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Securing the Pickleball Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Or, alternatively, a company carries too much inventory, storage for excess inventory must be purchased, and cash flows become tight. This warehouse provides inventory storage for goods not yet ordered that will ship later. Mr. Jordan oversees a team of eight that does the demand, inventory, and production planning.

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FMCG Forecasting: Ice Cream, chocolate & pregnancy

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

You will have to bear with me for a while on this one. Do you know that on average 85% of expectant women suffer food cravings during pregnancy? Apparently, the top 5 are:

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FMCG: Costs and Supply Chain Excellence

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

FMCG, Brewing and Pharma companies find it hard enough to forecast what domestic consumers will eat, drink and slap on their skin on a daily basis. If military forecast accuracy and stock levels were the subject of KPIs then the turnover of supply chain people would be very high.

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COVID-19 accelerates four trends and changes within global supply chains

Proxima

Neil Jordan, Principal Consultant of Logistics & Supply Chain at Proxima Group, elaborated on return markets during the webinar and said, “The next 12-18 months bring a prime opportunity for supply chain directors to look at return processes from their online strategy to support the next 3-5 years. How do businesses leverage returns?

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Google Express, Its Supply Chain & Viability

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Aaron Kaplan, Eunice Cho, Jordan Sugar, Poornima Nookala, Shoaib Bharmal, Vishal Vibhandik, and Felipe Caro. The US online grocery market had revenues of $13B in 2015, and forecasts indicate the market will grow to more than $42B in 2016[1]. Amazon Prime Now costs $299 per year, includes free two-hour delivery ($7.99

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7 Social Commerce Examples – And What You Can Learn from Them

Unleashed

Nike: specifically the launch of the Air Jordan III “Tinker” Where? To help launch its new Air Jordan III, and to show off Snapchat’s social commerce functionality, the two brands paired up to create a totally unique purchasing experience for the 2018 NBA All-Stars game after-party. See more: 100% Pure’s Pinterest 4.

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ERP is an Oxymoron

synchrono

Sometime in the 80s, ERP vendors realized if they wanted to target the manufacturing sector, they needed to provide tools to help manufacturers deal with what is arguably their biggest issue: inventory. As Trey Jordan recently wrote in his post Going Lean: Should You Replace Your ERP System? Garbage In/Garbage Out.