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Inventory Management Excellence: Some Companies to Learn From

Logistics Bureau

Inventory management is a crucial aspect of supply chain management, and effective strategies can help businesses reduce costs, improve customer service, and increase profits. But what does a great inventory management strategy look like? At that point, each SKU will be taken to any convenient storage location in the warehouse.

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The Evolving Warehouse: Prepare Your Warehouse for Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

Construction of manufacturing plants and new warehouse sites were also postponed or canceled entirely due to market uncertainty. According to the CBRE Global E-commerce Outlook 2021 report , e-commerce growth will require another 330 million square feet of warehouse space in the United States by 2025.

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Use Forward Buying to Gain Profit During Inflation

Herlitz Inventory Management

In a blog post from July 2021 regarding rising inflation , we explained why inflation is terrible for most people but is wonderful for wholesalers. Two HIMPACT customers have already rented extra warehouse space just to store forward bought inventory. If ever there was a time to take advantage of forward buying, this is it!

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Is it too Early For 2022 Predictions?

Logistics Viewpoints

Many major challenges of 2021—capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortage—are rolling over into 2022 and, in addition, the environment and machine learning are becoming more important for logistics and supply chain professionals. Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies.

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REPOST: 5 Trends Shaping Logistics with Ben Gordon

The Logistics of Logistics

3PLex was then purchased by Maersk. To address the returns and reverse logistics challenge, companies like ReverseLogix have created reverse logistics technology that reduces costs and enhances the customer’s experience, while increasing inventory recovery and visibility into the reverse logistics life-cycle. Ben Gordon.

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Lessons Learned from 2021 Peak Season for 2022 Planning

Intelligent Audit

“Demand was greater than available inventory” was a common theme in many retailers’ earnings announcements in early Q1 of 2022. After a strong start to the quarter in inventory receipts and product sell-through, we experienced unexpected inventory receipt slides in key categories due to extended port and transportation delays.

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5 Inventory Management Tips for Manufacturing SMBs!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! Inventory management is a holistic and logical methodology for handling both raw materials and finished products. Raw material inventory management represents a vital stage in the successful supervision of any manufacturing company’s supply chain. Subscribe Here!