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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. billion this year.

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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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Contingency Planning Amid a Potential Rail Strike

QAD

The other 50% consists mostly of shipping containers carrying smaller consumer goods. Some logistics and shipping businesses have already prepared contingency plans in the event of a rail strike. Inventory management. Management of customer delivery requirements and expectations.

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Target’s Acknowledgement and Plan to Address Excess Inventory

Supply Chain Matters

In our Supply Chain Matters commentaries focused on online customer fulfillment and especially the 2021 holiday fulfilment period, we cautioned retail and consumer goods supply chain management teams to be watchful for the bullwhip effect in inventory planning and replenishment needs to support expected customer demand.

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Vendor Managed Inventory: The Complete Guide

Unleashed

Learn more: What is Inventory Management? Techniques for 2021 What is vendor managed inventory? VMI is an inventory system in which the vendor (a manufacturer or supplier) is responsible for maintaining appropriate levels of inventory for the buyer, who is a retailer who then sells the goods on to the end consumer.

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Amazon’s Fulfillment Network Realignment Implications

Supply Chain Matters

We believe that these inventory management, customer and last-mile fulfillment strategies will have industry wide implications in terms of competitive stakes and cost-to-serve. The goal was the ability to better leverage inventory levels that would be positioned within either hours or a day’s drive from a respective center.

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Initial Estimates of U.S. Holiday Spending- A Mixed Bag

Supply Chain Matters

An initial estimate of this year’s retail holiday spending indicates a mixed bag, depending on either retail industry, consumer goods producer or logistics and transportation industry perspectives. Mastercard SpendingPulse Data Payments processing firm Mastercard Spending Pulse indicated this week that U.S.