grows, Intel must ask itself, “What is the future the computing supply chain?” and find a way to stay relevant as microprocessors gain further dominance.
3D printing and virtual warehousing has the power to improve the consumer offering and increase the efficiency of the supply chain by providing wider product variety with faster delivery while accessing scale manufacturing advantages and reducing inventory holding cost and production waste. This technology has the potential to fundamentally change global trade dynamics, consumer buying behavior and business strategy as it enables a shift away from the physical and into the virtual.
Written by Sonali Bloom, HBS ’17. This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative’s classroom blogging platform. Craigslist grew rapidly by leveraging hyper-local network effects — but now faces market share erosion as other platforms enter niche segments. Who will win, and how?
Written by Yuval Gonczarowski, HBS ’17. This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative’s classroom blogging platform. What started as a place for disgruntled employees to share their frustrations with the people upstairs anonymously, quickly became a money-making machine.
As retail loses ground and e-commerce gains ever more headway, the ability of warehouses to manage fulfillment becomes more important than ever. Call it the arms race Jeff Bezos started. In this talk from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Bruce Welty of Locus Robotics reveals the ins and outs of the warehouse of the future.
