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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. Get tactical with your sales strategy. Inventory and marketing costs can be insidious parasites, gnawing at your margins. Optimise your customer retention strategy. in March – up 2.5%

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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. Call the cross-functional strategy whiteboard meeting, and map the issues over the last year. The wheels are falling off this bus.