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Increase Margins and Improve Service Levels by Optimizing Your Spare Parts Supply ChainĀ 

Logility

Measuring the Value of Optimized Inventory in Service Parts The spare parts market is big business, with the global automotive spare parts market valued at US $160.69 billion by 2030. It is a complicated, availability-driven industry, but the prize for getting inventory distribution right is significant. .

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service. Analyze Past Results in Customer Service. We draw a timeline on a conference room wall and using customer shipment and compliance data, we plot the issues with customer service and product outages.

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Top 5 Logistics Challenges and Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry

GlobalTranz

The manufacturing industry faces many challenges, such as a skilled labor shortage, supply chain instability, and inventory management issues. Supply Chain Management and Maintaining Inventory. Facing inventory challenges is common in the manufacturing industry. Inventory management software is an important solution.

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Four Strategies To Deploy As Supply Chain Hits Main Street

Supply Chain Shaman

Be Careful on Customer Service Automation. Customer service automation is an ongoing opportunity. The customer experience is rough. I suggest that all supply chain leaders call their support lines and accept responsibility for customer service. Second Step: Understand the Role of Inventory.

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Clouds are Gathering for an Open Platform for Supply Chain

ToolsGroup

When parts of the E2E supply chain get siloed, the bullwhip effect and the human overreactions in planning kick in and amplify the disconnect between upstream supply and downstream customer demand. Common disconnects like these ultimately translate to high supply chain costs and poor customer service.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire for 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

It is not as simple as trading-off inventory, cost, and customer service. In the Supply Chains to Admire analysis, the focus is to understand the relative performance of a company within a peer group of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Imagine Supply Chain 2030.

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

A supply chain team improved forecast accuracy by 22%, but did not improve inventory or customer service. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. At the event, technologists and business leaders work shoulder-to-shoulder to Imagine Supply Chain 2030. Fire Fighters. The reason?

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