Like their counterparts in Silicon Valley, China’s largest tech companies struggled to prove online groceries can be a viable business. Then the novel coronavirus struck. Its spread has extended a lifeline to a slew of money-burning businesses — many backed by big name venture capital funds and tech giants from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to
Analyst Insight: Lehigh University developed the first MBA in supply-chain risk management (SCRM) in 2010. The concept has since grown to a global level. The SCRM Consortium now includes 26 companies and about 1,200 SCRM professionals around the globe. Along with similar efforts by other organizations, it continues to assist companies in identifying, assessing, mitigating and
Analyst insight: The supply-chain industry needs new educational models to meet the changing knowledge demands of the profession. Innovative online models are playing a key role in meeting these demands. The new generation of online education programs, commonly known as massive open online courses (or MOOCs), is rapidly evolving — and the implications for future
Companies from Amazon.com Inc. to Walmart Inc. are finding that fresh-grocery delivery is challenging. But there’s one niche of the market that seems ripe with opportunity in 2020: booze. The opportunity is clear: The volume of liquor sold online in the U.S. should more than quadruple by 2024, reaching an estimated value of $13.4 billion,
While the amount of e-commerce orders and goods purchased online continues to grow and grow, what is often overlooked is the back end that comes in the form of the returns of those items, and it comes at no small cost either. That could be viewed as the working thesis of a new report issued