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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

Much of the finger-pointing involved the movement of shipping containers into and out of port facilities. For the supply chain to work smoothly, a complex and highly choreographed dance, involving both full and empty shipping containers, must be performed. More than 80 ships stretched to the distance — a new record. ”[1].

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Target’s Acknowledgement and Plan to Address Excess Inventory

Supply Chain Matters

In our Supply Chain Matters commentaries focused on online customer fulfillment and especially the 2021 holiday fulfilment period, we cautioned retail and consumer goods supply chain management teams to be watchful for the bullwhip effect in inventory planning and replenishment needs to support expected customer demand.

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Fulfillment Improvements Essential in Light of High-volume 2017 Holiday Sales

RFgen

The 2017 holiday shopping season left us with plenty to learn moving forward. It’s only April but, if you’re in retail, chances are you’re beginning to unpack the 2017 holiday season and explore what you can improve upon for next year. The 2017 Holiday Season in a Nutshell. billion, which exceeded expectations.

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Fulfillment Improvements Essential in Light of High-volume 2017 Holiday Sales

RFgen

The 2017 holiday shopping season left us with plenty to learn moving forward. It’s only April but, if you’re in retail, chances are you’re beginning to unpack the 2017 holiday season and explore what you can improve upon for next year. The 2017 Holiday Season in a Nutshell. billion, which exceeded expectations.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. The company created Project Gigaton in 2017 to engage suppliers and other stakeholders up and down the supply chain to reduce carbon emissions. Robots are everywhere these days.

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5 Ways to Reduce Your Inventory the Right Way

EMERGE App

Here, we’ll start by covering what reducing your inventory means. Then we’ll summarise some inventory holding costs that you might not know about. Finally, we’ll cover 5 ways that you can take to sensibly reduce your inventory now. What Does Reducing Your Inventory Mean? What Are Inventory Holding Costs?

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Does your supply chain hear the change coming?

Kinaxis

There is a move from the traditional shopping method of going to the store, whose inventory is based on customers buying pre-packaged items on shelves. An agile way of dealing with flexible fulfillment, shipping and return options is required. Real-time inventory is a necessity.