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Inventory Everywhere, But Not the Right Product to Ship

Supply Chain Shaman

Note that in Figure 1, retail home improvements days of inventory increased 68 days, contract manufacturing days increased 48 days, retail apparel by 28 days, and containers and packaging manufacturing companies by 14 days. Despite investments in planning, today, industries hold 28 more days of inventory than in 2004.

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What is Genuinely New in Supply Chain Management?

Logistics Viewpoints

But electronics; industrial and manufactured; and apparel, footwear, and textiles make up the bulk of products detained. In the case of Vietnam, it was more likely that Vietnamese companies were making apparel with cotton grown or processed into fabric in Xinjiang. They can also order online and have goods shipped to their home.

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Revolutionizing Supply Chain Planning: The Power of Generative AI

Logility

To meet the challenges posed by rapidly evolving customer demands, market volatility, and global disruptions, businesses are turning to advanced technologies. This proactive approach to inventory management minimizes holding costs, reduces waste, and ensures timely availability of products to meet customer demand.

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Achieve Higher Fulfillment Rates to Improve Customer Satisfaction 

Logility

Increasing numbers of consumers will abandon their shopping cart if they can’t get things when they want them, and this goes across verticals that include apparel, food, and beverages. Even among those who don’t expect same-day delivery, 80% expect same-day shipping. It’s on a ship somewhere, you guess. Automated fulfillment.

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5 Reasons to Leave Your 3PL with Shane Hanson

The Logistics of Logistics

Square1 primarily serves clients in the Beauty, Packaged Food, Apparel, and Consumer Goods industries, and currently works with 40 domestic and international clients. Poor quality – If your 3PL is causing issues such as product damage or shipping the wrong products, it can have a detrimental effect on your business.

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Amazon supply chain management pushes retail to the limit

Kinaxis

It has leased 20 Boeing 767 aircraft to shuttle goods around the US, and helped ship at least 150 cargo containers from China since October 2016. It’s all part of the global expansion of ‘Fulfillment by Amazon’, which provides storage, packing and shipping to small independent merchants selling products on Amazon’s website.

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Reduce Excess Inventory While Protecting Margins with a Pricing and Promotion Analysis  Solution

Logility

Your ship’s come in! Much of the merchandise languishing aboard cargo ships stuck in ports around the world during the pandemic-fueled supply chain crisis has made it to store shelves. That’s a good thing, right? Nonetheless, there are deep discounts in stores across the U.S. Big Box Blues.