Herlitz Inventory Management

MARCH 24, 2022

Two HIMPACT customers have already rented extra warehouse space just to store forward bought inventory. Two HIMPACT customers have already rented extra warehouse space just to store forward bought inventory. If ever there was a time to take advantage of forward buying, this is it! How Much Extra Inventory Should You Buy?

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The bane of e-commerce is the large percentage of purchased items that are returned. As noted in the initial installment of this article, Elise Dopson reports, “Data suggests that 20% of online-bought products are returned, compared to just 9% of items bought in a brick-and-mortar store.”[1] Making the Best of a Growing Challenge.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2023

His passion for excellence and commitment to his craft ensure that Wagner continues to make waves in the industry, one strategic move at a time. Joe Oliaro is the Vice President of Sales and Chief Real Estate Officer at Wagner Logistics , a leading provider of supply chain solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

On a call, Pete gave me a hard time. Was it that Kraft was not clear in its definition of supply chain excellence (which was true) or not clear on how to best use the system (which was also true)? I don’t think that he was clear in his mind on framing the problem, but he was just sure that planning was not as effective.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Supply chain planning is not just for the big boys. At Dow, Mr. Baker had Purchasing experience in raw materials, and logistics for their plastics supply chain. S&OP is the key process in effectively balancing supply – what can be made – with demand – what customers want to buy.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Ah, the joy of shopping.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The output was just not helpful. We have too hard-wired solutions bolted into IT architectures to enable the flexibility needed by business leaders during times of high variability. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Over time, this changed. It will not be over soon.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Today, more than 1% of the world’s container ships are stuck off major ports. Unloading times are double and costs are triple. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Supply chain shortages abound. Reflection. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

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. Asset relocation takes time. I share the questions in bold and my answers follow.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, more than $25 billion was invested in supply chain companies in just the first three quarters of the year. The company buying his company, EXE Technologies, is now infamous among those who have followed the WMS market. We asked for $2 million to buy more robots and then shortly thereafter another $4m.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2019

Editor’s Note: This article is from Steve Bettwy , Vice President – Quality and Business Continuity, Operational Excellence, and Continuous Improvement at Direct Supply. Amazon announced that it shipped 5 billion items through Prime alone in 2017, and some analysts estimate it will ship over 4 billion packages in 2018.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF transforms those purchased products into over 2,000 products. According to Mr. Sobeck, the SupplyOn solution means that when you need to “register a supplier or to update their information, you only need to do that once instead of several times.” Which ship are the components being shipped on. at the ZF Group.

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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. Asset relocation takes time. The impact varies by supply chain sector and value chain.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 24, 2015

It never ceases to surprise me when I hear how many enterprises entrust a mission-critical task to the desktop spreadsheet software Excel®. So what’s wrong with Excel? For example, with Excel you can’t easily: Integrate information from many sources. The supply chain of today is just too complex to be modeled in a spreadsheet.”.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2023

Your Comprehensive Guide to Production Planning Software The benefits of production planning software vs scheduling are about the granularity of the plan: capacity plans (or master production schedules) are not granular and factor in less granular things, like high level capacity, forecasts, inventory, and transfer times.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Traditionally the holiday shopping season has been a make-or-break time for retailers. Consumers are demanding faster shipping, better visibility and excellent customer experience from the places they shop. .”[2] And Coresight is expecting that percentage to continue to shrink.”[1]

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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?”

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Swimsuits and dresses for weddings—you never buy just one,” says Joanie Demer, co-founder of Krazy Coupon Lady. People who buy portable generators during weather emergencies use them until the emergencies have ended, and then those go back too. Brick-and-mortar stores also allow shoppers to return unwanted purchases.

Reverse Logistics 75

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

As of January 1, 2022, it was taking a company an average of 73 days to deliver goods to truck or rail carriers after booking with an ocean carrier and completing the cross-ocean journey, according to E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index. Just take a look at what’s been happening over the last 3-4 months. points from 44.8

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The two most significant factors were a rise in time between the booking to gate in at the port, up 43%, and the ocean transit time, up 36%. Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index). in the second year of the pandemic.

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QAD

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Computer chips were recently in short supply and the shortage list has included children’s pain relievers, EV components, eggs and, of course, toilet paper at times. For companies concerned with operational excellence — and profitability — this needs to change and many need to address global trade management complexities.

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ShipBob

MARCH 2, 2023

How people feel when they interact with your business influences their buying behavior. A retail experience refers to how customers interact with your brand and how it makes them feel, which influences their decision to buy or not to buy. So, how exactly do you create an exceptional retail experience?

Retail 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The two most significant factors were a rise in time between the booking to gate in at the port, up 43%, and the ocean transit time, up 36%. Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index). in the second year of the pandemic.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Parallelly, expectations around the overall purchasing experience have also grown steeper. A 2021 McKinsey study, that when delivery times are too long, almost half of omnichannel consumers will shop elsewhere. To put this in perspective, coal accounted for 40% of overall CO2 emissions, releasing an all-time high of 15.3

Logistics Network Optimization Software 130

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Logility

APRIL 9, 2020

Just look back over the last couple of years. Error-prone spreadsheets were never designed to handle the multi-dimensional relationships and constraints involved in today’s supply chains or to provide the advance numeric or visual real-time analytics required to develop an optimal response quickly.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases. It’s rare for ocean liners like Maersk to live in the same category as tech giants like Amazon or Alibaba.

Price Reduction 177

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“May you live in interesting times,” widely attributed as a Chinese curse, some claim this as a blessing; whichever side you take, this is exactly what’s happening in the supply chain world since 2020, and it looks like we will be living with this blessing/curse for a while longer. Composability as an Enabler of Agility & Resilience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. The majority of make the stock items are tied to just-in-time or other supply chain value-added service program with their customers. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 27, 2024

It is also a means to maintain a competitive edge and operational excellence. In a gist, maintaining your Mac’s health is just as important as choosing the right software. That could include AI-driven analytics, real-time tracking, and integration with loT devices. This comprehensive guide highlights software that stands out.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. The output from the monthly process is an updated plan that balances demand with supply over a 24-month time horizon. The company ships directly to customers and also to distributors.

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Locus

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

customers now have the entire marketplace at their fingertips and possess greater purchasing power than ever before. will not just cost you customer experience but also future business. say delivery speed is what makes for a good purchase experience. say delivery speed is what makes for a good purchase experience.

Retail 52

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Global supply chain disruption, rapid technological evolution, changing buying and selling habits – wholesale distributors have had to deal with some rapid and radical changes over the past couple of years. In 2017 it showed the world the D2C trend was coming by slashing its 30,000 retail partners down to just 40. billion to $64,334.41

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

The thought of a pandemic killing over 350,000 people globally and over 100,000 in the United States in just three months is mind-numbing. It was risky, but my determined mother took a chance. She believed in science and patted my shoulder reassuringly as I rolled up my sleeve. During my toddler years, polio fear gripped the nation.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The capacity crunch is starting to take hold of the shipping industry. However, all crunches have time-specific causes as well, and this time, Hurricane Harvey, Irma, and Maria are to blame for a significant part of it. Focus on Service, Not Just Freight Rates. Click Here. Expand Your Carrier Options.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 8, 2022

When it’s time to move, all that stuff has to go somewhere. As a result, it often makes more sense to buy a new mattress when moving to a new home. There are some things to remember when purchasing a mattress. Second, take advantage of free shipping offers or find a mattress sale to get the best deal possible.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 3, 2021

This increase in pet ownership—along with panic buying—has created a huge surge in demand for pet food. This increase in pet ownership—along with panic buying—has created a huge surge in demand for pet food. exceeded $100 billion for the first time in the US, with?sales tended to buy their?pet million UK households?have

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The application of data can help shippers gain control of shipping costs and make informed decisions, and the top freight data trends for 2019 exemplify how the use of a transportation management system (TMS) can further this cause. As omnichannel shopping becomes the standard for consumers, the use of freight data will excel.

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