Automotive Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Inventory Research 
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 4, 2018
At the session, we discussed why companies have not made more progress on inventory management. In the case of Apparel and Automotive industries there are slight improvements, but they have shifted inventories to suppliers. Days of Inventory Pre and Post-Recession. IT View of the Current State of Inventory.
QAD
MARCH 30, 2023
As I discussed in a recent article in RFID Journal , RFID technology has changed a lot since 2005 and could be the secret to ensuring greater visibility and inventory accuracy this year. and bring inventory accuracy up to an impressive 99.9%. What is RFID Technology? RFID tags can reduce out of stocks by up to 80.3%
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Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
JANUARY 3, 2024
Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. The automotive industries–with the poorest capabilities to plan and manage suppliers–will suffer the most.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 3, 2017
As a result, supply chain leaders focus on unrealistic goals of inventory or costs, they will throw the system out of balance. To illustrate the point, here we share snapshots from four different value chains: automotive, healthcare, consumer, and technology. Growth in car buying stimulated the value chain. As shown in Figure 1.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 7, 2016
It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. The DuPont supply chain supplied products and services into the housing and automotive supply chains.
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 1, 2014
As hospitals adopted consignment planning programs, inventory progress slowed. The turns are the lowest of any industry, and despite investments in technologies and processes, inventory turns have only improved 3%, and Cash-T0-Cash (C2C) cycles have declined 4%. This precipitous drop in margin hurts. Companies are feeling pain.
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