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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Micro-Warehouse Provider Pivots as Retail Consumer Market Shifts. since 2004, hit an all-time high of 4,586 points in late March. The CNBC article states, “ As delivery times and consumer demand rose this year, retailers responded by ordering inventory earlier than usual. And now to this week’s logistics news….

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Inventory. My takeaway?

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The Internet of Things in the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

… Traditionally, inventory counts [have been] a complex exercise done manually about once a year but RFID technology enables retailers to monitor stock monthly bringing accuracy from 60% to over 90%.” An NFC reader is a tool that can be integrated into the warehouse management picking verification system. in 2004 to $0.38

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Struggling with Multi-Echelon Inventory Adoption

Arkieva

I came into the field of supply chain management in 2004. 2006-2009 I did a PhD on Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization. 2006-2009 I did a PhD on Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization. Though benefits are clear, multi-echelon inventory adoption has been very slow. Why is multi-echelon inventory adoption limited?

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Walmart Supply Chain: Building a Successful Integrated Supply Chain for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

SCMDOJO

By employing these technologies, Walmart gains valuable insights into customer buying behavior, sales trends, and inventory levels. The ability to analyze this data enables the retail giant to make informed decisions on product procurement, inventory management, and demand forecasting.

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Innovation with Reverse Logistics (Part 1 of 2)”.

ModusLink Corporation

It has its first definition published only in the beginning of the nineties by the Council of Logistics Management (Bri-2004, S. Products are received from the end-customer and transported back to the warehouse in question. 4) and thus still represents a young sector of Logistics. Figure 1(The Reverse Logistics Process) (Chi-2018).