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How to Cut Costs by Improving Product Punctuality

MIT Supply Chain

Researchers at MIT CTL have developed a model that uses purchase order (PO) information to help retailers determine when many different types of products need to be shipped to meet sales deadlines. The research was carried out by two students, Brad Gilligan and Huiping Jin, for their MIT Master of Supply Chain Management (SCM) thesis.

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Augmented Reality (AR) is the Future of the Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Most people know the stuff they buy at the store is not made there and would likely come from a manufacturer. I started my industrial engineering career in a hot Southeastern ambient distribution center (DC) where innovation consisted of adding conveyor and sorters at several hundred dollars per FOOT! How do the products get there?

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Balancing sales and costs with the optimum level of assortment differentiation

RELEX Solutions

However, today’s consumers might choose to buy staples from a LAD (dried pasta, tinned tomatoes, bagged salad for instance) and more specialized items (e.g. For example, having five variants of what is essentially the same product can more than double DC inventory due to the extra safety stock needed to ensure availability for distribution.

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25 supply chain experts reveal the best tactics to optimize a supply chain

6 River Systems

I am buying a sheep and goat farm alongside a larger space for a garment factory so that I can control where the cashmere and wool is coming from, how it is processed and how it is manufactured before it is sent to my customers. . If you want to optimize your supply chain, the way to do it best isn’t to buy some fancy new machine.

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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. Search By Topic SUBSCRIBE NOW!

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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. Search By Topic SUBSCRIBE NOW!

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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. Search By Topic SUBSCRIBE NOW!