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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Recession?

Enterra Insights

There have been eight official recessions (including the one that began in December 2007) in the last 50 years. Challenge 1: Customers Cancel Orders and Finished Goods Inventory Builds Up. Challenge 3: Raw Inventory Builds Up as Material Keeps Arriving. ”[5]. This recession is different.

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Friends with Fitbits: Fitness Tracking and Taking Supply Chain Planning to the Next Level

Talking Logistics

We exercised, we had fun, we supported each other. We focus on reducing miles driven, making a delivery in hours instead of days, minimizing inventories, or increasing the utilization of our workforce. Ron joined Quintiq in 2007 and leads a marketing team that focuses on global campaigns, partners, and analyst relations.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

Arrange your inventory based on how often you need to use it. View the full post or view the snippet below: Over the last 5 years, I have seen many companies launching inventory reduction programs. They tend to move towards following standards and exercise rigorous governance regimes. Plan an Efficient Layout for the Warehouse.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

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.