ToolsGroup

JUNE 8, 2018

Gartner Research analyst Paul Lord has developed a thought-provoking approach (shown in the above diagram) for tailoring supply and inventory tactics to different inventory segments. Traditional ABC inventory models segment inventory into A, B and C categories based on annual consumption value. Lots of margin.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

Commercial teams operate in a ship-to environment, but the supply chain teams operate in a transactional world based on a ship from model. Visibility of the translation layer of ship to converted to ship from is not existent. A negative FVA increases cost, inventory, and risk. The reason? The impact is exponential.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

Demand Forecasting: Algorithms improve procurement planning by integrating live inputs like point-of-sale data, promotions, inventory levels, seasonality, and even weather data. Use Cases: Dynamic Route Optimization: AI models combine real-time data from GPS, traffic services, and delivery schedules to determine the most efficient routes.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Unfortunately, shippers may overlook the biggest obstacle to omnichannel, developing effective e-commerce shipping practices. To avoid the retail apocalypse and achieve omnichannel success, shippers need to understand the challenges of e-commerce shipping, how it contributes to omnichannel success and a few tips to succeed in it.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 3, 2025

However, cutting costs too deeply can put supply chain efficiency and customer service at risk, leaving you vulnerable to shifting consumer demands or supply chain disruptions. AI-powered tools improve demand sensing, optimize inventory, and manage exceptions—allowing organizations to do more with the same or fewer resources.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns. When compared to pre-recession years, we ended the decade with twenty more days of inventory. Days of Inventory Comparison. Help Me Improve Customer Service.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2014

I was involved in early Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) pilots. In my work at Clorox we were starting to ship to Walmart using Retail Link. The words collaboration, Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), and Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) filled the air. It was 1988.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Fred owned logistics and customer service for the organization. The warehouse I ran just completed a consolidation of three shipping centers. So, I was always struggling on a daily basis to establish a feasible plan to ship 180 trucks out of 22 doors in a twenty-four-hour operation. Dan’s peer was a man named Fred.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The data can be used to identify inefficiencies in the supply chain, improve inventory management, and streamline operations. Inventory management and warehousing Thousands of parts are used in automotive distribution. To manage this large volume of inventory requires an inventory management system.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

A supply chain built for resiliency allows a company to adapt to unpredictable forces while maintaining customer service. To build supply chain resiliency, leaders should consider these factors: Buffer inventory and shift away from JIT.? Build relationships with your 3PL for capacity and alternative shipping solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

Moreover, these ML-based transit time predictions can feed into shipment planning and execution processes to provide better decision-making that ultimately yields better customer service and cost performance. How machine learning is transforming logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2024

The goods flow through 3 import centers, 14 strategically located distribution centers in North America, 106 final-mile shipping hubs, and nearly 1,700 branch locations. A market distribution center has the capability of both regional distribution center and that of a final mile ship hub. Across the US, Ferguson has 6.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Specifically, there were spikes in demand, and even though there was a lot of inventory available, the demand was surging. Then we moved into a phase where we had stationary, stale, and suspended inventory because we couldn’t get to it; retail stores and distribution centers were closed, and seasonal inventory was very challenged.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Let’s Start With a Discussion on Inventory. When we look at table 1, we see burgeoning inventories in some industries and extreme shortages in others. We are not good at inventory management. Inventory Levels Over the Quarters of the Pandemic. Companies struggle to have the right inventories. The end result?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It is making use of inventory that is the easiest/fastest to get to the customer, no matter through which channel the order was placed. Numerous supply chain disruptions affected the ability to get inventory in time – or at all – and now that the backlog caught up, many organizations are experiencing a surplus of inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Unfortunately, e-commerce shipping practices, although different from traditional retail shipping, still fall short. Supply chain leaders need to understand why logistics fundamentals will continue to shape e-commerce shipping strategy. What’s Wrong With E-Commerce Shipping Practices? Digitize your fulfillment centers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service. Analyze Past Results in Customer Service. We draw a timeline on a conference room wall and using customer shipment and compliance data, we plot the issues with customer service and product outages.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The company can connect all aspects of the execution process, including labor cost and capacity, warehouse capacity, and shipping, and then integrating all of this data into their data cloud platform for a holistic view of OMS, TMS, and WMS. The end result is driving better decisions for the retail customer.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 17, 2022

The manufacturing industry faces many challenges, such as a skilled labor shortage, supply chain instability, and inventory management issues. Here are the challenges we’re seeing across the industry, and what they mean for your supply chain and your shipping processes. Supply Chain Management and Maintaining Inventory.

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Clear Spider

OCTOBER 21, 2024

From raw materials to shipping and storage, businesses across the U.S. Now’s the time for businesses to look back at the strain that rising inflation put on their supply chains and inventory management. In this blog, we’ll explain the impact of rising inflation rates on inventory and supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The ability of an organization to deliver reliable and consistent results for revenue, margin, customer service, and quality in the face of demand and supply variability. I am currently doing research on inventory management. In the research, I ask inventory planners to define resilience. We are not clear on definition.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By maximizing space utilization, improving inventory control , and boosting workflow efficiency, you can unlock significant cost savings and elevate your customer service game. Operational Efficiency: See an improvement in order processing speed, enhanced inventory accuracy , and smoother picking and packing processes.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 11, 2018

What’s Wrong With Omnichannel Supply Chain Strategy and Customer Service? Retailers are simply spreading their services too thin and creating new offerings in response to the Amazon Effect has had nominal results. Real-time visibility into inventory helps prevent abandoned purchases and streamline shopping.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

Supply chain resilience refers to planning for things that could go wrong and then creating inventory buffers or contingency plans. SCP solutions provide a solid ROI based on hitting targeted service levels with less raw material, work-in-process, or finished goods inventory. Or, the forecast might be much more detailed.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 19, 2023

Specializing in ecommerce order fulfillment and inventory management services, the company operates multiple warehouse facilities with over 1 million square feet of space across the United States. Red Stag Fulfillment sets itself apart by handling large, heavy, and high-value products that can be challenging to ship and store.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A warehouse management system is a category of application software that supports receiving, put-away, picking, shipping, and value added services. A WMS can drive almost perfect picking and inventory accuracy if SOPs are followed. Using a WMS in conjunction with AutoID can drive inventory accuracy of over 99.9%.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

According to Michael Khalil of Inbound Logistics, primary transportation management challenges in e-commerce include: Increased complexity of shipping strategy. Increased complexity may be the result of additional shipping volume and the use of the freight consolidation and the consolidation program. Faster shipping.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Inventories in the chemical industry are at record lows: a forerunner of bad days ahead.

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Balancing stock levels is criticaloverstocking can lead to excess inventory costs, while understocking risks losing sales. Similarly, transportation networks face increased strain due to higher shipping volumes, which can result in delays and rising freight costs. Accurate demand forecasting becomes paramount to striking this balance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Elenjickal points out that there is a difference between transportation visibility – where the truck or plane or ship is, inventory visibility – visibility to where stock keeping units are located across the end-to-end network, and order visibility. Today, FourKites can track order visibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

During the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, sectors such as automotive, electronics, and consumer goods experienced severe disruptions due to factory shutdowns and shipping constraints, primarily because of dependence on suppliers concentrated in Asia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

The challenges brought about by the pandemic made many rethink strategy when it came to inventory, stock on hand, secondary options and the ability to guarantee supply and resiliency. Their main reasoning was to contain supply chain costs, reduce the amount of space used for inventory at hospitals and ultimately help provide better care.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 31, 2023

Automating inventory and replenishment can also help avoid stockouts and missed sales opportunities. In this case, no voice-picking only had to deal with the return and the extra seller shipping costs, but there was a third consequence. Improve Inventory Management with a Voice Picking System How do you minimize mistakes like this?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Those shipments can move directly to customers or move to several regional distribution centers (DCs) that serve as forward inventory locations and consolidation hubs servicing customers and channel partners. Having better ETAs (estimated time of arrivals) improved operational performance and service levels.

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Logility

AUGUST 17, 2021

Managing consumer packaged goods inventory is challenging at the best of times, and it can be debilitating during times of local or international disruption. An advanced inventory planning and optimization solution allows these companies to set and maintain precise stock targets across a global network. Robust Inventory Management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Maersk has introduced Remote Container Management for its shipping containers. The glasses process inventory and product picking data locally, reducing the time needed to retrieve and fulfill orders compared to fully cloud-dependent systems. DHL has deployed smart glasses in warehouse operations as part of its Vision Picking project.

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