2007 2016 Inventory Procurement 
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 9, 2021
Rise in Inventories. Less Effective at Inventory Management. Inventories grew twenty days over the decade. Yes, companies held more inventory (measured in days of inventory) in 2019 than at the start of the 2007 recession. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory. Belief in efficient procurement.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
This is despite the purchase of Terra Technology Demand Sensing and Multi-tier Inventory Management (MEIO) in 2014 for 12-14M$ (including implementation). After implementation, in 2016, no business or product owners were appointed. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007.
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Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. It’s kind of a wild west, and the most successful players being those who can harness Omnichannel distribution, and avoid excess inventory that will leave them in the dust. Americans spent more money in restaurants and bars than grocery stores in 2016.
Logistics Bureau
MAY 24, 2019
The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. The only option was to try to reduce levels of inventory, which, up to that point, had been kept very high to support a nine-week order cycle.
NC State SCRC
MAY 11, 2020
Supply chain resilience generally means the ability to manage risk and be best positioned to respond and even gain advantage from disruptions (Sheffi, 2007). [1] Resilience is the easy way out – it involves carrying a lot of inventory and redundancies in the supply chain that are wasteful. Supply Chain Management Review, 14(6), pp.
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