Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

We have the potential to revolutionize goods transportation and are excited to be working with partners around the world to make this vision a reality. We have the potential to revolutionize goods transportation and are excited to be working with partners around the world to make this vision a reality.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Wall Street Journal reported this week ( Paid subscription or metered view ), that fashion and apparel retailer Macy’s has managed to avoid the significant excess merchandise inventory levels that are challenging other retailers. We recommend that our readers have a view of this report.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Founded in 2002 with over 100 consultants and based in Boulder, Colorado , Spinnaker SCA designs and builds agile supply chains for leading brands across Consumer Staples, High Tech, Industrial Manufacturing, Retail & Apparel, Medical Devices, and Distribution Industries. No financial details were disclosed in the announcement.

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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?”

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20Cube Logistics

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Though fashion and apparel is an indispensable part of the human lifestyle and one of the basic necessities, we can also say that it has gone beyond the scope of being one and has become a yardstick to judge an individual’s personality. Inventory got depleted in warehouses with no shipper coming to take it away. Introduction.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. The two primary buffers in the supply chain are manufacturing capacity and inventory. Time horizon. The takeaway?

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For Walmar t, sales of higher margin discretionary products such as electronics, household goods and apparel reportedly continued to impact margins and excess inventory. business unit inventory levels now amount to $1 billion in excess inventories compared to $1.5 In its reporting, Bloomberg reported that U.S.

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EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

With apparel brands, for example, up to 90% of emissions come from the value chain, and while multi-tenure landlords are making efforts to cut emissions from their offices and fleet, this is dwarfed by their oft-reported +99% Scope 3 emissions. But there are opportunities to be had by reducing supply chain-based emissions.

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DynaSys

APRIL 20, 2022

In the Northern Hemisphere, most retail stores are now advertising and selling summer apparel and summer related products. The three areas are: Value Chain Management Inventory Management Capacity Management. Inventory Management. When manufacturers talk inventory management, the conversation quickly turns to finished products.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. Industries that are facing the biggest labor shortages are construction, transportation, warehousing, hospitality and local service businesses like salons and dry cleaners—all staffed by a significant proportion of immigrants.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

The need to respond to those changes while maintaining margins, service, and efficiencies with optimal planning of inventory, sourcing, transportation, and fulfilment. and carefully procure and place inventory, they constantly face operational issues during execution. Making Control Towers Cognitive. labor) shortages.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

The need to respond to those changes while maintaining margins, service, and efficiencies with optimal planning of inventory, sourcing, transportation, and fulfilment. and carefully procure and place inventory, they constantly face operational issues during execution. Making Control Towers Cognitive. labor) shortages.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

Apparel is actually moving backwards. When companies look at singular metrics (labor costs or inventory), they have moved backwards. In parallel, when supply chain concepts are well-integrated into the design of trading partner relationships by both sales and procurement, there is an acceleration of value.

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Cognira

JANUARY 10, 2022

For retailers, the old way of dealing with demand was to buy excess inventory to fulfill stores for a given period. For fashion apparel especially, sizes and colors are tough to gauge for the average consumer, and retailers will benefit from preparing these returns. Increase in returns. Leveraging New Customer Data. Reducing waste.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 27, 2022

At the back of your supply chain, you’ve got your raw materials being procured. Reduce transportation costs by placing factories in optimal locations, depending on raw material and consumer locations. They include things like the cost of materials, labor, and transportation. Manage disruptions more efficiently.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Thus, many retailers, both brick and mortar and online focused, had to dynamically link available inventory with in-store, online and channel related promotional initiatives. Business Process Outsourcing. Banking Suite.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

Critical inventory disruptions/deficiency anywhere in the supply chain. Following her consulting tenure with Silicon-valley based software companies, she brought her Advanced Analytics and Business Process Engineering experience to Apparel Retail where she worked at Gap Inc. Network bottleneck identification. Response to disruptions.

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FLEXE

APRIL 12, 2017

In 2005, department stores alone sold $60 billion in apparel; in 2015, it was half with nearly $28 billion shifting to online retailers like Amazon. On-demand warehousing solutions make it possible to solve for inventory overflow and add fulfillment centers with little-to-no risk and no long-term lease agreements.

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Requis

JULY 14, 2020

A supply chain is really any network of organizations that work in collaboration to aid the procurement, production and movement of goods from producers to suppliers. Waste from plastics is a big issue for the circular economy, as is waste in fashion and apparel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Following her consulting tenure with Silicon-valley based software companies, she brought her Advanced Analytics and Business Process Engineering experience to Apparel Retail where she worked at Gap Inc.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Unilever has sustainability at the very heart of its business model, extending all the way through the supply chain from distribution to procurement. Let’s look at these qualities in a little more detail: Bucking the Outsourcing Trend: Unlike most of its direct competitors, Zara is an apparel manufacturer —not just a retailer.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Companies store the resulting inventory for future resale, or in some cases engage in diverting, the resale of inventory to other channels or regions. Even if price increases are announced in advance, forward buying incurs risk, because you don’t know how quickly you will be able to sell the increased levels of inventory.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The success of a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand relies heavily on its ecommerce operations — from product procurement to distributing inventory , to shipping customer orders. . Receiving and managing inventory. Inventory management also takes a lot of time planning — how much inventory do you need to on hand to meet demand?

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Requis

JULY 24, 2020

Insiders joke (quite fairly, as it turns out) about billion-dollar procurement-management-disposition cycles that are managed in spreadsheets. In the procurement space, what I want to be able to assess is risk management. He and his business partner Dan Dershem have been looking at procurement from several angles.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In higher-traffic markets, Advance Auto Parts has “hub” stores that keep more inventory in-stock to give customers what they need when they need it. Bed Bath & Beyond is also implementing inventory reduction strategies and is on track for a 5% reduction year-over-year by the end of the current fiscal year.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Debuting at # 24 is footwear and apparel company Adidas (arch-rival Nike has been a Top 25 mainstay for years). Department of Transportation to ban the product from air transportation.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Traditionally, a typical warehouse was nothing more than a wide open building with space to receive and store inventory. . Fast forward to present day and you’ll find that ecommerce warehousing is equipped with robotics, logistics automation , IoT technology, and real-time inventory management software.

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