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Managing the Long Tail of the Supply Chain Part 4: Five Takeaways

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service levels with 20% inventory reductions. In industries such as e-commerce, consumer goods, food and beverage, electronics, aftermarket, and industrial distribution, companies are seeing 50% and more of their revenue coming from long tail demand items. Now Almost Everyone has a “Long Tail. Dart is not alone.

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The Long Tail of the Supply Chain: Part 2 - Pareto is Dead

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In the recent Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) web seminar entitled “ Driving Results Despite Item Complexity ”, one slide quoted her as saying previously,“If the products have a skewed distribution and it is your desire to meet a higher service level, then the deterministic technologies of APS and ERP are not designed to meet your needs.”. “The

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Enabling collaborative sales, inventory and operations planning are part of the company’s goals, as it seeks to more closely connect with its customers and supply base. The company uses various digital tools throughout its supply chain in such areas as planning, purchasing analytics, smart factory and digital customer logistics.

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