ThroughPut

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The new capabilities enable businesses to solve the unending challenge of balancing their inventory-to-sales ratio with accurate demand planning and buyer behavior analytics. This enables businesses to meet demand profitably, without risking either understocking or overstocking. ThroughPut.ai

Price Reduction 98

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a wide range of consumer products, including bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. Georgia-Pacific (GP) has demonstrated an application of Causal AI to dramatically improve touchless commerce.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 1, 2017

While expanding capacity with new construction is certainly one solution, other ways exist to get more throughput and capacity in distribution centers without major overhauls to existing operations. This idea can be a double-edged sword in the arsenal to improve throughput and capacity in your distribution centers.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Raw material inventory management oversees the procurement, handling, and storage of raw materials. It ensures you maintain optimal raw materials inventory levels, and therefore plays a crucial role in optimising your manufacturing processes. In this guide: What is raw material inventory management?

Inventory Management Software 52

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 6, 2021

So your company is looking to reduce costs, and you’ve been asked to contribute by reducing your inventory cost. That makes sense – inventory is one of the most capital intensive areas for any product business. Here we explain how you can do this with 16 cost reduction strategies in inventory management?that

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Inventories at U.S. Target has been testing high-capacity van routes at Dallas and Minneapolis sortation centers. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

Negotiating Skills 202

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QAD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Transportation, scheduling and on-time delivery are important for any manufacturer and inventory manager to keep manufacturing and supply chain businesses running smoothly. What do these two stories have to do with manufacturing and inventory management ? Automating Inventory Management and Material Transfers.

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Unleashed

JULY 12, 2023

Inventory is often the largest current asset in a business. Before you develop an effective inventory management strategy you need to understand what inventory is, its various types, and how it works in a business. What is inventory? Inventory is the stock of goods and materials currently owned by a business.

Inventory Reduction 52

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ToolsGroup

JULY 27, 2021

On the surface, it seems like the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry performed better than most during the COVID pandemic. Make Sure Your Inventory is Healthy. Getting to healthy inventory levels is a natural result of leveraging downstream demand with demand sensing. Read more of Boise’s story here.

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply and Demand Supply Chain Planning Software Gartner 290

Unleashed

MARCH 8, 2023

Choosing the best inventory management software isn’t easy. This guide is designed to inform you which features are most important, the best time to invest in inventory software, and the costs you can expect to pay. Key considerations Manual management of inventory is time-consuming and prone to error. What’s your budget?

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 3, 2021

According to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal , FedEx is struggling to deliver packages on time. From March through mid-April 2021, late deliveries occurred across 13% of FedEx packages and 5% of UPS packages. Some shippers are not getting their packages delivered on time. day average on all deliveries.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 3, 2021

According to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal , FedEx is struggling to deliver packages on time. From March through mid-April 2021, late deliveries occurred across 13% of FedEx packages and 5% of UPS packages. Some shippers are not getting their packages delivered on time. The issue is relatively simple.

Capacity 52

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The announced rate hike was justified by executives by a need to boost revenues amid an estimated 11 percent decline in daily package volumes and acknowledgement that the company now has more capacity than current transport demand. The dynamics of the market are such that something has to give. Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved.

Cost Reduction Strategies 52

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Inventory configuration is usually the predominant issue in most manufacturing environments. Inventory policy is usually the predominant issue in most distribution environments. Here are five types of inventory optimization that you should be aware of if you are considering an optimization solution.

Modeling 120

Modeling Inventory Reduction Network Optimization Price Mitigation Strategies 120

Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

In most cases, their legacy ERP or supply chain solutions cannot support the real-time, frequent forecasting and inventory planning needed to get ahead of margins pressures, rising costs, and shifts in consumer demand. Batch manufacturing is more controlled and optimized, improving inventory turns and production scheduling efficiency.

Consumer Goods 185

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 27, 2021

Supply and demand are two sides of the same coin, the vital coin of inventory management supply chain analytics. Without adequate inventory and supply to go along with capacity and demand, supply chain management will struggle to keep pace during peak seasons.

Inventory Reduction 52

Inventory Reduction Vendor Strategies Cost Reduction Strategies Sourcing Strategies 52

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

Or, alternatively, a company carries too much inventory, storage for excess inventory must be purchased, and cash flows become tight. Franklin Sorts buys deflated balls, packaging material, and a ball pump. This warehouse provides inventory storage for goods not yet ordered that will ship later. When she joined, Ms.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Overworking your limited resources or late deliveries can never be long-term solutions and that’s why every business needs capacity planning. Now you might think, capacity planning isn’t too complicated. Capacity planning is so much more than that.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Capacity Food 52

ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Overworking your limited resources or late deliveries can never be long-term solutions and that’s why every business needs capacity planning. Now you might think, capacity planning isn’t too complicated. Capacity planning is so much more than that.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Capacity Food 52

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

Focus on improving operating margin, inventory turns, and revenue/employee simultaneously. The goal is to move the supply chain away from a functional cost-based agenda to focus on value (improving margin, inventory, and revenue/employee simultaneously). Seasonal Inventory Build or Asset Capacity to Ramp for a Seasonal Demand Usually.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2021

Brett Biggs, an executive vice president at Walmart, summarized the investments by saying the retailer is spending on increased fulfillment capacity, supply chain, automation, and technology. Walmart is also investing pickup and delivery capacity. The packaging algorithms do not work if this data is not up to date.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Although port volumes increased in August, demand remains lower as shippers continue to face excess inventory levels. Agility Robotics , the creators of the bipedal robot Digit are bringing the world’s first factory for humanoid robots to Salem and say they will soon have the capacity to produce 10,000 robots a year.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 27, 2021

2021 Supply Chain and Inventory Management Trends for the US. Here we are, one year later, trying to determine the 2021 supply chain and inventory management trends to adopt. Hardware is one prime example; we don’t have drones delivering packages quite yet, but robots can be found within warehouses such as Amazon.

Inventory Management Software 96

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Higher labor costs and lower package demand resulted in fourth-quarter sales and 2024 guidance that missed analysts expectations. UPS is seeking alternative strategies for its truck brokerage business, which has seen sales plummet amid a freight recession marked by declining rates and over capacity. At American Airlines there was a 34.1

Cost Reduction Strategies 234

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In supply chain management, it is widely accepted that holding enough finished goods inventory to fulfill every order is just too costly. The thinking goes that at some point, improving service levels means you are not adding inventory in a linear manner but rather exponentially. Ipsen also need to reduce their lead times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2022

The joint press release points out the technology’s ability to build palletized loads of department-sorted inventory and its strategic role in supporting Walmart’s goal of modernizing its vast supply chain network and allowing the company to transform its regional distribution centers to provide faster responsiveness to store orders.

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ModusLink Corporation

APRIL 22, 2024

End-to-end management of component procurement, inventory management, and JIT delivery. Dynamic inventory optimization to minimize lead times and reduce costs. Scalable production capacity to accommodate fluctuations in demand. Collaboration with eco-friendly suppliers and adoption of recyclable packaging solutions.

Electronics 78

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

You can align high-level business planning with detailed product forecasting to boost service levels, shorten cycle times, reduce inventory investment, and minimize obsolescence. Offering a forward-looking view, KPIs allow S&OP planners to see the impacts of alternative strategies from the standpoint of cost, service, and capacity.

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S&OP Supply and Demand Beverage Optimal Sourcing 130

ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Dynamic Fulfillment considers the item itself, inventory locations, and the different carrier options. It looks at the capacity of each location (i.e., Once it calculates this, it does your rate shopping for you and finds the lowest option that gets the package there on time so there’s no risk to customer satisfaction.

Purchasing Skills 156

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Inventory Optimization. Inventory Optimization involves decisions about the inventory level, the location, and the mix of products. And after that, I have to decide how much avocado inventory I have to hold, so I never have stock-outs or excess waste. How much capacity do I require?

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The company’s inventory, access, and security solutions integrate into existing systems to help businesses make their supply chain more efficient, accountable, and reliable in the first and final mile. About BoxLock. BoxLock is the industry leader in secure, unattended delivery technology.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 5, 2021

Joe Lynch and Mike Neme discuss the CPG supply chain and Mike’s approach to winning and managing business with emerging consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Hook Logistics utilizes a simple and intuitive platform to manage past orders, check inventory, and monitor/change current orders. The CPG Supply Chain with Mike Neme.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

USPS is raising rates on packages during the holiday season. Retail customers will see increases ranging from 30 cents to more than $6, depending on the weight of the package and the distance it must travel. Walmart estimates that inventory is still 15 percent above optimal levels. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Planning Software Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies 199

Logility

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Although I am fully aware of the product proliferation trend driven by customer segmentation, it is still eye watering to see that a store would carry 13 different varieties of olives or 48 different brand/package combinations of toilet paper.

Modeling 200

Modeling Supply Chain Planning Software Supply and Demand Supply Chain Optimization 200

QAD

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Charlie brought up a very common issue where a manufacturer thinks they do not have enough capacity. The supply chain disguises that issue as a lack of production capacity. This commonly occurred during the pandemic as the demand of many consumer packaged goods products changed due to changing consumer preferences.

Supply Chain Planning Software 95

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2023

Your Comprehensive Guide to Production Planning Software The benefits of production planning software vs scheduling are about the granularity of the plan: capacity plans (or master production schedules) are not granular and factor in less granular things, like high level capacity, forecasts, inventory, and transfer times.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Today we will talk about the flow of strategy as pertains to inventory flow and driving warehouse efficiency. Staying Strategic in the Warehouse with Better Inventory Flow. Throughout the entire order fulfillment process, companies have a duty to ensure optimum warehouse efficiency by appropriately controlling inventory flow.

Inventory Reduction 120

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