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A New Red Wagon?

Supply Chain Shaman

I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. As shown in Figure 1, the company has been unable to maintain balance on the portfolio of cost and inventory. Note that recent inventory progress is slipping against the improvements during the recession). Memory, cloud-based computing and analytics. The difference?

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

The bonus incentive programs of the sales teams in software sent my humble West Virginia country girl roots into overdrive. Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel.

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

The bonus incentive programs of the sales teams in software sent my humble West Virginia country girl roots into overdrive. Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel.

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The Power of AI in Retail: Meet the Team Cognira Series

Cognira

Mark’s relationship with AI started at a liberal arts college in West Virginia, where he studied Computer Science and minored in Accounting. When we use the term, AI, we are referring to machine learning and advanced analytics that can independently learn from past decisions and adapt to optimize results.