AB&R

JUNE 17, 2019

PHOENIX, ARIZONA – JUNE 17, 2019. azcentral.com and Republic Media (The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com) announced that AB&R® (American Barcode and RFID) has earned a spot on the list of 2019 azcentral.com® Top Companies to Work for in Arizona for the fifth consecutive year. “We We are honored to be recognized for the fifth year in a row as one of Arizona’s “Top Companies to Work for!”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.”

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Cerasis

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

So why do we feature content related to Vendor Managed Inventory? In a VMI model, part of the equation is the inbound & outbound flow of the inventory. Inventory is then put on pallets and shipped as freight. ” Vendor Managed Inventory Model: A Quick Back Story.

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EMERGE App

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Inventory costing or valuation is an accounting concept that has a direct impact on your gross profit and thus taxable income. Methods of valuing inventory are simply different cost-flow assumptions about how to allocate your cost of goods available for sale. Retail Inventory Method.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our call was scheduled quite early for me in Arizona since Santa’s HQ had adopted GMT as the standard time. Santa also wants to take advantage of all the new information available through the SC planning platform to optimize inventory. Update on the Christmas Express Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 6, 2015

I am busy finalizing a report on the current state of the inventory optimization market, rewriting and updating a report on Sales and Operations technologies, and penning a new report on Supply Chain Centers of Excellence. (We It is finally spring in Philadelphia.

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AB&R

JANUARY 10, 2019

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Linton] co-authored The Living Supply Chain , which argues that “Speeding up the supply chain is at the root of everything that is good: improved revenue, reduced working capital, higher profitability, and less obsolete inventory.

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Supply Chain Nation

APRIL 11, 2014

Saturday, April 12, the University of Advancing Technology campus in Tempe, Arizona will once again serve as the host for the Avnet Tech Games , now in its ninth year. Uncategorized capacity forecasting inventory pricing

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AB&R

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Plus, thanks to our great employees, we were named as one of the Top Companies to Work for in Arizona for the fourth year in a row. Barcodes are critical to helping you manage inventory, and when a vendor or partner of yours can’t scan your barcode, problems arise.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

It is not as simple as trading-off inventory, cost, and customer service. In the Supply Chains to Admire analysis, the focus is to understand the relative performance of a company within a peer group of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (We

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

On September 9–11, 2014, 110 supply chain visionaries will gather in the desert at the Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona to think differently and define the future of supply chain.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

This view of the supply chain is focused primarily on how we get inventory to the customer. He pointed out that the customer doesn’t care which division owns the inventory – they just want the product whenever and wherever they desire. Because Macy’s is now fulfilling orders from stores… so store sales and inventory at stores don’t matter. Amazon has a fee based structure where they get X% of the cost of stuff they sell – but they never own the inventory.

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Elementum

JULY 20, 2015

The collapse of a major bridge on I-10 connecting California to Arizona served as a striking reminder that US infrastructure is failing and little is being done about it. The bridge, built in 1967, had been labeled “functionally obsolete” by the National Bridge Inventory in 2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

Instead, what I observed when I looked at the data, was that most companies that I had worked with (in my role as an industry analyst, I had worked with over 300) were going backwards on margin and inventory turns. This work is based on a collaborative project with Arizona State University.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

This week, I am finalizing an agreement with Arizona State University to fund a PHD student in statistics under the guidance of George Runger to try to finish the work. And, recently, Procter & Gamble is more focused on improving inventory turns.

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Cerasis

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The Benefits of Evolved Vendor Managed Inventory Model Led by Web-Based VMI. When I was Materials Manager at Maricopa County, Arizona, the second largest county in the country, I introduced Vendor Managed Inventory. I called Fastenal, who specializes in Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) for fasteners, in to see what we can do together. There was a signed contract with agreed upon inventory levels. We never ran out of or had too much inventory.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Chuck Intrieri is a: Certified Value Engineer (VE), Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM), Certified Production and Inventory Control Manager (CPIM), and is Lean Certified all of which attests to his deep understanding of operations and logistics beyond the confines of the purchasing function. Evolve Dental Technologies, Inc, Virtu USA, and many other large and medium sized companies in Illinois, Michigan, Arizona and Orange County, CA.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Supply Chain Improvement is based on the work that we completed with an Arizona State University Operations Research team to determine the Supply Chain Index. Do you actively design networks with a focus on form and function of inventory?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

by CJ Wehlage The Supply Chain Insights annual conference was held on September 10-11, 2014 at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona. While other “lists” use ROA, Inventory Turns and Revenue Growth, I find Lora’s science very objective.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

When I sat down to write the book, Bricks Matter, I believed that companies had used supply chain technologies to reduce operating margin and improve inventory turns. Resiliency: The pattern or reliability of results at this intersection of operating margin and inventory turns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 17, 2019

Overall results in business performance on the critical supply chain metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are declining. Let’s start with a discussion on inventory. In Table 1, we share the comparison of inventory levels by the industry peer groups pre and post-recession. Despite the investment in technology and whiz-bang approaches, inventory levels today are significantly higher than the pre-recession period.

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AFFLINK

APRIL 18, 2018

A white paper by the Arizona State University W.P. The Arizona State white paper details the “evolution of warehouse types” but there has been so much change in the warehouse industry that “revolution” might be the more appropriate word.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 19, 2017

The methodology was determined with Supply Chain Insights and Arizona State University in 2014. Strength looks at the trend of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns from 2010 to 2016. A strong supply chain will show that as operating margin goes up, inventory turns go up as well.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more.”[2] Evaluate inventory policy, sourcing modifications, and commercial terms.

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Kinaxis

MAY 30, 2017

One conference I recently attended is the Gartner Supply Chain Executive conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Use of drones ( EyeSee inside the warehouse for scanning and tracking inventory, Prime Air for delivery). by Dr. Madhav Durbha I enjoy attending conferences.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

I just don’t think the comparison of very different industries in a spreadsheet based on growth, inventory values, and Return on Assets (ROA) is meaningful. Mush is a thick cornmeal pudding boiled in water or milk. It sits until the gel forms a semisolid state.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We believe that a supply chain leader is defined by both the level of performance on the Effective Frontier (balance of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Profitability and Inventory Turns) and driving supply chain improvement.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This methodology, termed the Supply Chain Index, was developed in partnership with the Operations Research team at Arizona State University. by Melissa Clow September is a busy time of year for us at Kinaxis – Many folks here are flying the skies to attend various conferences.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

On the 2nd of April, I sat before a board discussing how a company could exceed expectations in the delivery of Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and superior operating margins and fail at the delivery of customer service and inventory. It is a slow week. Most of my friends are on vacation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2013

This work will continue throughout the summer and culminate in the release of the Supply Chain Index for 36 Industry Sectors at our Supply Chain Insights Global Summit at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona on September 11-12, 2013. Today, I am proud to launch the Supply Chain Index.

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Logility

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I recently moved to Arizona and traded my lawnmower and snow-shovels for a salt-water pool. First, you need to have deployed the basic demand, inventory and supply components of an integrated supply chain planning & optimization system of record. I think you might agree this was a very favorable trade.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

Orbit Chart Comparing Syngenta and Monsanto Progress on the Effective Frontier – Balancing Inventory Turns and Operating Margin for the Period of 2005-2014. Orbit Chart of Syngenta and Monsanto of Progress on Operating Margin and Inventory Turns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Only 57% of retailers have a perpetual inventory signal, and too few companies (22%) have invested in mining channel data through the use of a Demand Signal Repository (DSR). It is the week before Thanksgiving in the United States; and as a good Yank, I am reflective. I am giving thanks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

In prior posts , I have written how nine out of ten supply chains are stuck in their ability to improve operating performance on the Effective Frontier of managing growth, profitability, inventory turns and business complexity.) Hoax: An act intended to deceive or trick.

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Supply Chain @ MIT

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The State of Ohio, for example, is buffering its PPE inventories, for example. Supply chain professionals know that risk pooling – where vital global inventories are co-managed as a common resource – is critical in maximizing the impact of a scarce commodity.

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