Lalit Panda

Tariffs aren’t just numbers on paper—they reshape global sourcing strategies overnight. India’s $5 billion relief package for exporters hit by U.S. tariffs is a clear signal: trade policy volatility is here to stay. How are you preparing for tariff-driven cost pressures in 2026? At #LINK2026, leading retailers will discuss how they work to ensure their supply chains stay agile in a shifting trade landscape. Read more about India's response to tariffs: https://lnkd.in/gn5-K9hg Learn more about LINK: https://lnkd.in/esafekjk

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In the race to win the apparel consumer, warehouse clubs are playing a very different game – and it’s working. While traditional fashion retailers are battling shrinking margins and rising inventories, Costco and BJ’s are scaling up. Their playbook? • Data-driven merchandising • Private label discipline • A laser focus on value Apparel sales at these retailers are growing fast – and brands are paying attention. Inside Fashion takes a closer look at: 📌Why warehouse clubs are grabbing share 📌How they choose which apparel brands to carry 📌What brands can learn from their model "Why Warehouse Clubs are the New Apparel Power Players". https://lnkd.in/gh-VQdMC #WarehouseClubs #apparelsalesgrowth #retailopportunities

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An article from 1997 that's still shaping supply chain conversations in 2025? More than 25 years ago, Marshall Fisher wrote “What Is the Right Supply Chain for Your Product?”—a piece that feels just as relevant in today’s era of AI, nearshoring, and constant disruption. Fisher’s insight was elegantly simple: 1. Functional products need efficient supply chains. 2. Innovative products need responsive supply chains. Sounds obvious? Maybe. But many businesses still get this wrong—and pay the price in the form of stockouts, excess inventory, or margin leakage. From fashion retail to electronics to FMCG, aligning product type with supply chain strategy remains one of the most impactful levers for performance. #SupplyChain #HBRClassics #MarshallFisher #OperationsStrategy #BusinessFundamentals #LinkedInNewsIndia #AIInSupplyChain #Innovation #Logistics #Resilience #SupplyChainDesign

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"For chief supply chain officers, the decision at hand is whether to continue squeezing efficiency from a model creaking under the weight of global upheaval or embrace a new model built for resilience, responsiveness, and intelligent automation. The latter is admittedly ambitious, but it is increasingly attainable with today’s technology." - Ashish Chaturvedi, HFS Research 💯 INDUSTRY 5 (i5) is designed and built for resilience, responsiveness, and intelligent automation. i5 is NOT a 'replica' of traditional systems. It's a ground up re-imagination and re-invention by a team that understands HOW to embrace the inherent complexities, and WHY some of the accumulated 'complications' of legacy systems should be discarded. i5 accomplishes same SCM objectives and outcomes that were promised for decades - but without all the excess "weight".

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Watched this "The Cube" interview with Duncan Alexander CEO Blue Yonder. Duncan makes good points of making decisions holistically in supply chain and business networks and blames past decades of point solutions... He also take credit that his "best of breed" solutions are totally integrated eliminating "batch" data transfers. Counter to Duncan and why you have to be a think really hard about buying from this company if you are serious about creating real competitive and economic advantage ? 1. Why as the PE firm and leaders of Blue Yonder spent last 20 years selling "point solutions" ... now want to be a solution to the DISASTER in supply chain tech they led in creating 2. Yes Duncan a typical supply chain network will have hundreds if not thousand of application that need to exchange data. THEY WILL NEVER ALL COME FROM ONE COMPANY OR PLATFORM (ala Blue Yonder). So instead of preaching your few dozen apps are integrated why don't you invest in REAL asynchronous, different time, different place different ontology synchronization (ala like Palintir) so your customers supply chain networks can actually "talk". Request and promise, synchronize ? Duncan mentions he has a background in economics. I would highly suggest he crack open Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" and work to enable "The Invisible Hand" not the totalitarian iron fist of collaboration :) The synchronization needed in supply chain networks is "voluntary, spontaneous, collaboration" not something programmed by an IT wonk dictating process and function generally never worked in the field of manufacturing / supply chain !!!! These big supply chain technology companies who use their capital to continue to promulgate "Hotel California" technology and lock in revenue models. This behavior is not just misleading it is outright FRAUD to someone with any real experience developing and applying S&OP / supply chain technology to create value. Moreover it has and continues to seriously damage Western industrial production manufacturing competitiveness as well as seriously damages Western free market systems ! https://lnkd.in/dvDJcmmu

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