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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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Using Logistics Software Solutions to Manage Inventory in a Downturn

C3 Solutions

The Federal Reserve has put the brakes on spending in the US in a bid to control inflation, raising the prospect of a recession that could be more prolonged than the painful economic downturn that followed the financial crisis of 2008.

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Supply Chain Optimization for Consumer Packaged Goods Inventory

Logility

Managing consumer packaged goods inventory is challenging at the best of times, and it can be debilitating during times of local or international disruption. An advanced inventory planning and optimization solution allows these companies to set and maintain precise stock targets across a global network. Reductions in Profit Growth.

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From Globalization to Glocalization

Enterra Insights

” I started writing about the movement towards regionalization back in 2008. He writes, “It’s true that the era of ‘hyper-globalization’ from roughly 1992 to 2008, where trade grew markedly faster than global gross domestic product, is over. … Globalization has certainly not failed.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. In the research for my inventory optimization report, the lowest level of satisfaction with multi-tier inventory optimization is with clients of the SAP inventory solution (previously purchased from SmartOps).

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SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

Supply Chain Shaman

Instead, in the SanDisk journey , they adjusted the speed of response to their customer segments, and actively designing inventory postponement strategies. The journey began with a one size fits all approach in 2008, and the policies evolved over the course of the last seven years. In fact, the teams ignore the forecast. Does it work?

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Recession-proof Supply Chains with FTZs

QAD

When the recession of 2008 hit, many would not have guessed the industry would survive. It wasn’t just the upholstered furniture industry that turned to the FTZ program during the 2008 recession. Leveraging FTZs for the next recession Since 2008, the FTZ program has become significantly easier to access.