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How to Find Business Opportunities Amid the Coronavirus Supply Chain Crisis

ToolsGroup

Apple launched the iPod in 2001 during the dot.com bubble. A system that optimizes inventory (especially in a time of turmoil) can remove excess capital and focus those resources on products in high demand. You can meet the demand of your customers better and gain ongoing goodwill and market share.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. I worked with the organization for a year and scheduled a meeting with Lucas to explain that his policies were the primary issue. In addition, Lucas used inventory as a slush fund to make quarterly earnings. Less Collaborative.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. I worked with the organization for a year and scheduled a meeting with Lucas to explain that his policies were the primary issue. In addition, Lucas used inventory as a slush fund to make quarterly earnings. Less Collaborative.

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How Demand Planning Influences Supply Planning through Predicting Future Demand Patterns

Vanguard Software

And before that, in 2001, Nike also had a demand planning blunder that led to a $100 million loss in sales. Whereas supply planning projects and manages inventory or supply to meet consumer demand. Organizations can then make shrewd business decisions about inventory and production.

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The ROI Challenge for Supply Chain Projects: Lessons from The Trenches by an Aging Jedi Knight

Arkieva

The director of Supply Chain (or inventory, manufacturing, analytics, customer order fulfillment, etc.) Typical suspects are reduced inventory, increased output, lower cycle time, better on-time delivery, among others. Two of my favorites are Kroeger (2014) and John Milne’s IBM application for central planning (2001).

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How Your Business Can Survive (And Even Thrive) in a Recession

Unleashed

Review existing inventory management systems. Fewer than 30% of businesses that lost market share in the downturn of 2001 were able to regain their positions, according to the Bain study. For a more detailed guide on how to pick the best inventory management software for your business, check out our comprehensive guide.

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The End of a Fairy Tale. Part 2.

Supply Chain Shaman

ERP is valuable to improve transactional accuracy, but I can find no evidence that investments in ERP have reduced inventory or improved cash-to-cash cycles. In table 1, I compare ten-year averages (2001-2011) for food manufacturing companies. Multi-tier inventory optimization was a fad in the last decade.