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10 Best Inventory Book for All Experience Levels

Supply Chain Opz

What inventory book can help you to cut inventory costs? In this article, we will show you 10 best inventory book that readers at all levels can learn from. Inventory Management Overview Many people think inventory management is a clerical task but they're absolutely wrong.

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My Take: Let’s Admit Seven Demand Management Mistakes of the Last Decade

Supply Chain Shaman

After two decades of process and technology refinement, excellence in demand management still eludes supply chain teams. Supply Chain Management (SCM) concepts are now thirty-years old. The first use of the term supply chain management in the commercial sector was in 1982. It requires a step for demand translation. .”

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What is Lean Retail (+ Why Retailers Must Embrace It)

ToolsGroup

Whereas retailers once purchased merchandise largely based on the gut instinct of trend-savvy buyers and the push of whatever manufacturers tried to sell them, nowadays, they need to take a much more customer-focused and data-centered approach. What is Lean Retail? You sell a full pallet of the item every week in most of your stores.

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The Next Great Disruption Coming to Supply Chains

Kinaxis

Google wrote a great book, ZMOT, or Zero Moment of Truth. 3PL’s, Contract Manufacturing, Suppliers, Logistics providers…. In essence, the consumer is putting a postponement demand on the brand. Philip Evans shares how today’s consumer is sharing a colossal amount of data to come to a buying decision.

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Driving Transformational Change

Supply Chain Shaman

There are over 10,000 change management books on Amazon. You might ask, “Why are so many people writing about change management?” ” Does anyone read the books? Recently, I coordinated a change management project for a major manufacturing company. Why then is Lora writing about it?”

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A River Runs Through It…

Supply Chain Shaman

Learn to navigate the river of demand. Realize that, within the organization, the concept of demand as a flow is not well understood. There are many misconceptions that must be challenged: 1) Demand Management Is Forecasting. Client Example of Demand Management Across Time Horizons. It was an ugly color.

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American Software Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results

Logility

Record Quarterly Bookings Accelerated Growth in Cloud Services Annual Contract Value. and Demand Management, Inc., each a subsidiary of the Company, congratulated Clark Mitchell, vice president of demand planning at Kontoor Brands, Inc., and Demand Management, Inc., Demand Management, Inc.