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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

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.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions. Tracking Progress.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. Companies can win with an IT standardization policy. Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say.

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The Impact of the Coronavirus Crisis on Reverse Logistics

Enterra Insights

Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, writes, “The coronavirus has disrupted U.S. ”[1] He adds, “Dependence on China for their manufacturing has put small and midsize businesses in jeopardy. Hitendra Chaturvedi, a professor at the Supply Chain Department of W.P. ”[4]. ”[4].

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Continued Disruption and Added Cost Inflation Reflected in Key Global Transportation and Logistics Indices in March and Q1 2022

Supply Chain Matters

One of the more concerning areas at this time is that of China , where one of the most troubling outbreaks of COVID-19 infections, and consequent containment policies from China ’s regulators, continue to impede trucking transportation, ocean input and export movements. Because of this, both Inventory Costs (91.0) US Logistics Index.

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Two Indices of Supply Chain Activity Noting Supply Chain Volatility Trending

Supply Chain Matters

Our stated takeaway from for the Q1 data was that indices were no longer reflecting the optimism indicated in February, and instead that of growing headwinds and added geopolitical concerns related to effects of the Ukraine conflict and China’s potential economic stumble as a result of a strict COVID-19 isolation policy. s major retailers.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price. Zachary said.

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When the Heavy Hand of Government is Not a Burden

MIT Supply Chain

An example in the supply chain space is US maritime policy. As the demand for PPE has soared manufacturing capacity has become constrained, and some distributors are citing supply concerns. The State of Ohio, for example, is buffering its PPE inventories, for example. The situation is exacerbated by local stockpiling.