Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 7, 2021

Growing up with a father who developed inventory management software for a living spawned some interesting conversations around the dinner table. It hasn’t been lost here at Herlitz Inventory Management! Since 2009, when Herlitz Inventory Management was founded, annual inflation has been below 3 percent in the US.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 28, 2013

Historically, businesses have used one of two extremes for inventory management: push-based or pull-based. Push-based inventory management uses demand forecast to manage inventory and replenish from the supply base. The pull-based method relies on the ability to replenish the “pulled” demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. After six months of analysis, we decided the best fit was the combination of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital. During the presentation, I squirmed uncomfortably in my seat. The reason?

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In addition, the much-publicized inventory issues that many retailers are dealing with are also resulting in interest in returns management. Based on surveys that RLA has done in the past year, most returns are handled in-house and are often done in the same distribution centers where store/e-commerce inventory is kept.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 6, 2022

Cambridge Capital was founded in 2009 as the investment affiliate of BG Strategic Advisors (www.bgsa.com), the advisor of choice for a large, growing number of supply chain CEOs. Cambridge Capital leverages BGSA’s unique approach to strategy-led investment banking for the supply chain.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Maybe the one good thing to come out of it was some companies figured out how they could survive with lower inventories. In 2009, I’m sure most we’re thinking, “How much worse could it get?”. Inventories were stranded as supply chains scrambled to understand the impact on their customers. Some suppliers weren’t so lucky.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Nineteen of the 200 companies met the performance criteria of improving operating margin, inventory turns, and ROIC together in concert for the years of 2006-2013 or 2009-2013. However, due to a variety of factors, companies are losing ground on driving progress on both inventory turns and operating margin.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In September 2021, Associated Grocers of New England signed with Herlitz Inventory Management to improve upon its existing purchasing system and to further advance its goal of serving the needs of independent retail grocers of every store size and format. Carl Herlitz, President and CEO of Herlitz Inventory Management Inc.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 13, 2015

business inventories flat, inventory-to-sales ratio highest since 2009 (Reuters). Institute for Supply Management data indicated that growth in production, orders, and inventory slowed in January…January 2015 freight shipments were up 5.6 percent, the biggest decline since March 2009, after falling 1.0

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EazyStock

MARCH 14, 2023

Rapid cost increases, interest rate hikes and reduced demand require more effective inventory management and forecasting attention. What the last recession taught us An article from McKinsey & Company (2022) analyzed the performance of about 40 publicly traded distribution companies during the 2007-2009 recession.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2020

Arntzen, the former executive director of the supply chain management program at MIT, recently republished an article he penned 2009, during the Great Recession. This year’s fall in output would be far more severe than the last recession, when the world economy contracted by less than 1 percent between 2008 and 2009.”

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

A new study by the SupplyChainDigest analyzing the main components of working capital: Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO), and Days Payables Outstanding (DPO) revealed an uptick in DIO. New Study Shows a Rise in US Company Inventories. This and much more, in your Monday supply chain briefing from Arkieva.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

MARCH 30, 2023

signed with Herlitz Inventory Management for its buying team. The Amarillo, Texas-based grocery distributor plans to roll out the HIMPACT solution to its full team of buyers in the coming months to begin reaping its cost-saving and inventory-optimizing rewards. Both the Herlitz Inventory Management team and the Affiliated Foods Inc.

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Unleashed

MARCH 21, 2023

New research suggests that manufacturers will be able to significantly improve cash flow as they recover from the inventory crisis of 2022. Last year, data from 4,500 manufacturers using Unleashed inventory management software revealed firms were typically spending twice as much on stock as they were before the pandemic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

In our analysis, only one out of ten companies successfully improves operating margins and inventory turns at the same time. When this happens, we find that the organization is more aligned and perform(s) better on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter –growth, inventory turns, operating margin, Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (We

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Unleashed

JUNE 18, 2019

To paint a picture, let’s look back on the peanut butter recall in the United States in 2008-2009. The peanut factory’s inventory stock was contaminated with salmonella and the company’s production chain sent it onwards. Check reviews for quality and ask if they have had any issues with their inventory stock.

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C3 Solutions

JULY 22, 2020

But it was really the development of innovative material handling systems in the mid-20th century that prompted the need for ways to keep track of more densely stored goods and higher levels of inventory. With the concurrent innovation in computing technology, inventory tracking systems were created that could generate automated reports.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014. In the period of 2008-2009, both supply chains made some major shifts. It is a strong downward trend.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 10, 2021

Cambridge Capital was founded in 2009 as the investment affiliate of BG Strategic Advisors (www.bgsa.com), the advisor of choice for a large, growing number of supply chain CEOs. Cambridge Capital leverages BGSA’s unique approach to strategy-led investment banking for the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

While the performance rankings were based on comparisons of inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013, the concept is that to be a supply chain leader you must outperform and drive improvement. We find that this is true of too few companies. Supply Chain Design.

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Logility

OCTOBER 3, 2016

One could argue that Machine Learning could contribute to meeting cost, revenue and customer service goals, but clearly there’s more focus today on basic supply chain planning capabilities like Demand Planning, Inventory Optimization, Sales & Operations Planning, and Supply Planning and Optimization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

In our work on the Supply Chains to Admire report , we tracked the progress of manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies for the period of 2006 to 2013 and 2009-2013. We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

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RELEX Solutions

AUGUST 15, 2016

Picadeli , which has over 1,500 salad bars in Sweden, Finland and Denmark, has chosen RELEX’s supply chain management system to handle its inventory management and replenishment. Previously Picadeli’s inventory and replenishment management was largely run manually. Picadeli is part of the Green Food Group and it employs 70 persons.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

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. The impact may surprise us. Today, we have younger leaders driving clicks on the keyboards.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Since this festival was first initiated in November of 2009, involvement among major online shopping platforms has expanded within and outside of China. However, reports of this year’s event and equivalent shopper and gross merchandise volumes (GMV) appear to be very muted.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

According to the April report commentary , the industry remains hopeful in new signs indicating that retailers and manufacturers are getting closer to working off the overall glut of inventories that resulted in 2022. Further indicated was: “ whether or not we have hit bottom of rates is unclear.”

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QAD

JUNE 8, 2021

Very similar to the crisis in 2008-2009 and much to the surprise of industry analysts, automotive demand came back much quicker than expected. Insufficient inventory visibility throughout the supply chain. see Figure 2) was added in response to shortages and disruptions that occurred in 2008-2009. In addition to 6.2.1.7,

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

Also highlighted was that purchasing activity, stocks of purchases and finished goods inventories collectively rose in July. There are signs of new orders softening- cited in 16 percent of general comments, compared to 17 percent in June- as panelists are increasingly concerned about excessive inventories and record high lead times.”. .

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JANUARY 25, 2016

With manufacturing falling at the fastest rate since 2009, it’s no surprise to see truck stocks plunging, and truck builders cutting back on staff. Headline: Intermodal Cargo Falls in 4Q for First Time Since 2009. Headline: Bloated Inventories May Slow Port Activity. Rail and Multimodal.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

MAY 4, 2023

selected HIMPACT by Herlitz Inventory Management as its new purchasing system in February 2023. Herlitz Inventory Management (HIM), leading innovator in scientific demand forecasting, replenishment, and optimization, announced that Krasdale Foods Inc. Krasdale Foods Inc. Gus Lebiak, President and COO of Krasdale Foods Inc.,

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. Further concerning was that the volume of warehouse finished goods inventories rose to the greatest extent in four months. percentage point increase in March while the Inventories sub-index dipped to the contraction value of 47.5,

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Nineteen of the 200 companies met the performance criteria of improving operating margin, inventory turns, and ROIC together in concert for the years of 2006-2013 or 2009-2013. However, due to a variety of factors, companies are losing ground on driving progress on both inventory turns and operating margin.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 27, 2021

The majority of the people working within it were inventory logisticians, not supply chain logisticians. In 2017, the composition of the SNS inventory was largely determined by the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE), which issued a strategic plan outlining the key areas for inventory investment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2017

Only 12% of public companies are making improvement during the period of 2009-2015 in both operating margin and inventory despite spending an average of 1.7% Over the last decade, managing costs in the supply chain is becoming more and more difficult. of revenues on Information Technology (IT).

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

The Company was my client for many years at AMR Research, and when I look at Mark’s slides for the webinar, I see many of the elements that we heatedly debated in the period of 2009-2010. The supply chain needs an effective perpetual inventory signal in order to manage out-of-stocks and campaigns/promotions. It is not an easy answer.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 17, 2022

In this way, in 2009, one such money, known as Bitcoin, and learning about Bitcoin cash, was spread out as cryptographic cash. State-run administrations customarily have command over the cash inventory available to control and defilement. Bitcoin Not Equivalent to Other Cryptographic Cash! The Bitcoin Blockchain is open.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

AUGUST 25, 2022

In January 2022, Lipman Brothers officially signed with Herlitz Inventory Management to gain a more robust purchasing and replenishment system that would help reduce inventory, increase efficiency, and increase sales without increasing year-over-year inventory. Lipman Brothers has deep roots in wine and spirits distribution.

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