Alloy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51° and Market6 Data How Automation and Advanced Metrics You Won’t Get in 84.51° can help you grow your sales at Kroger and avoid inventory headaches. Kroger collaborates with thousands of food and beverage, health, beauty, and personal care companies to service roughly 2,800 stores.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. After six months of analysis, we decided the best fit was the combination of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital. Popular Beliefs on Supply Chain Excellence Do Not Align With Results. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Inventory. My takeaway?

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. Excellence in all these areas requires predicting demand, buying supplies, producing products promptly, and swiftly responding to market demand.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 29, 2019

Do You Want Inventory Turnover Breakthrough? It’s still being recorded in inventory and accounting systems. After an asset has broken, been sold, been misplaced or otherwise become unusable, it sometimes doesn’t get properly accounted for in inventory and record-keeping. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Unleashed

JULY 25, 2021

How can food and beverage manufacturers reduce their waste? Food waste can seriously impact the profitability of food and beverage manufacturers, particularly given the perishability of foodstuffs and the often-stringent regulation and controls around food handling. Improving food inventory control.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Effective inventory management is crucial to reducing costs in any manufacturing business. Good food manufacturing software provides a means to track inventory in real-time, through every step of the supply chain. Why your food inventory management system is going stale. Working with fresh food.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

We find that the companies with the most marked improvement in a balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are smaller and less well-known. For example, Monster Beverages beats Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, while Celanese outperforms Dow Chemical.

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RFgen

MARCH 12, 2024

In inventory management, the FIFO (First-In, First-Out) method takes center stage, offering a performance of unmatched clarity and efficiency in the world of stock control. Imagine your inventory as a flowing river, where the oldest water—your earliest products—moves forward to be used first, ensuring nothing stagnates or loses its relevance.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Industries like food, beverage, and other related processing face some unique production issues. With these challenges limiting productivity, revenue becomes a challenge for Food & Beverage businesses. Let us understand capacity planning in the context of the Food & Beverage industry. Types of capacity planning.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Industries like food, beverage, and other related processing face some unique production issues. With these challenges limiting productivity, revenue becomes a challenge for Food & Beverage businesses. Let us understand capacity planning in the context of the Food & Beverage industry. Types of capacity planning.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

For retailers, inventory is more than just a list of products: It’s also the mainstay of your retail operations, the source of your revenue, and the foundation of customer satisfaction. Retail inventory management is therefore the key to managing inventory costs and movements effectively. What is retail inventory management?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Our journey for supply chain excellence has changed and evolved over time.

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Unleashed

MAY 19, 2020

How many stock-outs, an event that caused inventory to be exhausted? Don’t purchase any supply chain solution that is not Cloud or SaaS based. That means you can buy it as a remote online service (SaaS) paying typically by user per month, or buy and install the software on the cloud. Stock & Inventory Control.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 18, 2021

Reverse logistics is the process of goods returning to their point of origin – back from the purchaser to the manufacturer or supplier. Read more: The 10 inventory management trends to watch for in 2022 Reverse logistics is another name for a backwards supply chain What steps make up the reverse logistics process?

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ThroughPut

MARCH 28, 2024

The market size of AI in the food industry , including the beverages sector is set to cross USD 9.68 Detection of nutritional constituents and allergens in food, optimizing routes and schedules of food delivery, and inventory management are some of the other ways AI is helping the food production industry. billion in 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Starboard Founder and President , Steve Johanson will lead a newly formed Center of Excellence within Logility. Plans currently call for Logility to be positioned to target specific industry verticals with a joint continuous network design and planning capability such as food and beverage, consumer durables, distribution and other verticals.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

The need to respond to those changes while maintaining margins, service, and efficiencies with optimal planning of inventory, sourcing, transportation, and fulfilment. and carefully procure and place inventory, they constantly face operational issues during execution. Controlling Business Outcomes with Supply Chain Control Towers.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

The need to respond to those changes while maintaining margins, service, and efficiencies with optimal planning of inventory, sourcing, transportation, and fulfilment. and carefully procure and place inventory, they constantly face operational issues during execution. Controlling Business Outcomes with Supply Chain Control Towers.

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Unleashed

MARCH 7, 2022

PAR levels are used widely in industries that handle perishable items – such as hospitality and pharmaceuticals – to calculate the level of inventory needed for a given item so businesses don’t run out before their next delivery. The PAR level determines the optimum amount of inventory stock needed on hand after each order delivery.

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Logility

MARCH 30, 2020

For the first time in history, shelves of stores across the globe that sell food, beverage and other fast-moving consumer goods (including toilet paper, hand sanitizer and cleaning products) are nearly empty. Looking back a few months, no one could have predicted the current state of the global supply chain.

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Vanguard Software

APRIL 22, 2021

Breaking up with Excel: Digital Sales Planning Success with Concord Foods. People : Consumers and key stakeholders increasingly expect the brands they buy and support to address sustainability issues. Webinar: Register Now. Supply chain sustainability benefits companies and consumers.

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Zipline Logistics

JULY 14, 2020

For emerging food and beverage manufacturers, distributors can be an essential part of increasing exposure and growing their businesses. Since distributors take ownership of the product , they also stock inventory, take orders from retailers, manage inventory, and service retailers’ needs. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

A recent conversation with a major distributor of consumer beverages encapsulated many of the most common issues. So, the parking spots are getting more and more occupied with drop trailers, meaning lot capacity shrinks while finding the trailer with the highest-priority inventory becomes even harder.

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ITradeNetwork

OCTOBER 9, 2018

With consumers taking full advantage of the ever-expanding options to buy goods both in person and online, it is imperative that your product makes it where it needs to go—on time, every time. This is particularly important in the food and beverage industry, where fast expiration dates put all logistics on a timeline.

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RFgen

JUNE 8, 2023

Key Takeaways: Inventory management software with built-in automation has been found to increase accuracy and profits. There is no one-size-fits-all solution for inventory management software—it’s about the best product for your business objectives and industry. And with the average on-hand inventory quantities up 8.3%

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

How to calculate Safety Stock levels in Excel. You can calculate safety stock levels in Excel by setting up your spreadsheet as per the image below. The safety stock formula can be calculated in Excel with a simple table. Safety stock is a buffer of inventory held to protect against stock-outs. Stock outs and efficiency.

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2022

All told, less than 50% of food and beverage companies are fully compliant with current traceability regulations—including the Bioterrorism Act and FSMA. Keeping track of product batch numbers, lot numbers, and serial numbers is an excellent precursory initiative that mobile barcoding solutions excel at performing.

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Alloy

MARCH 18, 2021

McLane Company is an important customer for many food and beverage brands, who use its supply chain services to get their products to grocery, drug and convenience stores. Visibility improves inventory management and more. That meant McLane didn’t have enough inventory to cover retail positions.

Inventory Reduction 52

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

IoT supports operational efficiencies in areas such as asset tracking, inventory management and forecasting, improving productivity and aiding decision-making across the supply chain. Inventory optimization: Coupled with demand forecasting, predictive analytics enables warehouses and DCs to optimize inventory levels.

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Logility

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Just like every aspect of our modern society, the COVID-19 pandemic has tested how food and beverage (F&B) networks navigate continuous and dramatic changes. The results of their work allowed the company to carry seven to 13 days of inventory, down from six to eight weeks previously. Plus, it saved US$4.2

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. In food and beverage companies, I think that we are at a supply chain crisis. Buying patterns are changing quickly, and the insights are multi-dimensional.

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Logility

JANUARY 28, 2022

Granted, consumer sentiment is notoriously volatile, but research consistently shows consumers will use their purchasing power to advocate for sustainability. One key finding: 85% of respondents indicated that they have shifted their purchase behavior toward sustainable products over the past five years. Play Offense.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 11, 2023

As the backbone of your supply chain, the right warehouse not only provides a space for storing inventory but can also influence the speed and efficiency of order fulfillment and affect your reach in the market. They handle inventory management , order management , picking , packing, shipping, and even returns.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I was on a call last week with a large company in the food and beverage space that has spent $100s of millions, and many years, on an ERP deployment. They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. However, excellence in corporate planning matters.

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AIMMS

JULY 9, 2015

Volatility impacts every aspect of a business, from purchasing to production to logistics. C ommercial departments often have trouble assessing what clients will buy, their forecast accuracy is simply not up to par. Let’s take the example of inventory optimization. How companies are innovating.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

Building supply chain resilience isn’t a new goal, but it’s become a primary focus for supply chain leaders in the wake of the pandemic crisis, particularly in the hardest-hit industries, such as food and beverage. They increase their perfect order rate by 20% to 40% and customer satisfaction by as much as 30%.

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