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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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10 Ways IoT Can Improve Supply Chains

IQMS

The Supply Chain Management enterprise software market is growing from $12.2B 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. in 2017 to $20.4B in 2022, achieving a 10.7%

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Top Supply Chain Challenges for CPG companies in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

End-to-end supply chain visibility, planning, and execution support software are critical in agile supply chain performance. CPG companies that utilize an autonomous supply chain technology see a reduction in their inventory and cost and an increase in revenue. each with discrete plans generated typically in sequential batch runs.

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What is an Engineering Change Order (ECO)?

Arena Solutions

The engineering change order is sent to all key stakeholders (change control board or “CCB”) including engineering, quality, procurement, manufacturing, and external design teams or supply chain partners in many cases. Often small to medium-sized businesses make do with the tools they have to manage their product data.

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Five Tips on Sourcing Products From China

EMERGE App

Finally, whether you’re purchasing products locally or from overseas, be sure to use an order, purchase and inventory management system that’s written from the ground up to support international and domestic trade. Things like handling multiple currencies when dealing with suppliers and purchase orders.

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29 warehouse & automation experts share insights on how warehouse robots will impact industry employment

6 River Systems

From greater flexibility and scalability to productivity gains, a faster ROI compared to other automation solutions and better resource management, warehouse robots are changing the face of warehousing. Those inventory systems require more attention because of this (a human gig), as do programming and maintenance.

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Guest Blog Part 3: Listen to the Process

synchrono

The fact is, you need to keep evangelizing the project; particularly after the software goes live and rolls out across the organization. After implementing the software – and listening to the process – an issue came up where suppliers would receive replenishment signals, but wouldn’t know which facility initiated the order.