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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. Next steps?

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Life Sciences Supply Chain Inventory Optimization

Logility

The life sciences are integral to the quality of life and lifespan, but the field faces some uniquely difficult inventory challenges. You can then take it a step further with multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO), which provides visibility to everything from raw materials, to finished goods.

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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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Automated Order Processing and Proactive Inventory Management

Speaker: Irina Rosca, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Helix

Companies should have seamless integration between order entry, inventory management, forecasting and supply planning models and purchase order status to sense risk, pull levers to mitigate potential risk, and communicate within and outside the organization. etc) or online promotions (company run or 3rd party). April 3rd, 2019 11.00

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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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Using ABC Analysis to Determine Off Balance Inventory

Arkieva

In this blog are some analyses based on the Pareto principle (or as is very commonly referred to as ABC analysis) that one can do in order to determine the alignment of the inventory with the overall needs of the supply chain. Using ABC Analysis to Determine Off Balance Inventory was first posted on February 10, 2021 at 8:01 am.