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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Forecast: Core rate 1.4% LTCM crisis. Glass-Steagall repealed. Tech bubble burst. Bush tax cut, 9/11 attacks. War on Terror. Katrina, Bankruptcy Act. Bernanke became Fed Chair. Bank crisis. Financial crisis. Deflation in oil and gas prices. Core inflation rate 1.7%. Core rate 2.2%. Core rate 2.3%. Impact of COVID. source: thebalance.com.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

However, it is essential to react quickly in order to prevent harmful effects due to the overload of the operational system (Véronneau and Cimon, 2007) and also to preserve a certain agility in for the Supply Chain. Contracting to assure supply : How to share demand forecasts in a supply chain”, Management science, vol. et Fischer M.,

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

VTech drove significant improvement in operating margin through the recession of 2007-2009 and then drove improvement in both inventory margin and operating margin for the period of 2010-2012 with some regression in the period of 2013-2015. The first presented in June 2001 outlined where we were in supply chain and what we needed to do.

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Dissecting the Headwinds and Tailwinds of Digital Transformation

Supply Chain Shaman

I liken it to the ecommerce frenzy of 2001. Public markets reward growth, and the average growth for companies for the period of 2011-2016 was 1/3 the rate of growth for the period of 1986-2007. In contrast, she forecasts growth rates in the emerging economies of Europe and Asia at 4.8%. A digital fever abounds. Fear abounds.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

Further, if one does a Google search on data science groups in private industry, numerous large industry groups formed just since 2007 appear. This problem starts with sales forecasting, which in e-commerce is even more difficult than at the store-level.