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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

Logistics Viewpoints

The distribution center (DC) hadn’t released the order, but customer service didn’t have access to the right systems to see exactly what was wrong. Customer service couldn’t call the DC, only email them, and her emails weren’t getting responses. Only persistent calls got my order back on track. Check the reviews of your provider.

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What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022

The Logistics of Logistics

As noted by DC Velocity , “ most freight forwarders, traders, and shippers expect more disruption in the 2022 third-quarter peak season than they felt last year. As explained by Forbes , e-commerce will account for 20.4% of global retail sales by the end of 2022. However, with that growth comes the expectation for more disruption.

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Vanguard Voice – Issue 107

Vanguard Software

DC Velocity – How to improve supply chain management for small businesses. Request a Demo Today. Get a Demo. July 22, 2021 – Shippers are moving freight earlier, while carriers are trying to plan ahead and add capacity if possible. Could the congestion last through Lunar New Year? Ready to get started with Vanguard?

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With Crisp, PANOS cooks up insights to feed the whole family

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PANOS’ operations team tracks on-hand inventory at DCs in Crisp to determine just how much product to send to their distributor customers and when. For instance, they might see in Crisp that one product has six weeks of supply at a given DC, and they know a certain shipment quantity will be sent to retailers soon.

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What’s new in Crisp? Master your Walmart supply chain, reorganize retail data, and more

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Crisp’s new In-Stock dashboard helps brands track service levels to Walmart and understand in-stock rates by account, portfolio, store, or DC. Contact us today for a demo. In-stock rates are a critical metric to evaluate supply chain success. The Loblaws Sales Dashboard.

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How Crisp and Databricks enable retailer-supplier collaboration

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To get started using Crisp with Databricks, visit the Databricks Data Marketplace and request access to the Crisp data or request a demo from the Crisp team. A quick search for Crisp reveals four data products available to suppliers authorized by their retail partners for data access.

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Inventory and forecast data from retailers: After your product ships (Part 2)

Alloy

Units on Hand Units on Hand is the number of units of a product that are physically available at a given point along the supply chain, such as a store or retailer DC. It also provides brands with insight into retailer replenishment models, especially from DC to store, so you can make actionable recommendations.