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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. The focus of the transportation suites was on cost mitigation and price negotiation. Air expediting took on a new meaning in January, with air capacity down 18% and escalating prices. Over time, this changed. This has changed.

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Preparing Your Supply Chain for the Holidays

Talking Logistics

This means that there are fewer people available to transport goods over-the-road. The Capacity Crunch – Not only is there a shortage of drivers, there is also a shortage of truck capacity. With fewer people unemployed, more money is circulating around the economy and consumers can purchase more goods.

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An Insider’s Guide To Capacity Planning In Food Supply Chain Management

ThroughPut

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Overworking your limited resources or late deliveries can never be long-term solutions and that’s why every business needs capacity planning. Now you might think, capacity planning isn’t too complicated. Capacity planning is so much more than that.

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An Insider’s Guide To Capacity Planning In Food Supply Chain Management

ThroughPut

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Overworking your limited resources or late deliveries can never be long-term solutions and that’s why every business needs capacity planning. Now you might think, capacity planning isn’t too complicated. Capacity planning is so much more than that.

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The Top 15 Retail Trends for 2022

ToolsGroup

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Data source: eMarketer.

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AI This. Not So Fast.

Supply Chain Shaman

I am also developing a framework for my new book. I define supply chain excellence as year-over-year performance better than the peer group on this balanced scorecard. 06/2020 Kinaxis buys Rubikloud for 60M$. Procurement and transportation operated as islands. Stay tuned. They did it.

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Don’t Take a Holiday from Inventory Management

Talking Logistics

Especially since many retailers have already purchased and shipped their goods ahead of the looming tariff changes. For example, if the brand defines target production capacity for each style in the collection, material suppliers can anticipate their production orders for each month or quarter.