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What’s Good for Consumer Goods Manufacturing?

USC Consulting Group

What’s on the road ahead for consumer goods manufacturing? Although the industry is multifaceted and varied, encompassing everything from household goods to food & beverage to apparel and more, most arms of the consumer goods industry are facing similar challenges. Supply chain woes.

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Retail Sales and Operations Teams Need to Up Their Game in Inventory Management Agility and Responsiveness

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters industry specific commentary, we make the observation that retail industry sales and operations planning and demand support teams, given the current state of recent business financial performance, need to up their game in supply network inventory management agility and added responsiveness. .

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Retail After Covid, Part 1: Retail Is Recovering

Enterra Insights

D’Innocenzio explains, “The return to store shopping, highlighted in many retailers’ earnings reports in recent days, offers a big relief in part because shoppers return less when they make their purchases at the store — 8% compared with 25% for online, according to Forrester Research. 3] They are: 1. ” 2.

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Seasonal Inventory and 7 Ways to Manage It Effectively

ToolsGroup

More than ever, seasonal inventory needs to be carefully accounted for during the demand forecasting and inventory planning process , ensuring right-sized inventory that can meet customer expectations while limiting the spend and use of working capital. Benefits of Effective Seasonal Inventory Management.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

Vendor Managed Inventory processes–once hailed as the panacea of demand sensing–largely operate in isolation within sales organizations (of the thirty-three organizations that we interviewed last year, no market leader has connected these demand signals). The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

where products sit”: the inventories of materials, parts, and finished goods stored and being handled in various stages of the supply chain. Until these tragedies occurred, virtually no public information was available concerning apparel companies that were sourcing from the factories involved.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

Until these tragedies occurred, virtually no public information was available concerning apparel companies that were sourcing from the factories involved. Other tools for transparency include publishing sustainability reports, disclosing performance data against goals, to show impacts and progress of all sustainability activities.