Best practices and a disciplined workforce can help you prepare for changes as they occur. You can't plan for everything, but your operations plans should include enough flexible tools to allow you to adapt to changing conditions. At a time when many material handling and logistics operations normally would be ramping up for the seasonal consumer buying peak, most supply chains aren't experiencing the historical surge in volumes. In fact, that surge may be largely relegated to history as the retail sector points to lower-than-traditional peak seasons for the last few years.
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