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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. The taxonomies and goals are different.

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Grocery Shopping and Inflation, Part One: Impact on Grocers

Enterra Insights

Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported, “The food-at-home (grocery store or supermarket food purchases) CPI increased 1.1 According to Meyersohn, “Food manufacturers and grocers have faced higher costs for commodities, labor, transportation and other expenses during the pandemic. In November, the U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 27 – April 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

As a 17-year periodical, these cicadas have lived underground in wingless nymph form since 2004, about a foot or two down, feeding on sap from tree roots. President Biden introduces $2 trillion infrastructure package. The cicadas rise up over a two-week period after the soil temperature has reached 65 degrees.

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Inventory Management Strategies of 7 Successful Firms

Unleashed

Here we break down the inventory management strategies of seven successful manufacturers and retailers around the globe. Samsung’s inventory management strategy Samsung is one of the world’s largest manufacturers, meaning managing their inventory is an enormous and complex task. Gap’s inventory management strategy Gap Inc.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. Process industry leaders–chemical, consumer packaged goods, food/beverage–have greater issues using data, with software usability, and building effective connections to align and build effective relationships with trading partners.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. Based on reporting from the Wall Street Journal, the company hired Morgan Stanley to shop the company and package it for sale in 2014 with an expected evaluation of 800M$. It is clear.

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Doing Good is Important for Attracting Millennial and Gen Z Consumers

Enterra Insights

The first prefer ‘companies that reduce their energy use, reduce their packaging and provide safe products’ and represent about 34% of the U.S. times more likely to make a purchase and 1.8 “Dove has a long-standing commitment to creating a world where beauty is a source of confidence, and not anxiety.