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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Focus on right-sizing inventories. These are our weakest links. What can be done?

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?

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How a WMS Helps Retailers Execute Click & Collect Capabilities

Veridian Solutions

It refers to the ability to buy online and pick up in store. retailers, up to 72 percent, lack click and collect capabilities, reports DC Velocity. This is essential to making buy online and pick up in-store, profitable, but it also ensures workers efficiently perform their duties. Click and collect is not a new concept.

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When to do SSOs (Store-Specific Orders)

SupplyPike

An SSO is usually requested by the buyer or replenishment manager, but the analysis of which stores need inventory and how much is often left up to the supplier. Type 03 orders go to the distribution center (DC) as opposed to type 07 orders which go to the store directly. Committed Buy SSO. So when should I do an SSO?

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How a WMS Helps Retailers Execute Click & Collect Capabilities

Veridian Solutions

It refers to the ability to buy online and pick up in store. retailers, up to 72 percent, lack click and collect capabilities, reports DC Velocity. This is essential to making buy online and pick up in-store, profitable, but it also ensures workers efficiently perform their duties. Click and collect is not a new concept.

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How to Cut Costs by Improving Product Punctuality

MIT Supply Chain

By tailoring transportation methods and distribution center processes to match the delivery speed required of each product, companies can reduce the cost of transportation, prevent excess inventory, and eliminate lost sales. This retailer excels at capturing opportunistic business. Lack of visibility. Performance improvements.

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Warehousing, the Rise of IT, Automation, and Now… Robotics

Logistics Bureau

In addition, while rivers and mountains stay where they are, other geographical features, like conurbations, change over time; associated factors such as labour availability and customer buying habits may change even faster. produces and ships ‘100% Pure Squeezed Sunshine’, or more prosaically, orange juice and other fruit juices.