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Inventory Management Best Practices for Tech Companies: Knowledgeable Insights by ModusLink

ModusLink Corporation

Supply Chain Management: Supply chain management takes on a comprehensive role in overseeing the entire journey of products, from their origin as raw materials or components through the stages of production, sourcing, and ultimately, final distribution to end customers.

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Inventory Management Best Practices for Tech Companies: Knowledgeable Insights by ModusLink

ModusLink Corporation

Supply Chain Management: Supply chain management takes on a comprehensive role in overseeing the entire journey of products, from their origin as raw materials or components through the stages of production, sourcing, and ultimately, final distribution to end customers.

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Inventory Management Best Practices for Tech Companies: Knowledgeable Insights by ModusLink

ModusLink Corporation

Supply Chain Management: Supply chain management takes on a comprehensive role in overseeing the entire journey of products, from their origin as raw materials or components through the stages of production, sourcing, and ultimately, final distribution to end customers.

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Managing inventory with ERP amid disruptions

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Companies should now focus on risk management when it comes to inventory. This involves: identifying what the critical components are; ensuring that these components can be sourced from multiple suppliers. The Theory of Constraints (TOC), a well-known process improvement methodology, can be applied to analyzing the supply chain.

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Fueling Success: Career in Supply Chain Guide

SCMDOJO

Demand Management: Predicting and managing customer purchases through qualitative and quantitative methods, reducing uncertainty in short-term incoming demand. Knowledge of Continuous Improvement Processes or Methods: Understanding and implementing continuous improvement philosophies.

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Observations on Artificial Intelligence in the Supply Chain Market

Logility

Demand Planning applications rely on a series of algorithms to take historical shipment data and turn it into a forecast. In a demand management application, the system is continuously monitoring forecasting accuracy. Upstream delays can be identified, allowing for contingency planning or alternative sourcing.

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. When I started, I believed that all Titans were making progress towards improvement on the balanced scorecard. The source of the data is public reporting of balance sheet information. I was wrong.