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Where are you on your capacity planning journey?

Kinaxis

by Bill DuBois Balancing capacity can be as challenging as walking a tight rope. Not enough capacity and you lose balance when it comes to delivery and customer satisfaction. Too much capacity and you lose your balance when it comes to costs and margins. Managing capacity, but in a way that makes it tedious and time consuming.

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Why inventory management should be a company-wide conversation

Kinaxis

by Alexa Cheater Don’t get caught having your company’s inventory management conversation alone! Re-evaluating your inventory management practices can help you overcome rising supply chain costs, increasing customer demand and the growing complexity of global operations. It can also help raise profits and reduce risk.

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Demand for Cost-Effectiveness Challenges Life Sciences Supply Chains

Logility

Looking at this information from the same view helps optimize production capacity, improve value chain efficiency, and accelerate response to emerging patient needs. Whether involved in discrete or process manufacturing, right-sizing inventory is always critical when mitigating risk and taking on new opportunities.

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7 Ways Businesses Can Manage Supply Chain Shortages in 2021

ToolsGroup

Use analytics to put your available inventory to the best use. Chances are you do have some inventory–make sure it’s being put to the best use with automation and data analytics. In more buoyant times, companies are often optimizing inventory to reduce cost or maximize revenue to grab market share. Knowledge is power. ?

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Lost Warehouse Inventory? What to Do and When to Write It Off

GlobalTranz

No one wants to think about lost warehouse inventory, and it can be organizationally frustrating to determine the best process to find, research, and rectify inventory discrepancies. Download ebook. Discrepancies between the physical and systemic inventory levels can make that job tremendously more difficult.

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Benefits of Digitally Transforming Supply Chain Planning in the Life Sciences Industry

Logility

Read more in the eBook: 5 Tips to Take Your Life Sciences Supply Chain Digital ). One of the objectives of a digital transformation is the ability to create a digital copy or ‘Digital Twin’ of the physical supply chain that accurately portrays the current state of capacities, capabilities, orders, inventory, assets, etc.

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Dynamic Fulfillment 101: The Cost-Based Approach and The Three Keys to Optimizing Your Total Cost-to-Serve

ToolsGroup

Dynamic Fulfillment considers the item itself, inventory locations, and the different carrier options. It looks at the capacity of each location (i.e., Get your free ebook now → #3 – Expected Revenue Estimation Okay, let’s pause to define our terms for a moment. 1 – Ship Cost The first component is ship cost.