ThroughPut

MAY 2, 2024

From stockouts to increased costs, excess inventory, and reduced customer satisfaction, there are endless issues. To remain competitive in today’s market, you need to remain operationally agile, allowing you to rapidly adapt to unexpected changes in demand and keep your inventory and demand balanced at all times.

Supply and Demand 52

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RELEX Solutions

MAY 3, 2018

Take spoilage ; if your DC is holding stock with a rapidly diminishing shelf life, then allocating it to stores with high inventory turnover increases its chance of being sold within its ‘sell-by’ dates. However, in most cases, it will also increase the inventory level as safety stock needs to be carried for both batch sizes.

Supply Chain Planning Software 31

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Nada is co-author of the book HUMACHINE besides plenty of other books. A similar idea that Nada describes in her book HUMACHINE. Google’s Cassy Korzakov already had her DI definition in this blog from 2019 , and Lorien Pratt published the book Link about decision intelligence in that same year.

Supply Chain Planning Software 78

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Scenario Planning Negotiating Skills 78

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2022

Amazon announces new changes to inventory limits. Amazon is making more changes to its inventory limits, including a new extra-large category and an increased price threshold for its small and light program. In addition, the USDA is offering a $125 incentive to pick up an empty dry container used for agricultural bookings.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 181

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GlobalTranz

MAY 26, 2021

In some industries, such as book publishing, catalog retailing, and greeting cards, over 20% of all products sold are eventually returned to the vendor. Surprisingly, for the traditional brick-and-mortar retail operations, returns are 3- to 4-times more expensive than forward (outbound) shipments.

Reverse Logistics 223

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2018

They may recall inventory from retailers or reprocess it because it has passed its sell-by date or demand is insufficient. Sectors like publishing of software, books, music, and so on, also offer another way to reduce returns.They increasingly make their wares digital instead of physical and sell on demand.

Reverse Logistics 40

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crisp

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This could include refining inventory allocation, adjusting product strategies, targeting marketing campaigns more strategically, or uncovering new market opportunities. By leveraging Crisp’s real-time data, ZURU has navigated sales trends and optimized inventory allocation, reducing markdowns by 50% last year.

Modeling Software 52

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 12, 2017

Very few are actually ‘designed’ What that means of course, is that most Distribution Networks become miss-aligned over time and this leads to excess inventory, excess costs and poor customer service. Customers are allocated to the most logical warehouse / DC to minimise delivery costs, taking into account #1 above.

Supply Chain Design Software 40

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

First the Distribution Centre (DC) ran out of storage space. Delays by the planning team in releasing orders to the DC resulted in a mad scramble to get goods to the stores and fill their empty shelves. On the first day of cutover virtually nothing shipped out of the DC. There were system problems all over the place.

Supply Chain Design Software 81

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 2, 2022

books) were more or less standard in format and size. These individual books would be picked into cases for each store which, when opened at the store, would include any number of different books to be unpacked and sorted through by store personnel. No one needed to open it in the DC. The old products (ie.

Supply Chain Design Software 92

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BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2018

I started in finance doing inventory control and working with the distribution center and supply chain. I was entrenched in distribution center finance for a while, just because I loved the whole dynamic of the DC. What was your role? I loved it! I learned a lot about supply chain from a finance perspective.

Supply Chain Planning Software 44

Supply Chain Planning Software Analytics Software Just-in-Time Supply Chain Network Software 44

BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2018

JM: I started in finance doing inventory control and working with the distribution center and supply chain. I was entrenched in distribution center finance for a while, just because I loved the whole dynamic of the DC. What was your role? I loved it! I learned a lot about supply chain from a finance perspective.

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

Supply Chain Planning Software Analytics Software Just-in-Time Supply Chain Network Software 40

Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 15, 2020

In the past there were a very standardized set of products that we offered: books. Sure there were hundreds of thousands of different books but from a logistics standpoint there was a well understood way of handling them. Books were easy. They were waiting until the DC had received all of the goods which only made matters worse.

Distribution 58

Distribution Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning 58

Supply Chain Network

MARCH 21, 2015

This used to be a much easier question based on the type of retailer you were, booksellers sold books, clothing retailers sold clothing, grocery retailers sold, you got it, groceries. What began with Amazon in books has spread to cover most if not all categories of retail products. What are you going to sell?

Retail 60

Retail Optimal Sourcing Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Design Software 60

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 23, 2019

In the past there were a very standardized set of products that we offered: books. Sure there were hundreds of thousands of different books but from a logistics standpoint there was a well understood way of handling them. Books were easy. They were waiting until the DC had received all of the goods which only made matters worse.

Distribution 50

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Books and Clothes are piled on shelves. Drop shipping would reduce freight costs, reduce time, reduce inventory and reduce DC costs as well. In many cases full pallets, direct from the supplier, are moved write onto the floor, the overpacking is removed, and customers pick their own product right off the pallet. Conclusion.

Waste Reduction 93

Waste Reduction Material Savings Retail Cost Reduction Strategies 93

BlueYonder

AUGUST 19, 2014

Jay Forrester, a professor at MIT, wrote a book in the early ‘60s called Industrial Dynamics. The book was the result of a study he had done to create a supply chain model. He studied a supply chain with many stores, retailer DCs, manufacturer DCs and factories and ran a number of models through it.

Manufacturing 60

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BlueYonder

JULY 13, 2017

The game results, measured by cost of inventory and back orders, never fail to improve in the Flowcasting-enabled game. This could be a result of connecting the store to the retailer distribution center (DC), or the manufacturing DC to the retailer DC, or from connecting the manufacturing plant to the supplier.

San Diego 40

San Diego Supply Chain Planning Software Conference Cost Reduction Strategies 40

RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Execution systems, on the other hand, are about forecasting , allocation, and replenishment (DC & store) and may offer additional tools to support those processes. The process is often supplemented with variations on these plans including open-to-buy plans, inventory-flow plans, key-item or ladder plans, etc.

Supply Chain Planning Software 28

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? In higher-traffic markets, Advance Auto Parts has “hub” stores that keep more inventory in-stock to give customers what they need when they need it.

Supply Chain Design Software 45

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Sourcing Strategies Inventory Reduction 45

RELEX Solutions

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Working with RELEX, Marimekko has been able to better manage inventory management and assortment planning, resulting in a 22% reduction in DC inventory and a 22% increase in company-level turnover. Learn more about our presence at the event or book a one-to-one meeting with our experts on the event’s information page.

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RELEX Solutions

JULY 26, 2016

RELEX Solutions, in collaboration with Columbus Consulting International , to support LifeWay Christian Stores with upgrading its supply chain management in order to reduce inventory and increase availability. LifeWay also publishes books and the widely-respected HCSB® Bible translation under the B&H Publishing Group imprint.

Forecasting Software 28

Forecasting Software Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Supply Chain Software 28

BlueYonder

JULY 13, 2017

The game results, measured by cost of inventory and back orders, never fail to improve in the Flowcasting-enabled game. This could be a result of connecting the store to the retailer distribution center (DC), or the manufacturing DC to the retailer DC, or from connecting the manufacturing plant to the supplier.

San Diego 20

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 24, 2015

The Kiva Robotic Picking System: The idea for the orange AGV-like robots that bring inventory to order pickers was first conceived in 2003 by CEO Mick Mountz, and with the help of some MIT professors Kiva brought the technology to market less than two-years later. P&G first implemented the approach with Schnuck’s Markets in St.

Supply Chain Planning Software 49

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GlobalTranz

MAY 18, 2021

Distribution Center (DC): A location where goods and materials are stored until they are ready to be moved to their end destination. Just in Time (JIT): Manufacturing system which depends on frequent, small deliveries of parts and supplies to keep on-site inventory to a minimum. Dead-Heading: Operating a truck without cargo.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 156

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Robert Eisenstein’s website, CardboardandCoins.com , is the central marketplace where folks go to buy baseball cards and all sports cards, coins, Pokemon cards and comic books, without having to experience multiple shopping cart hysteria, because everything is all under one roof, all from one vendor and further, shipping is always 100% free.

Optimal Sourcing 55

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The reason that cargo is booked today? And that results in ocean freight carriers booking…allowing a lot more bookings than they carry. In any of these scenarios, fixed capacity is a mismatch for that variant over in inventory. DC Velocity, which is a supply chain logistics magazine. They can plan better.

Modeling Software 31

Modeling Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Design Software Predictive Analytics Software 31

The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

I read a book a few years ago and I thought it was very interesting. You might be tracking their forklift at their DC or on a truck. If you had something inside that product that said, “It was on a forklift, truck and final mile delivery for this long,” you can start to say, “I can manage my inventory better.”

Prescriptive Analytics Software 207

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6 River Systems

JULY 3, 2020

He loves playing banjo and resides in Northeast DC. “Identify your production and supply chain methods first…” For instance, if you’re following the Lean Production Method, it means that you don’t need to stock minor accessories because most of your inventory consists of the finished products.

Supply Chain Design Software 52

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

If they actually follow through on their promise and oil prices continue to rise next year, how will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in response? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory. Alexa, How Much Inventory Remains at Store X?”

Predictive Analytics Software 50

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