Apparel Inventory Procurement 
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Despite the evolution of technology, none of the 28 industry segments I follow can drive improvement at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Aggregate Industry Trend Apparel Industry Groupthink In short, the industry struggles with Groupthink. Change is Hard. Unlearning is Tougher. The industry is full of experts.
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 1, 2025
By harnessing the growing power of AI to not only sense demand at a very fine-grain, real-time level, but also to govern decisions about pricing and inventory. AI can help. The company says its new approach uses agentic AI to transform consumer feedback into profitable retail growth strategies.
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Kinaxis
JUNE 11, 2025
Automakers must model dual-path sourcing strategies and reintroduce buffer inventory—not just for parts, but for regulatory flexibility. Emergency tariffs have raised the landed cost of essential imports in medtech, forcing procurement teams to seek alternative (and often less validated) suppliers, which is a regulatory risk.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 17, 2025
Koganti urged the procurement audience to look for whats referred to as “foresight function” in planning tools, which is capable of enhancing data analysis, scenario generation and trend identification , allowing for more informed and proactive decision-making, albeit with human oversight.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
For a big wave of work associated with an order, there might be 500 items, both shoes and apparel, that needed to fit in the tote. Improved inventory accuracy in the warehouse Because of the increases in picking efficiency, workers were freed up for new tasks. DCs inventory accuracy now exceeds 99.5%. What about the other 300?
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
While the performance rankings were based on comparisons of inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013, the concept is that to be a supply chain leader you must outperform and drive improvement. Bernstein & Co., Can you help us with what you see in the data?”
Logility
MAY 10, 2022
Smart inventory allocation and deployment starts with the right digital supply chain platform. For most businesses, the past two years have been a much-needed teaching moment on the state of their inventory planning, tracking, and management capabilities. Decades-old, tried-and-true rules ?
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