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The supply chain tips that made Moose Toys a “Walmart Supplier of the Year”

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Headline: The supply chain tips that made Moose Toys Walmart’s Supplier of the Year. It’s no accident that Moose Toys was awarded Walmart Toy Supplier of the Year at the retailer’s annual supply chain conference earlier this year. The key is that there is a lot of flexibility within Walmart’s supply chain.

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Inventory and forecast data from retailers: After your product ships (Part 2)

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Part 1 of this series highlighted four of the most important retailer data points that suppliers need to maintain an efficient supply chain and maximize sales opportunities: Unit Sales (Net), Dollar Sales (Net), Price, and Retailer COGS. Weeks of Supply. For a more detailed explanation, check out Part 1 here.

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After your product ships (Part 1): Data retailers share and why it’s important

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monitoring what happens to product after it leaves your warehouse is integral to maintaining an efficient supply chain and maximizing sales opportunities. But out of that weekly or daily data deluge, what are the crucial metrics? Subscribe to the Alloy blog to get automatically notified when it’s available!

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An Interview with Michael Hutzli, Engineering

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Michael Hutzli is an engineering team lead in Alloy’s Vancouver office. Before joining Alloy a bit over three years ago, he worked as a software engineer at Addepar in Mountain View and at AdNovum in Zurich, Switzerland. Why did you join Alloy? There were a few different factors that came together in my decision to join Alloy.

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Amazon Retail Analytics Basic vs. Premium: What’s the value?

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Today we start with looking at brands selling through Amazon Vendor Central, Amazon’s first-party vendor platform , where you’re selling items in bulk to Amazon and transferring product ownership to them (like you would any other retailer), so the product is noted as “Ships from and sold by Amazon.”

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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Supply Chain Shaman

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change.

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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Supply Chain Shaman

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change.