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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. Between 2000 and 2009, the average profit for this industry grew by over 10% year on year, but over the next decade, annual profit growth fell to just 3.2%.

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Unwrapping the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive: Embracing Sustainable Packaging in a Circular Economy

SupplyShift

With a particular focus on plastic pollution and packaging waste , this call to action is not just ethically driven, but also mandated by legislative acts like the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD), which will become an EU-wide binding rule known as the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

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The Top 3 Reasons for Label & Packaging Errors in Food Manufacturing

NC State SCRC

This week’s guest blog is from Marvin Magusara, who contributed insights into an area often maligned… packaging! The role of packaging is an important contributor to total cost of ownership, as it also impacts cube on trucks, inventory storage, product safety, regulatory compliance, and customer satisfaction.

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Period of high financial risk to suppliers on the horizon

Resilinc

In the 2008-2009 recession, export-dependent countries in Asia suffered a 15% drop in GDP in Q4 2008 due to their dependence on export markets, according to IMF analyses. growth in 2009 thanks to its enormous financial stimulus package). China suffered only briefly, returning to 8.7%

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Pretty Is as Pretty Does?

Supply Chain Shaman

In fact, unsuspecting consumers would never guess at the issues that the package on the shelf represents for the sustainable supply chain. The package in consumer products is designed to market the product. The package is designed, redesigned and tweaked over and over again throughout the launch process. Interest is increasing.

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What is Economic Order Quantity & its Advantages

SCMDOJO

That there are no constraints on lot size : Suppliers do sometimes request a minimum order quantity or the stock keeping unit comes in a specific package with a specific quantity. Bixby Cooper , 3rd edition (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2009), 164; Michael H. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2009. Pearson College Div, 2010), 123; Donald J.

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Let the Qs Begin

Supply Chain Shaman

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. Bernstein & Co.,