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A Tale of Two Industries: Surprising Demand Spikes amid Supply Chain Disruption

ToolsGroup

How to respond to supply chain disruptions. sells and deploys ToolsGroup software to companies in The Netherlands, Belgium and Turkey. Consequently the company was prepared with enough inventory to meet demand and service levels. What ends up happening in reality often lies in the space between these two extremes.

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5 Ways Businesses Are Uncovering Success With AI In Manufacturing

ToolsGroup

Machine Learning: A branch of AI that is concerned with the question of how to construct computer programs that automatically improve with experience. Optimize spare part inventories. Here’s what Nick Wilson, Senior Inventory Planner, Parts Operations at Aston Martin has to say. Wondering how to spot those gaps?

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What Your Company Needs to Succeed in Today’s Retail Landscape

AIMMS

In Europe, V&D , a major Dutch department store, and Brantano , a large footwear retailer operating in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK, have officially declared bankruptcy. How to modify the overall product assortment for each category? How to best cater to continuously changing customer preferences?

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What Your Company Needs to Succeed in Today’s Retail Landscape

AIMMS

In Europe, V&D , a major Dutch department store, and Brantano , a large footwear retailer operating in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK, have officially declared bankruptcy. How to modify the overall product assortment for each category? How to best cater to continuously changing customer preferences?

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Advice to Students: The Next CEO Will Be From Supply Chain

Arkieva

In Belgium particularly, education is good and inexpensive. As Belgium is small, many students easily commute from the mom and pap hotel, by train to the university. How to know what you want to be later in life, if all options are open. Improve service and cost, but not at the expense of inventory.

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Comparing and Contrasting Mom with QAD Adaptive ERP

QAD

I can reach my mom 24 hours a day by phone (although I can’t leave a message because she doesn’t know how to set up her voicemail). Which leads us into… How They Are Different. It provides supply chain visibility so manufacturers can quickly adjust to demand fluctuations and reduce or increase inventory levels accordingly. .

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

Arrange your inventory based on how often you need to use it. View the full post or view the snippet below: Over the last 5 years, I have seen many companies launching inventory reduction programs. Our definition of Sales Inventory and Operations Planning (SiOP) at Solventure contains the following steps: Read More ».