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ToolsGroup-IHL Group 2022 Retail Inventory Study Shows Diminishing Customer Loyalty Due to Out-of-Stock Concerns

ToolsGroup

Improving inventory position can help retailers secure consumer loyalty and capture impulse spending. Key findings include: Across sectors such as specialty apparel, mass merchants, department stores, home décor, electronics, and home improvement, the percentage of consumers decreasing trust in retailers to be in stock ranges from 28-36%.

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Grupo Mercury Adopts Digital Transformation Strategy Powered By ToolsGroup Supply Chain Solutions

ToolsGroup

Grupo Mercury has over 10 years of experience in the market, importing products associated with lighting, electronics, and Smart Home devices. Thanks to a built-in, AI-driven probabilistic forecast , these solutions account for variability and tailor inventory to demand, mitigating risk and uncertainty in demand and supply planning.

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Supply Chain Brain Webinar

The Logistics of Logistics

Longer lead times, complex handoffs between logistics providers, data flow between disparate systems…requires a new way of thinking for efficient inventory moves from origin to the final customer efficiently. a cloud-based payment platform delivering real-time electronic payment solutions for health benefits, points and promotional offers.

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Inventory Balancing: Research From Dell and Boston Scientific

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

Introduction: Why Inventory Balancing? Inventory balancing (also called inventory rebalancing), the periodic transfer of inventory from supply chain locations with too much inventory to locations with too little, is an underutilized supply chain tactic. In such cases, inventory balancing is often the best option.

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Defining Supply Chain Excellence: One Column at a Time

Supply Chain Shaman

Instead, what I observed when I looked at the data, was that most companies that I had worked with (in my role as an industry analyst, I had worked with over 300) were going backwards on margin and inventory turns. Resiliency is the pattern at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. “Ugh,” I said.

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10 Ways IoT Can Improve Supply Chains

IQMS

Blockchain shows potential for increasing the speed, scale, and visibility of supply chains, eliminating counterfeit-goods transactions while also improving batching, routing and inventory control. Improving track-and-trace reduces the need for buffer stock by providing real-time visibility of inventory levels and shipments.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

This summer has been an interesting one weather-wise in the Boston area. And obviously this is not only in the Boston area. The second program, called “FBA Liquidations” will allow sellers to use Amazon’s “wholesale resale channel and technology” to recover a portion of their inventory cost from returned items and excess stock.