ivalua

APRIL 9, 2021

The study reveals how the disruption caused by COVID-19 has transformed procurement and supply chain strategy across the globe, exploring how procurement is helping organisations get back on their feet after the pandemic. Inaccurate data leads to inventory management challenges. Inventory challenges are also slowing cash flow.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

In episode six of Be Ready for Anything, ToolsGroup’s Pre-Sales Manager for Europe, Birger Klinke, talks about what retailers should expect in 2021 and how they can leverage probabilistic forecasting and automation to adjust to a changing marketplace. What do you predict will be different for retailers in 2021? Transcript.

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Logility

DECEMBER 21, 2021

21, 2021 – Logility, Inc., a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today was announced a winner of Food Logistics’ 2021 Top Software & Technology Providers award. Logility recognized for moving the food and beverage supply chain forward efficiently. ATLANTA – Dec.

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ModusLink Corporation

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Inventory Management has always played a key part in any successful Supply Chain. Correctly managing inventory levels helps companies to swiftly adapt to unpredictable changes within the marketplace. Without adapting to the current demand, your winter jackets will become excess inventory overtime. Inventory Management.

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ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

The study reveals how the disruption caused by COVID-19 has transformed procurement and supply chain strategy across the globe, exploring how procurement is helping organizations get back on their feet after the pandemic. Inaccurate data leads to inventory management challenges. Inventory challenges are also slowing cash flow.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

The basis of our 2022 predictions were our belief that the 2021 predictions theme of Renewal was shifting toward one of Reexamination of business process practices and decision-making needs. Our stated belief was that the multi-industry supply chain challenges of 2021 would not abate and would linger in some cases into 2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. Trade disputes and tariffs.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Inventory management is a crucial aspect of supply chain management, and effective strategies can help businesses reduce costs, improve customer service, and increase profits. But what does a great inventory management strategy look like? Amazon did not invent the random storage approach.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 13, 2023

Trey and his Co-founder Taha Zinifi started Amplio in Summer 2021 to help solve one of the most critical supply challenges facing the industry. The Amplio solutions ensure that you have the inventory you need, when you need it, at the most optimized price so that you can focus on what matters most to you and your business.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Building and maintaining a strong, consistent brand is fundamental to any marketing strategy. Your marketing strategy should focus on building brand equity because it plays a significant role in your brewery’s long-term sustainability. Beer marketing strategies in 2020. Beer marketing strategies during lockdown.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Despite supply chain costs increasing and available capacity almost a rarity, retailers are undertaking a variety of ways to make sure they receive their inventory in time for the ever-important holiday season. “We feel good about the composition of our inventory. It's been difficult to plan inventory flow with much precision.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

From the continuing impact of the global pandemic to the ever-increasing importance of ‘transparency technology’ and sustainable practices, the food industry has its work cut out for it in 2021. So if you have a thirst for knowledge, here’s all you need to know about food industry trends for 2021. Consumer trends in food industry.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

So what are the food processing trends to watch out for in 2021? While the rolling out of the Covid-19 vaccine is highly positive and experts anticipate the pandemic will be largely over by the end of 2021, precautions remain in place and that makes safety a key and hugely important trend for the next 12 months.

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Stord

APRIL 11, 2022

The out-of-stock sticker shock we experienced in the past few years is forcing retailers to take a hard look at how they plan inventory. Why Has Inventory Been so Hard to Come By? Near the start of the pandemic, the inventory-to-sales ratio in the U.S. in April 2021. plummeted—first down to 1.21 months of sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Many major challenges of 2021—capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortage—are rolling over into 2022 and, in addition, the environment and machine learning are becoming more important for logistics and supply chain professionals. Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

With our supply chains clogged and retail inventories piling up, we have a situation wherein the huge imbalances between demand and supply at the product mix level can have an adverse impact on product availability for B2B and B2C companies alike, especially as we start heading to the holiday season. in October 2021. A ratio of 1.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Inventory Is an Egregious Symptom of Supply Chains Gone Wrong. Today, inventory fire sales abound. Headline news included Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl’s and Macy’s struggling with inventory bloat and offering deep discounts. Wall Street Journal Headline on Retailers Using Containers to Store Excess Inventories. My take away?

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 10, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues with our annual listing of our most read blog commentaries that were published and of keen interest to our readers during the year 2021. The years of 2020 and 2021 presented unprecedented pandemic and other related challenges to industry and global supply chains. October 8, 2021.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 2, 2024

This trend has represented significant financial loss for retailers, with average annual loss from this source alone exceeding $102,000 for a typical grocery store with 12 self-checkout lanes.”[3] ”[3] All retailers, not just grocers, are suffering from inventory losses. And plenty of people love it.”[7]

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As 2021’s holiday shopping statistics proved, pandemic or not, consumers are willing to spend. (My When looking at global online sales, Salesforce reports 57% digital growth in 2020, and 16% growth in 2021, with eMarketer data predicting a continued increase through 2025. Data source: eMarketer. in 2021, compared to 42,000 sq.

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Logility

JUNE 22, 2021

ATLANTA – June 22, 2021 – Logility, Inc., Panel of Experts to Highlight How Advanced Supply Chain Planning Unites the Extended Enterprise.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 23, 2022

“Demand was greater than available inventory” was a common theme in many retailers’ earnings announcements in early Q1 of 2022. After a strong start to the quarter in inventory receipts and product sell-through, we experienced unexpected inventory receipt slides in key categories due to extended port and transportation delays.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. Similarly, after the conference, I started working with a chemical company to formulate a supply chain strategy. Spring 2020-February 2021. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A report by Acosta, a US-based sales and marketing agency, on grocery store trends for 2021 indicates that 46% of people now use online delivery more than they did before the pandemic. Demand-driven replenishment and fulfillment can help retail planners manage large SKUs, determining each sales location and its optimal inventory targets.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

What happened to the supply chain in 2021? Before I dig into what I mean by that let’s reflect on 2021 supply chain challenges. All this led to global supply chain disruptions and inventory build-ups, wrong inventory mixes, and supply chain shortages in 2022. Image source: New York Times. Get your Free Playbook ?

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Synovos

JULY 24, 2023

In November 2021, RS launched its 2030 ESG action plan, entitled ‘For a Better World’, which has four global goals and 15 ambitious actions for 2030. This has been made possible through modal shifts from air to sea or air to road and optimizing its supply chain to source, store and ship more products locally.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

Better demand sensing, shifts in customer behaviours, predictive/prescriptive case studies, shift in inventory stocking strategy and customer service. Visibility into Tier I, II and III suppliers, de-risk by developing alternates, build practical BCPs (business continuity plans) and China + 1 sourcing strategy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index). He genuinely cared for the organization and prided himself on forging clever strategies. We started the conversation with sourcing.

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Logility

APRIL 5, 2021

Water is one obvious answer to that question, but a supply chain professional might say, “recent headline-grabbing sources of supply variability that have disrupted global supply networks.” challenge through: Focusing on the form and function of inventory to maximize the utility of the buffer. If it’s not COVID, it’s something else.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Start by looking at peak season survival tips and considering the possibility of utilizing a 75-day peak season strategy. Reviewing shipping data associated with Amazon Prime Day 2021 will reveal insights related to carriers, cost analysis, and service levels that will prove useful in projecting peak season outcomes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2021

In MIT’s State of Supply Chain Sustainability 2021 , 80% of executives surveyed said the pandemic either had no impact on their commitment or increased it. I was drawn to Hunter and Amory Lovins, who advocated a strategy pairing energy efficiency with renewables, long before its current popularity. But what about the role of planning?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as supply chain leaders have been dealing with changing buyer behaviors, inventory management challenges, labor shortages, weather and pandemic-related uncertainty, cyber security threats and capacity constraints that continue to create significant supply chain volatility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2023

Companies need a planning solution to analyze the trade-offs between make, source, and deliver. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is no panacea for the lack of clarity of an operating strategy or the absence of product flow design. A Focus on Safety Stock Is Too Narrow for Effective Inventory Management. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 1, 2022

I work with a group that has a sub-team focused on cost, one on customer service, and one on inventory, but lack alignment on a standard definition of supply chain excellence. Expect write-downs, firesales, and rethinking supply chain strategies. On average, industries carry 38 more days of inventory than in 2007. I think not.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index). He genuinely cared for the organization and prided himself on forging clever strategies. We started the conversation with sourcing.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For retailers yet to modernize inventory and workforce planning, it’s not too late to layer AI-infused microservice capabilities onto existing deployments, to accurately and efficiently predict and meet demand, come what may. How can we best leverage inventory and our workforce regardless of what happens during the 2023 holiday season?

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