ToolsGroup

JULY 12, 2023

BOSTON — July 13, 2023 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced the launch of Dynamic Fulfillment, a new addition to the JustEnough retail planning and execution suite. Stay in touch with ToolsGroup on LinkedIn , Twitter , YouTube , or visit www.toolsgroup.com.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 3, 2022

BOSTON — August 4, 2022 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in AI-driven retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, announces it has appointed Jon Purdy as Chief Financial Officer and Joseph Luciano as Chief People Officer. ToolsGroup welcomes Jon Purdy as Chief Financial Officer and Joseph Luciano as Chief People Officer. .

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 7, 2023

The dynamic sourcing capability automatically smooths inventory targets day after day and ensures target service levels are achieved regardless of supplier constraints. Stock Mix Optimization : The setting and planning of differentiated and market-oriented service level targets as an optimal compromise between service and inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In 2017, Flytrex successfully launched the world’s first fully autonomous urban drone delivery system in Reykjavik, Iceland, and we covered that initiative in these pages on June 15, 2018. Maybe try Boston next? When in-transit shipping time began to improve quickly, Nike CFO Matthew Friend said, it led to swelling inventories.”

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 16, 2023

This empowers the company to better manage inventory and increase customer satisfaction and service levels, all while improving profit margins. Our flexible, customer-oriented approach helps us set the standard for service and innovation in the water technology industry,” said Ilaria Mercanzin, Group Demand & Resources Planning Manager.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Leaders from Bose, Boston Scientific and ON Semiconductor shared key lessons from their supply chain transformations, including what led them to consider change. As your company evolves, systems that once worked become disconnected, inefficient and unreliable. Purchasers don’t have visibility into existing inventory.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

I watched a TED Talk video by Philip Evans, from Boston Consulting Group and shuddered to think that all our traditional fulfillment and inventory models can be drastically transformed by the “consumer”. Sure, we’re concerned, and in some cases stocking more inventory at local distribution centers. It’s the consumer.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 30, 2022

BOSTON (May 31, 2022) – ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, announced today that Joe (Yossi) Shamir will retire from his role as CEO. ToolsGroup is how organizations improve product availability while right-sizing inventory, no matter how complex their supply chain is or how much demand changes.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

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. 5) How can the gig economy and ride-share companies support delivery needs in the midst of ongoing workforce shortages.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Importers are trying to push 30 percent more thru a system that is running at 70 percent throughput aainst the old level. In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. My thought was to combine my experience working on visibility solutions with Descartes Systems Group and Manugistics with recent research data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

I gave thanks when the Patriots jet—championed by Mass General and Robert Kraft (owner of the Patriots)—landed in Boston with a million masks. Instead, use demand sensing technologies to detect patterns with minimal latency into inventory requirements. The supply chain is a complex, non-linear system. Evaluate Inventory.

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Kanban Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2024

Reduce infrastructure costs Traditional warehousing requires significant upfront investments in infrastructure, including building or leasing storage facilities, implementing technology systems, and hiring and training staff. By outsourcing to a 3PL , you can eliminate or significantly reduce these initial capital expenditures.

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Logility

AUGUST 15, 2012

Interest in inventory optimization continues to increase as companies seek a more efficient way to reduce excess inventory while maintaining or improving customer service levels. Multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) is also playing a larger role in the sales and operations planning process (S&OP).

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

MUNICH & BOSTON — 23. Emma will replace its old error-prone, manual spreadsheet-based planning with ToolsGroup Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+) for inventory optimization, fulfillment, demand modeling, and replenishment. About ToolsGroup.

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Logility

AUGUST 15, 2012

Interest in inventory optimization continues to increase as companies seek a more efficient way to reduce excess inventory while maintaining or improving customer service levels. Multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) is also playing a larger role in the sales and operations planning process (S&OP).

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. Each company defines supply chain organizations slightly differently and balance sheet progress requires the management of a balanced scorecard in a complex, non-linear system. The reason? The reason?

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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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Enterra Insights

APRIL 21, 2021

Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) explain the first three revolutions were driven by steam, electricity, and automation. Systems generate data and produce reports independently, with the result that decisions are made separately, undermining efficiency.”[2] They include: Inventory Optimization.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2023

With the maturation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, predictive analytics have grown in importance. To highlight that point, Tyler Vigen , a Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), started a site called Spurious Correlations. The difference between traditional forecasting and predictive analytics is granularity.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

Innovation and supplier management calls for cloud-based integrated systems between partners and advanced predictive models. Supply partners’ integrated systems provide competitive advantage through shortened supply operations and speedy decision-making. Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) are key enablers for Industry 4.0.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to Kate Ferrara ( @KateFerrara1 ), national retail, wholesale and distribution sector leader for Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Risk & Financial Advisory practice, “A lot of retailers have had antiquated systems [and] older supply chains. We have to fix our supply chain. This isn’t a nice-to-have anymore.'”[4]

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to Kate Ferrara ( @KateFerrara1 ), national retail, wholesale and distribution sector leader for Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Risk & Financial Advisory practice, “A lot of retailers have had antiquated systems [and] older supply chains. We have to fix our supply chain. This isn’t a nice-to-have anymore.'”[4]

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 9, 2023

Retail journalist Ben Unglesbee writes, “Hey retailers, it might be time to ditch your stores, move your inventory to the metaverse, replace your staff with robots, switch from cash to crypto and invest all your profits in some blockchains.”[2] ”[2] Hopefully, his tongue was firmly planted in his cheek when he wrote that.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 15, 2020

She explains, “In the past decade, businesses focusing on growth and evolution have implemented multiple systems to help them store, manage, and evaluate information as the first step towards digital transformation. The challenge here is that the information usually resides in disparate systems. ” Footnotes. [1]

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I live in the Greater Boston area. This provides me with the valuable convenience of visiting with the innovative warehouse robotics companies in this metropolitan area – a large number of companies I called the Greater Boston Robotics Cluster. But slowly the systems improved in speed and accuracy. Jon Schechter.

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RFgen

JULY 15, 2020

The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) has partnered with MIT and Ava Robotics to bring a new sanitizing robot into their distribution centers to fight COVID-19 spread. The GBFB’s new robotic sanitation system eliminates COVID-19 virus particles on surfaces and in the air throughout their distribution facility. Industry 4.0

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

They came to Boston to tell us the story of Llamasoft. It could no longer be just about inventory levels. This analysis needed to be completed monthly and fed to newer forms of inventory optimization technologies. As Sales and Operations Planning became more important, supply chain design became more systemic.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 27, 2014

by CJ Wehlage If you read my prior blog, “ Storage Wars rescues supply chain ignominy ”, you would have seen my garage after I moved from Boston to San Diego. Every box we collected for 16 years, stuffed in the Boston attic. Know your inventory, what needs to turn now, this week, this month, etc.

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Locus Robotics

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Automated systems and robots can take over many of these tasks, reducing workplace injury risk. Automated systems can process and handle orders significantly faster than human employees, reducing the time required to complete tasks. The warehousing industry accounts for 8% of 2.8 million nonfatal work-related injuries a year !

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Talking Logistics

JULY 12, 2017

2 Real-time Network Inventory Control and Planning. Too often we think about inventory in a linear way. We have suppliers that provide the inventory to select warehouses and these warehouses supply customers at the appropriate time and place. Will they share inventory? Can they ramp up inventory when needed?

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Notable appointments include work in the federal government as Attorney-Advisor (International Affairs) in the Office of the General Counsel at the Federal Maritime Commission and work at a public port authority as Maritime Project Manager for the Port of Boston at the Massachusetts Port Authority. exporters, importers, and the U.S.

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EMERGE App

JANUARY 1, 2020

Boston Consulting Group – Cross-Border Payments presentation by Sukand Ramachandran, Sibos, Boston 2014). We’ve got you covered if you’re using an inventory management system like EMERGE App. We know that you don’t use your inventory management solution in isolation. How do we know all this?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Fox is located in Singapore, and I am in Boston. The robots in the system must be capable of dynamically traversing from origin to destination along multiple paths. Mobile Warehouse Robotics Mergers & Acquisitions 6 River Systems was acquired by the Ocado Group in the spring of 2023 from Shopify.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

More than ever, seasonal inventory needs to be carefully accounted for during the demand forecasting and inventory planning process , ensuring right-sized inventory that can meet customer expectations while limiting the spend and use of working capital. Benefits of Effective Seasonal Inventory Management.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 27, 2017

Depending on the industry and size of the company, a business can spend more than 40% of its annual freight budget on inbound shipping, according to the Aberdeen Group, a research firm in Boston. The advantages of such a turnkey inbound freight management system are numerous.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Despite significant advancements in the technology to support omni-channel, adoption of transparent cross-channel inventory has yet to become a reality at most retailers. Now retailers must work to broaden their vision, realign processes and replace their legacy systems. The desire is strong and the need is clear.

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IQMS

JUNE 25, 2019

By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics and Utilities industries are projected to spend $40B each on IoT platforms, systems, and services. The senior management team at the manufacturer says the pilots are worth it if they can find a way to increase inventory turns just 10% using blockchain and IoT.

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