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February LMI Report Points to Inventory Surges

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights indications providing added evidence that manufacturers and retailers are front loading inventory management actions in attempts to initially hedge against added U.S. We cited indications of the post Lunar New Year ramp-up of global production levels to replenish inventories, more so than in prior years.

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The Ecommerce Fulfillment Blind Spot with Kyle Bertin

The Logistics of Logistics

Since launching in 2022, the company has partnered with dozens of 3PLs, empowering them to process tens of millions worth of returned inventory for leading brands across the US and Canada. Like e-commerce and returns, Two Boxes employees are everywhere, with core teams in California and Colorado. The company has secured $4.5

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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #10 Failure to adequately train your supply chain planning staff

Kinaxis

Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. A bad decision can result in missed orders, significant inventory, or scrapped materials. By doing this, they could potentially save the company millions of dollars in excess inventory. Reason #3 Not having end-to-end supply chain visibility.

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Resilience by Design: The Power of Simulation in Supply Chain Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, Colorado should be serviced by the plant in Texas in certain months and by the California plant during others. The manufacturing capacity for each plant is the same (90K units per month), and there are no maximum inventory constraints. How will the solution be different for stochastic optimization VS a classic one?

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Colorado also adopted the rule but will have a heavy duty truck provision begin in 2027. So, wish me luck in securing authentic University Blue Jordan IVs.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

VF Corporation (VFC) is a global apparel, footwear and accessories company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. There will be one view of inventory across the entire distributed network.”. Because there is now one global view to inventory, the right warehouse can be leveraged to support order flows. Conclusion.

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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #8: Keeping supply chain information in silos (and preventing your users from making the best decisions)

Kinaxis

Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. Reason #3 Not having end-to-end supply chain visibility. Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Reason #5 Not having a supply chain risk management process. Reason #7 Making decisions based on bad data (supply chain data accuracy).