Challenges and Key Factors in Omni-Channel Logistics, Zara's Vertically Integrated Supply Chain, and Resilience in Supply Chain

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Answer 1:
The omni-channel logistics enable the business to tailor on how the products are purchased and
delivered so that they can easily meet the demands of the customer. Some of the challenges that
business face are:
a. Lack of Inventory visibility and metrics: In this, the omni-channel logistics aim to know
the inventory status about the distribution center or the retail location. The company
looks forward for promising the next day delivery for the customers who are not able to
follow through. The companies, then, make use of the inventory visibility which is an
accurate forecast for the future demands and to plan about the supply chain activities
properly.
b. The poor visibility for the inventory in transit: The enterprise and the startups are
generally facing the poor visibility issue in inventory for a better transit.
c. Segmented Supply Chain Management: The larger companies have a private warehouse
where the distributed centers need to be managed by different in-house along with the
outsourcing operators that are running on the different set of systems. With this, the key
is also to resolve the supply chain segmentation which is to consolidate the processes.
d. The unreliability of order fulfillment processes (Hübner, Kuhn, and Wollenburg, 2016)
e. Finding the right way of transportation: Here, the major challenge is to find the effective
solution to transport the products without driving up the landed product costs. The
selection is important for the omni-channel logistics.
f. Reverse Logistics: The process of return could be for the products which seam to be
holding initial delivery. The customers are expected to be able to return the products that
they have purchased online. The companies do not offer the ease of return which is