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Supply Chain Management in Apparel Industry

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Managing the flow of goods within the apparel industry requires an extensive and well-established supply chain network. Supply chain management can really be a deal-breaker for an apparel business. Stages of Operations in an Apparel Business. Design is the first step that happens in apparel manufacturing.

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

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ABC Analysis for Inventory Planning : Clustering products that behave similarly highlights issues, challenges, and opportunities for serving customers better. Price index and price elasticity are useful metrics on their own, and a combination of these can help determine the right price point to maximize revenue and profit.

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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns. When compared to pre-recession years, we ended the decade with twenty more days of inventory. Days of Inventory Comparison. Now, let’s take consumer products. What can we learn?

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

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For the past month, I have been working alongside companies implementing digital strategies. When we study 600 public companies by peer group, at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin, only 5% drive improvement. An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics. ” Incrementalism.

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The Secret to Successful Enterprise Strategy? Always Include Supply Chain Management

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In this guest commentary, John McKeller , senior lecturer for the Wisconsin School of Business Grainger Center for Supply Chain Managemen t at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains four key considerations for successfully integrating a firm’s strategy with supply chain management. Communicate and deploy the strategy.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

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I find senior executives love to throw around superlatives like customer-centric, agile, efficient and responsive but lack the understanding of how the words translate to supply chain strategy in the real world. Managing a supply chain requires big feet—grounding in real-world experience—coupled with big wings—conceptualization of strategy.

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

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Now all retailers are re-assessing their sourcing strategies and looking for local alternatives to reduce risks, lead times and carbon footprint. Retailers will also have an inventory surplus because people will buy less overall, meaning they may need to lower prices to clear their excess stock–hurting their profits.