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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

Downsizing inventories over the past decade crippled the response.” In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. Days of Inventory Peer Group Across Time Periods.

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Delivering the Drinks: Streamlining Beverage Transportation with Kristina Bernarducci

The Logistics of Logistics

About Wreaths Across America Wreaths Across America is an American nonprofit organization established in 2007 by wreath producer Morrill Worcester, assisted by veterans and truckers. Its primary activity is distributing Veterans wreaths for placement on graves in military cemeteries.

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Reinventing Supply Chains: Focus on Human Factors

Supply Chain Shaman

The lessons learned during pandemic and the economic recession of 2007 are quickly forgotten when economies heat-up. They have forgotten the lessons of the 2007 recession and the pandemic. Time to Align the Supply Chain to Market Potential in the 2007 Financial Crisis The reason? The impact is exponential.

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Reflection: The Journey to be Market Driven

Supply Chain Shaman

The organization failed to anticipate the downturn in the cereal market during the 2007 recession, resulting in a loss of consumer confidence in the organic product segment. They never leveraged their point-of-sale data to detect market shifts, and the supply chain organization prioritized cost reduction. The result?

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s Start With a Discussion on Inventory. When we look at table 1, we see burgeoning inventories in some industries and extreme shortages in others. We are not good at inventory management. Inventory Levels Over the Quarters of the Pandemic. Companies struggle to have the right inventories. The end result?

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The ShipBob Story with Dhruv Saxena

The Logistics of Logistics

Dhruv came to America (from India) in 2007 to pursue an undergraduate engineering degree. ShipBob has a network of warehouses connected by a common technology that help their clients to determine optimal inventory placement across the network to improve delivery speeds and reduce shipping costs. Learn More About The ShipBob Story.

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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

Because we call it a supply chain for a reason – each link is connected, so if you rattle one link, you rattle the entire chain, as Boeing famously discovered in 2007 when a bolts and screws shortage delayed their Dreamliner. But the opposite is not true – if you optimize one link, you have not optimized the entire supply chain.