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The Backorder, April 10 2024

Unleashed

Baltimore bridge disaster adds new stress to global supply chains. That’s why AOV is an essential metric to improve. Inventory and marketing costs can be insidious parasites, gnawing at your margins. If dead stock is consuming vital inventory space in your warehouse try bundling your slowest-moving items with best-sellers.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. 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. From The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation, and Interpretation , by Ludwig Edelstein.

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. If I do an excellent job at safety stock management, my company will have the right levels of inventory. Focus on the Form and Function of Inventory. Focus on improving inventory buffers. The wheels are falling off this bus.