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Your Must-Have Gartner Debrief: The 4 Key Takeaways from Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2023

ToolsGroup

Balancing Inventory Remains the Key to Customer Service and Profitability Although fast expansion remains a priority for some segments (like medical equipment), many of the supply chain executives we spoke to named inventory levels as their main concern. ToolsGroup SCM “Spin the Wheel!” Still new to probabilistic forecasting?

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Adelante SCM and PINC Launch the First Annual State of Yard Management Report

PINC

Therefore, compared with transportation and warehousing costs, it is easy to see why investing in digitizing yard management operations has not been a priority for CEOs, CFOs, and even supply chain executives,” said Adrian Gonzalez, President of Adelante SCM and lead researcher.

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Cost and Complexity – Factory Perspective on Inventory Golden Rules

Arkieva

The purpose of this blog is to explain a basic costing challenge in factories and their impact on critical SCM analysis and decisions. Cost and Complexity – Factory Perspective on Inventory Golden Rules was first posted on March 2, 2021 at 8:03 am.

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The Importance of Value-Added Services in Logistics and SCM!

Supply Chain Game Changer

According to Adelante SCM’s recent research , 63 percent of organizations that use value-added services consider it a “very significant” business function. Types of Value-Added Service for Logistics and SCM. – Inventory Management. The post The Importance of Value-Added Services in Logistics and SCM!

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[Video] Ford Motor Company: Creating global data standards with SCM software

Kinaxis

by Melissa Clow This blog is part of a video interview series. My role is to help make certain that we have the most efficient supply chain, and the lowest possible inventories to enable us to sell the maximum possible number of units. Thomas, director of global capacity planning for Ford Motor Co. “My

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Supply Chain Matters Most Read Blogs in 2021- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues with our annual listing of our most read blog commentaries that were published and of keen interest to our readers during the year 2021. For these reasons, we elected to expand our profile from ten to the top twenty-five blogs of most interest in the prior year. The Countdown of Most Read.

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Is Inventory Waste or an Asset?

Supply Chain Shaman

We were discussing the results of the planning benchmarking work that we have just finished, and I was sharing some insights on inventory management when one of the panelists emphatically stated, “Inventory is a waste to manage. We feel so strongly about this that we do not have an inventory planning role.”