How hyper-networked supply chains can benefit retailers

Retailers can often need to choose between the costly privilege of supply chain independence, or heavy dependence on retail giants.

However, opening up supply chains for co-operative capacity and infrastructure sharing promises efficiency without dependency. Using a collaborative logics platform such as Quiet offers retailers a more collaborative ‘third way’ to supply and deliver goods.

A new co-operative supply chain model may point the way to a hyper-networked supply chain future, and a third way for retailers stuck between the costly privilege of supply chain independence and heavy dependence on the retail behemoths.

Amazon, Walmart and Target have demonstrated just how much scale matters in retail, both in choice with consumers and the economies of scale of their logistics.

Smaller retailers now increasingly face a stark choice: throw in their lot with one of the behemoths…