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Unlocking Insights with Life Cycle Inventory Analysis

SCMDOJO

This is where the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) comes into play. A comprehensive analysis of the energy and material inputs, outputs, and environmental impacts associated with a product’s life cycle, LCI helps us unlock valuable insights into sustainable practices. What is the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)?

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Inventory Everywhere, But Not the Right Product to Ship

Supply Chain Shaman

Bloated inventories. Despite investments in planning, today, industries hold 28 more days of inventory than in 2004. The larger the number of days of inventory, the greater the cash drag.) Changes in Inventory Year-end inventory values by industry from Y Charts. The story continues. Rising inflation.

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Life Sciences Supply Chain Inventory Optimization

Logility

Lifespan has nearly doubled in a century and is continuing to grow as the life sciences industry advances. The life sciences are integral to the quality of life and lifespan, but the field faces some uniquely difficult inventory challenges. AI augmentation can identify issues in your supply chain that basic data analytics cannot spot.

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

Logistics Viewpoints

For companies that want to go beyond the traditional spreadsheet, which cannot handle this ocean of information efficiently, statistical methods such as cluster analysis can help. What is Cluster Analysis? Cluster analysis is a statistical umbrella term for methods that classify data points according to their attributes.

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Reduce Excess Inventory While Protecting Margins with a Pricing and Promotion Analysis  Solution

Logility

Retailers including Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Amazon and Best Buy are dealing with a combined $45 billion in excess inventory from orders placed during the height of the pandemic, according to Bloomberg. Then, as port problems eased, a glut of inventory – a phenomenon known as the “ bullwhip effect.” Big Box Blues.

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Fashion Industry Challenges Require Elegant Demand Planning

ToolsGroup

While sophisticated supply chain planning is a necessity for any industry with complex demand, the fashion industry is particularly tricky due to high variety and segmentation (by type of consumer, sales channel, demographic, etc.), Requirements for demand forecasting in the fashion industry. Hybrid models (i.e. trillion U.S.

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

Downsizing inventories over the past decade crippled the response.” In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. Days of Inventory Peer Group Across Time Periods.