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New Year’s Resolution #1 for Supply Chain Planners: Improve Performance Measurement

Demand Solutions

But regardless of whether you plan to read a book every week, go running every day at 6 AM, or finally put some money in your IRA, I believe the New Year is a perfect time to make some resolutions about your supply chain. To fill the 8th line item complete we had to ship the product from a DC across the country.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

Since UK is relatively small when compared with the United States, centralized control of distribution operations and warehouse makes it easier to manage. To make a decision about new DC location, Walmart uses 2 main factors, namely, the demand in the proposed DC area and the outbound logistics cost from DC to stores.

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Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51 and Market6 Data

Alloy

Brands can now log into the analytics platforms to access live store and DC-level data that they can use to manually extrapolate insights. The ‘Warehouse Inventory’ report shows daily inventory on hand by case and case GTIN. The purchase of Market6 was an effort by 84.51° to fill this gap, and in some ways it did. See what Alloy.ai

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Part 3 – A New Supply Chain Planning Paradigm for the Digital Value Network?

Supply Chain Action Blog

This kind of value network strategy goes beyond determining where to put a warehouse and to which stores it should ship. Target is redesigning the way their DC’s work, creating a flow-through operation with smaller replenishment quantities. And, then, there is the success of Walmart.com. Thanks for stopping by. ”

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Part 3 – A New Supply Chain Planning Paradigm for the Digital Value Network?

Supply Chain Action Blog

This kind of value network strategy goes beyond determining where to put a warehouse and to which stores it should ship. Target is redesigning the way their DC’s work, creating a flow-through operation with smaller replenishment quantities. And, then, there is the success of Walmart.com. Thanks for stopping by. ”

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Amazon: Disruptor or Distraction?

Talking Logistics

Amazon also has logistics partnerships with large brand companies, including P&G where Amazon is embedded inside P&G warehouses to fulfill direct-to-consumer orders on behalf of P&G (see Amazon Inside P&G Warehouses: A Case of “What’s In It for We” ). Is Amazon a disruptor or a distraction?

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Why Your Supply Chain Isn’t Best in Class

Logistics Bureau

4 – Fixing Warehouse Capacity Issues. Many companies start to worry that as their warehouses start to reach capacity, that they’ll need to start planning for new ‘larger’ facilities. Here are a couple of videos with one of our warehousing experts Mal Walker where he shares a few useful tips that will help you.