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Welcome 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

The teams in these seats did not experience the down market in 2007 or the start of the market run in 2009. Companies cannot save their way to supply chain excellence with cost-cutting and inventory management — customer back capabilities. In 2019, here are seven trends that I will be tracking: The Horizon? The teams are new.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

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This is despite the purchase of Terra Technology Demand Sensing and Multi-tier Inventory Management (MEIO) in 2014 for 12-14M$ (including implementation). We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. When I asked about the use, the response was: “ We don’t use it.

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Top 6 Wholesale Distribution Trends for 2019

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The rise of China in the past decade coincided with a global economic boom after the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Meanwhile, shipping costs from other countries are likely to trend higher as longer routes are taken. Another drawback to this new sourcing trend is that each country has a comparative advantage for a product.

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Kimberly-Clark Makes Sense of Demand

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Empty shelves send impatient buyers to competitors’ products, while too much inventory can result in unwanted carrying costs. For years, Kimberly-Clark relied on historical data to guide forecasts, but that changed in 2007 when the company began a complete end-to-end overhaul of its supply chain and invested.

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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

The first step in the journey is to analyze balance sheet results and understand industry trends. In our analysis, only one out of ten companies successfully improves operating margins and inventory turns at the same time. The period of 2007-2008 was the great recession. Inventory Turns. A Look at History. Resiliency.

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Evolution of the Warehouse: How it Adapted to E-Commerce and New Technology Trends?

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In addition, the average warehouse’s size since 2007 has increased 143 percent to 184,693 square feet and its height has increased almost four feet higher to 32.3 Knowing when inventory is projected to run out maximizes the chance that the product will be available when customers want it. That’s not a typo.

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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

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Both Kimberly-Clark and P&G are going backwards on operating margin while making progress on inventory turns. As the company spiraled in the updraft of the market, it built inventory. billion in inventory charges in April 2001. Before I begin, let me state that no company is perfect, but here are some general trends.