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The $30 Billion Secret: How Amazon’s Logistics Saves You Time & Money

SCMDOJO

With a wide array of products stored in its fulfillment centers, Amazon can consolidate orders and optimize its inventory management systems. To overcome this, Amazon has developed sophisticated inventory management systems that allow them to efficiently store and retrieve products from their fulfillment centers.

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Covid-19 (Coronavirus): Where do we go from here?

Logility

A retail industry analyst said the clients he is speaking with are scrambling around focused on near-term tactics to find inventory to place on shelves and serve consumer needs. Where will you place that inventory? The responses vary quite a bit. Just look at the long lines and empty shelves at grocery stores and big box retailers.

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Good Safety is Good Business at the LogiChem 2015 Conference

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Last week’s 2015 LogiChem conference was held in Philadelphia, PA, the birthplace of the signing of our Declaration of Independence. The chemical supply chain continues to faces significant challenges, with more global and complex supply chains, leaner inventories, and rising customer expectations. ChemSolutions®, a division of C.H.

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Friends with Fitbits: Fitness tracking and taking supply chain planning to the next level

DELMIA Quintiq

As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. We focus on reducing miles driven, making a delivery in hours instead of days, minimizing inventories, or increasing the utilization of our workforce. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics.

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Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Note that neither company is making progress at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. The level of performance in 2015 is the same as 2006. Performance of BMS and Merck at the Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operating Margin. Performance and Improvement within the Pharmaceutical Industry for 2009-2015.

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My Take: LLamasoft Buys Barloworld Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

LLamasoft acquired the LogicTools assets from IBM in the spring of 2015.) The current company is stronger in North America than Europe. Barloworld, a South African software provider, was attempting to enter the North American market. The Acquisition Is a Mixed Bag for the Inventory Management Market.

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State of Logistics Outsourcing: Plenty of Room for Growth as Shipper Dissatisfaction & Technology Expectations Increase

GlobalTranz

The costs of logistics and inventory are decreasing, contract renewal rate for logistics outsourcing remains good, and the emergence of cutting-edge technologies like 3D printing, drone delivery and augmented reality is opening up a wide vista of opportunities. In 2015, the US economy has been projected to grow by 3.5%.