Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the past five years, companies have 5-10X the number of AGVs in their warehouses, but 40-60% more planners in corporate. We have successfully reduced warehouse labor, but planning is more labor intensive today, and less effective. The supply chain has two important buffers–inventory and capacity. Performance Declines.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 19, 2023

However, for companies with extensive inventory and warehouse facilities, integrating a Warehouse Management System with their ERP system can bring additional value. What is a Warehouse Management System? A Warehouse Management System (WMS) plays a vital role in efficiently managing inventory within a warehouse.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Today, is day two of our annual year-end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 5 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , Transportation Management , Freight. There were approximately 220 blog posts in 2017, and over 360,000 page views on those posts alone. Share This: Read More.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

We continue our top blog posts of 2014 from our main categories today by focusing on something at Cerasis we are experts in : Logistics. We’ve already listed the top 10 manufacturing blog posts and the top 10 supply chain blog posts last week. Some logistics involves transportation or warehouses or both.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Inventory Management Introduction: In the rapidly evolving tech industry, maintaining optimal inventory management practices is crucial for sustained growth and competitiveness. This blog delves into industry-leading inventory management best practices.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Introduction: In the rapidly evolving tech industry, maintaining optimal inventory management practices is crucial for sustained growth and competitiveness. This blog delves into industry-leading inventory management best practices. It involves receiving, tracking, and efficiently storing these products.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Introduction: In the rapidly evolving tech industry, maintaining optimal inventory management practices is crucial for sustained growth and competitiveness. This blog delves into industry-leading inventory management best practices. It involves receiving, tracking, and efficiently storing these products.

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2023

Just think about the last time you brought your car to the service or asked a service for your dishwasher only to hear, that the part required to fix the problem was not available and had to be ordered from the central warehouse and it would take a few days. Have you looked into inventory solutions? What did you think about that?

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ThroughPut

MAY 26, 2020

What is Warehouse Management Software? A Warehouse Management Software (WMS) is one that helps plan, control, and manage the day-to-day manufacturing operations in a warehouse along with the guidance of inventory movement, optimizing order picking, and shipping of customer orders. Greater warehouse productivity.

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IQMS

JULY 22, 2019

The Warehouse Inventory Management Software market grew to $1.4B Warehouse Inventory Management software and systems help reduce infrastructure costs and enable the reallocation of existing IT resources to drive productivity improvements, according to IDC. How Warehouse Inventory Management Software improves efficiency.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Studies show that worldwide, companies spend an estimated $350 billion a year on warehousing, and this number is only estimated to increase with high dependence on traditional warehouse practices. Warehousing is a vital function of global supply chain management, however often overlooked. Lean warehousing.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2017

When it comes to the logistics industry, whether it's transportation management contracts or warehouse contracts, there are a million moving parts, and as many questions. In the below is a real world example of a consultant coming to a third party logistics company with the goal of choosing a warehouse and 3pl provider.

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OptiProERP

APRIL 25, 2023

However, with so many metrics to track, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. This blog post will outline the most critical logistics KPIs manufacturers and distributors should track. Shipping Time The time it takes to ship an order from the warehouse to the customer. Inventory KPIs 1. Order Management KPIs 1.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 22, 2020

In my decades of working in replenishment and inventory optimization, I’ve noticed that many companies seek solutions to symptoms rather than the underlying problem. They want to have an aging report for inventory or a report on vendor performance. Let’s examine the first: inventory aging reports.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Today is day three of our annual year-end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 5 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , Transportation , Freight. There were approximately 220 blog posts in 2017, and over 360,000 page views on those posts alone. The Top 10 Logistics Blog Posts from 2017.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In essence, a structured supply chain department as described in the blog can help you deliver the right supply chain strategy and goals which helps cost reduction, improve customer service, on-time delivery, and better working capital. Analyze performance metrics and implement improvements to enhance efficiency.

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QAD

JULY 1, 2021

Total manufacturing costs showcase how much your company spent to produce its inventory in a given period of time. This is not to be confused with the cost of goods manufactured (COGM), which refers to just the cost of inventory that was finished and prepared for the sale in the period. Notice that it’s direct materials.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 24, 2022

Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! A very important part of many businesses is managing inventory. Companies in all different industries need to have inventory in stock in order to remain afloat and deliver their products to customers in a timely manner and avoid inventory management mistakes.

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ThroughPut

MAY 26, 2020

What is Warehouse Management Software? A Warehouse Management Software (WMS) is one that helps plan, control, and manage the day-to-day manufacturing operations in a warehouse along with the guidance of inventory movement, optimizing order picking, and shipping of customer orders. Greater warehouse productivity.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 30, 2020

8 Ways to Improve Your Warehouse Fulfillment Efficiency! Key performance indicators (KPIs) provide an invaluable way to judge the efficacy of operations, determine opportunities for improvement, improve customer experiences , and better manage supply chain functions, including warehouse management. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Veridian Solutions

MARCH 10, 2020

Key performance indicators (KPIs) provide an invaluable way to judge the efficacy of operations, determine opportunities for improvement, improve customer experiences , and better manage supply chain functions, including warehouse management. It is calculated by dividing the cost of goods sold by the average inventory for a given timeframe.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In addition, those articles inevitably stimulate readers to post questions, which, over time, we try to answer in detail by creating new blog posts to address them. As we are often asked about KPIs for inventory management , that’s what we’re going to focus on in this particular post. 1: Inventory Turns.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Industries experienced severe operational and financial consequences with issues like supply shortages, supply and demand surges, inventory shortfalls and reduced productivity. can be measured to define this metric. Warehousing KPIs. It is also important for accurately measuring some financial KPIs. Outbound KPIs.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

According to the June report summary , the primary driver of the latest decline was the inventory metric, which reportedly contracted 6.5 Consequently, the warehousing capacity metric increased a reported 6.8 percentage points, noted as the second fastest rate of decline in this index’s history. percentage points in June.

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Stord

APRIL 24, 2024

From improved customer experience to greater inventory planning and forecasting, AI promises to make all of our lives easier and reduce those all-too-common supply chain headaches. Specific industries measure specific KPIs, and AI is an easy way to pull data in and get real, usable and actionable metrics back.

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Veridian Solutions

MARCH 12, 2020

The top warehouse key performance indicators impact the efficiency of both inbound and outbound warehouse operations. For instance, the cost of carrying inventory tells you how much you will spend (as a percentage) to hold and store your inventory annually.

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ModusLink Corporation

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the pivotal role that 3PL plays in modern supply chains and how partnering with experts like ModusLink can unlock success. They handle everything from warehousing and transportation to order fulfillment and inventory management, all while optimizing routes, transportation modes, and storage solutions.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 31, 2022

Inventory Management KPIs for Effective Inventory Analysis. Managing inventory is a complex business. Inventory management KPIs are important as they help analyze and track the performance of inventory management activities such as how stock is ordered, managed and turned. How to Choose Inventory Management KPIs.

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AB&R

MARCH 4, 2022

This article originally appeared on Definitive Technology Group (DTG)’s blog. Warehouse receiving impacts all aspects of operations, from inventory management to logistics. By adding mobility to the warehouse receiving process , supply chain leaders can eliminate wasted movement and data entry errors.

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BlueYonder

MAY 16, 2023

Blue Yonder believes continues to showcase its strength in warehouse and supply chain execution solutions. For the 12 th time in a row, we have been named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) report 2 —which is every year since the report began!

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solutions Marketing team explores new business challenges and innovation solutions to change the game and manage disruptions. This Part 2 blog post will explore the innovative solutions and initiatives that will ensure success for the digital journey. And how should they be solving for them?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 24, 2023

This process involves multiple stages, including receiving the order, getting parts and materials, manufacturing or assembling the items, picking and packing in the warehouse, shipping, and tracking the shipment to ensure successful delivery. With accurate inventory data, businesses can avoid stockouts, and reduce the costs of overstocking.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 27, 2024

Every aspect of operations, be it managing the inventory, forecasting demand or fulfilling orders was dependent on human wisdom and intuition. Real-time visibility was lacking, be it in warehousing or transportation, due to which delivery delays were common. Besides, AI is helping retailers optimize inventory, warehouse and pricing.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Inventory Optimization to Unlock Supply Chain Efficiencies with Cost Reduction. A recent survey shows that 40% of the supply chain industry is already optimizing its inventory and networking tools by adopting advanced technologies and this percentage is said to grow in the next five years. INVENTORY STRATEGY. DEMAND FORECASTING.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Companies tightly coupling the budget to S&OP have significantly higher inventories and lower growth than their peer group. Deployment of deeper statistical engines for inventory management with a focus on safety stock will improve inventory levels. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 28, 2024

Optimizing warehouse layout for better picking and storage efficiency. If production metrics are important, you may want to get data on: Machine and labor availability. How to apply metrics One challenge is deciding what metrics to use. Different departments have their own data needs and very specific metrics.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Finding ways to limit the handling of merchandise, including using cross-dock techniques in warehouses and “door-to-floor” methods in stores, where the merchandise gets where it is needed without ever sitting in storage. Inventory is retailers’ greatest asset AND liability. Retailers are losing $1.75

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