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Outside-in Process Q&A

Supply Chain Shaman

The company aligns channel requirements with available donors and successfully drives bi-directional orchestration programs to manage the reverse bill of materials (red cells and plasma) and demand-shaping campaigns to drive the right donors to the blood drives based on inventory levels. Analyze inventory health.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

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

ToolsGroup

It examines multiple objectives and factors like shipping costs, location-specific operational behavior, and store demand, and then analyzes every permutation – in subseconds. 1 – Ship Cost The first component is ship cost. #1 1 – Ship Cost The first component is ship cost. What do we mean by expected revenue ?

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Shipping Less-Than-Truckload Freight in E-Commerce: Shipping Online Is More Than Just Parcel Shipments

GlobalTranz

Those that seek to succeed in shipping online need to know a few things about why less-than-truckload may be the solution, how customers’ expectations are increasing, and what benefits less-than-truckload offers. Since e-commerce exists around the globe, variety in shipping can amount to better cost management and fewer delays.

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Back to Logistics Tech School, 2022: the Lost Peak Season, the lingering COVID impact and more

Freightos

The low rates that triggered Hanjin’s bankruptcy in 2017 quickly became a thing of the past, as surging demand, congestion, and a litany of global shipping catastrophes pushed ocean freight rates into the stratosphere. While high, the shipping costs typically paled in comparison to the lost sales due to inventory shortages.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory Is an Egregious Symptom of Supply Chains Gone Wrong. Today, inventory fire sales abound. Headline news included Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl’s and Macy’s struggling with inventory bloat and offering deep discounts. Wall Street Journal Headline on Retailers Using Containers to Store Excess Inventories. My take away?

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2021 Supply Chain and Inventory Management Trends

EazyStock

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. Amazon has introduced 200,000+ robots moving inventory within fulfillment centers around the US, creating a more efficient supply chain. trillion by 2023.