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How CPG Brands Can Harness the Power of POS Data

Silvon Software

For Greater Product Performance Visibility and Improved Sales & Demand Planning Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in an increasingly competitive environment, where the ability to access and analyze timely, accurate data can make or break a company’s success.

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Staying Ahead of Holiday Allocation Issues as a Candy and Snacks Brand

Alloy

Lead times from the manufacturer are calculated and shipping times to the retailer’s DCs are factored in even before the final leg of the journey to the store. Traditionally, your visibility ends at sell-in, going dark when the product leaves the truck at the DC. Usually order quantities are carefully planned ahead of time.

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Preparing Your Supply Chain for the Omni-Channel World (Part 3): Capturing and Reacting (in Nearly Real Time) to Moments of Truth

BlueYonder

In order to build the necessary agility and control over both the customer experience and associated profitability, the following processes need to be re-invented and integrated differently: Demand Planning. Figure 1 – Using big data and predictive analytics to improve demand sensing and shaping. Fulfillment. Transportation.

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RFID, AIDC and IoT News on Thow Shall Still Follow the 10 Commandments of Bar Coding Part 2

Supply Chain Digest

Commandment 9: Insist on User Friendliness Independent of the effort put forth to design a system, purchase hardware and develop software, the single biggest test of implementation occurs when an operator attempts to scan bar coded media. A larger question, would it be purely an IO problem or also a Demand Planning (Forecast Error) problem?

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Ocean Container Spot Rates Continue to be Volatile

Supply Chain Digest

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.

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Amazon Soon to Realize Important Robotics Milestone

Supply Chain Digest

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. So we claim it was not the high cost structure, it was the greed.

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Understanding the Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains 2025

Supply Chain Digest

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. So we claim it was not the high cost structure, it was the greed.

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