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Smart Warehousing Technology, Techniques + Best Practices

ShipBob

Traditionally, a typical warehouse was nothing more than a wide open building with space to receive and store inventory. . Fast forward to present day and you’ll find that ecommerce warehousing is equipped with robotics, logistics automation , IoT technology, and real-time inventory management software.

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Unleashed SME Supply Chain Resilience Roundtable: Improving Cash Flow in a Manufacturing Business

Unleashed

Product businesses are holding more stock than ever before, creating new cash flow problems for manufacturers. Tim Wright: Founder of two medical equipment manufacturing companies and currently MD of Langcroft Consultancy – specialists in digital transformation. Review how you manufacture things,” Tim says.

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How AI is transforming manufacturing Part 2: Inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturers have incurred significant financial losses due to supply chain disruptions and the subsequent inventory management challenges. With companies producing more and more products worldwide, the issue of keeping track of enormous amounts of parts and materials used in the manufacturing process has grown increasingly complex.

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6 Reasons Why Manufacturers Need ERP for Unified Business Insight

OptiProERP

For manufacturers, it’s critical to have a sharp eye on what is happening both with customers and across the company to keep moving in a positive direction. Below are six reasons manufacturers benefit from using ERP to achieve unified business insight. With inventory available for manufacturing, customer deliveries can be made on time.

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Unilever’s Relentless Commitment to S-Curve Transformations

Logistics Viewpoints

This multinational operates 280 factories and 500 warehouses, that source raw materials from 52,000 suppliers in over 150 countries, processes 25 million customer orders annually, that are then shipped to customers in over 190 nations. Such a large company, they have over 127,000 employees globally, clearly has a massive supply chain.

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The 10 inventory management trends to watch for in 2022

Unleashed

With that in mind, here’s our pick of the 10 most important inventory management trends for 2022. 10 inventory management for 2022: 1. Multi-warehousing efficiencies. Warehouse automation. Accurately plotting costs based on live data. Accurately plotting costs based on live data. Inventory forecasting.

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Decentralized Warehouse Models Offer Innovation Opportunity

RFgen

Decentralizing a business’ warehouse setup creates overhead and complexity that has long left companies working to bring resources into a central location. This may be a simple version of a distributed warehouse model, but even this method is highly reliant on careful collaboration between supply chain and warehouse managers.