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ScottsMiracle-Gro Improves Distribution System in Sustainability and Customer Service

Supply Chain Network

Since 2009, when ScottsMiracle-Gro began implementing its new distribution model, the Company has reduced the number of miles traveled to ship products to home center customers by approximately one-third. Improve inventory turns at retail by reducing fertilizer order minimums.

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

The bonus incentive programs of the sales teams in software sent my humble West Virginia country girl roots into overdrive. Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel.

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

The bonus incentive programs of the sales teams in software sent my humble West Virginia country girl roots into overdrive. Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel. He saw all inventory as “bad.”

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Taking Risks that Pay Off

BlueYonder

I live just 14 miles from where I grew up, in Richmond, Virginia, and now live in Mechanicsville. However, once Circuit City closed its doors in 2009, I became a stay at home mom for five years. I trained everyone on all the software, including some elements related to inventory and how it was planned for each store.

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Taking Risks that Pay Off

JDA software

I live just 14 miles from where I grew up, in Richmond, Virginia, and now live in Mechanicsville. However, once Circuit City closed its doors in 2009, I became a stay at home mom for five years. I trained everyone on all the software, including some elements related to inventory and how it was planned for each store.