Operations and Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Forecasting Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Challenge. The halt at a key regional trading point is the latest hit to expedited shipping operations that have been buffeted during the pandemic. Alibaba Group Holding is facing a new challenge to its e-commerce dominance in China from a seemingly surprising source.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JANUARY 18, 2023

It helps ensure they will have adequate inventory available to meet future demand and avoid stockouts. Forecasting inventory is simple in theory, but difficult in practice. Purchasing and inventory management systems help buyers create more accurate forecasts. The best inventory management systems have a proven track record.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 14, 2024

These challenges involve grappling with extended lead times for parts inventory and navigating limitations in distribution center (DC) space. MBUSA is confronted with the task of creating highly precise forecasts and optimizing inventory levels, made more complex by the heightened volatility in demand.

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Consumers are now showing a strong preference for locally sourced, organic, fresh options and meal kits. This focus on fresh and healthy options means shorter shelf life and a need to optimize inventories and product flows to prevent spoilage.

Price Reduction 52

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 31, 2021

Now, these organizations expect 3PLs to manage inventory and help optimize fulfillment. You did not plan to handle this amount of e-commerce volumes, you do not have experience in picking and small parcel shipping, and your consumers want same-day and next-day delivery. Competitive Edge. Evolving Trends.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The work done by Terra Technology, in my opinion, is one of two accurate sources of benchmark data on forecasting in the industry. In the study, new products represent 17% of total cases shipped. I do not see the same results from the multitier inventory projects. For those that do not follow this work, let me give a preamble.

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o9 Solutions

AUGUST 12, 2021

As a result, it is becoming more difficult to predict where demand will occur—across both brick-and-mortar and omnichannel—and to efficiently source and fulfill the right quantity of products to thousands and even millions of locations. Robust modeling of these demand shaping activities can greatly benefit from ML techniques.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

There are two things Boeing and Airbus have in common, utilization of lean manufacturing system and strategic sourcing concept. However, the overall implementation of strategic sourcing is a bit different between the two companies. Moreover, products can be shipped to stores in-time then lost sales is minimal.

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Cognira

JANUARY 1, 2019

With 42% of retailers saying faster shipping is a top priority, these cost are set to go even higher. The Elizabethtown DC only has 1 unit on hand while Cedar Rapids, IA has 10 units. The delivery time from both DCs with UPS Ground is 2 days, but Elizabethtown is slightly less expensive at a cost of $10.26 vs. $10.80

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Cognira

DECEMBER 17, 2018

With 42% of retailers saying faster shipping is a top priority, these cost are set to go even higher. The Elizabethtown DC only has 1 unit on hand while Cedar Rapids, IA has 10 units. The delivery time from both DCs with UPS Ground is 2 days, but Elizabethtown is slightly less expensive at a cost of $10.26 vs. $10.80

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. is one of the industry’s most respected logistics sources. Shipping Gazette Daily News. Shipping Gazette Daily News. This was the result.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 23, 2015

All this is changing retailers’ thinking about a range of issues from inventory policies to fulfillment. They want to understand the source market—where it was made, the labor and other practices of the manufacturer, and so on. Free shipping or other trade promotional costs may be passed back to the supplier.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Introduction: Why Inventory Balancing? Inventory balancing (also called inventory rebalancing), the periodic transfer of inventory from supply chain locations with too much inventory to locations with too little, is an underutilized supply chain tactic. In such cases, inventory balancing is often the best option.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 11, 2021

Then comes the distribution – from the plant to the last DC in the supply chain. Pfizer has chosen to work with logistics provider to ship vaccines directly from their plants (in Kalamazoo and Belgium) to the various states and specified DCs. The definition of inventory is not just the vaccine, but all the components required.

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 29, 2009

Inventory Management/Optimizat. Parcel Shipping. Content Being Accessed: Reader Question: Reducing Sort Lanes to Reduce DC Costs. Supply Chain Digest is the industry’s premier interactive knowledge source, providing timely, relevant, in-context information. Demand Planning/Forecasting. Distribution/Centers.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Finished lenses are shipped to Distribution Centers (DC), we have 14 major DCs worldwide. The semi finished lenses are shipped to one of our 490 Rx Labs (prescription labs) where they are finalized based on our consumer’s prescription and needs. David Bourgoin] Yes, definitely.

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IQMS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Digitally enabling a warehouse increases order fulfillment accuracy, speed, and scale while eliminating shipping and receiving handling errors. Relying on a WMS, analytics, BI, mobile and real-time monitoring is decreasing costs associated with under-utilized inventories faster than expected while improving inventory visibility.

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Cognira

MAY 19, 2021

Replenishment usually did not include promotional inventory, and stores were burdened with monitoring and management. Ordering inventory for promotions manually, with a limited understanding of forecasts. Vendor’s Perspective. Inability to use the detailed promotional data holistically. Inability to target promotions.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Integrating a ship-from-store strategy can enhance customer service and serve as an important competitive differentiator. The challenge is determining if and when a ship-from-store strategy makes sense and how to best enable this fulfillment option without impacting store productivity and service.

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 19, 2022

Business challenges like sourcing from Asia with long and uncertain lead times now combine with demand uncertainty, which came to the forefront with the pandemic raging. In the second blog, we will discuss best practices in replenishment and inventory management. Robust Demand Forecasting is Critical for an Agile Supply Chain Response.

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 19, 2022

Business challenges like sourcing from Asia with long and uncertain lead times now combine with demand uncertainty, which came to the forefront with the pandemic raging. In the second blog, we will discuss best practices in replenishment and inventory management. Robust Demand Forecasting is Critical for an Agile Supply Chain Response.

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Alloy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Channel Performance in Walmart Luminate is intended to act as your single-source of truth for sales, inventory and forecast data. Channel Performance in Walmart Luminate gives you a true omni-channel view of sales, whether the purchase is in-store, delivered, shipped to store, picked up, or shipped directly to the customer.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Online sales are subject to varying sales tax laws in 45 states and Washington DC, and to complicate the matter further, some states allow cities and counties to create their own sales tax laws (known as Home Rule states). Origin-Based vs. Destination Based Sourcing. This does not affect individual sellers. A State-by-State Breakdown.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Having an agent detect how long it takes to ship from a supplier site to a manufacturing facility, and then doing a running calculation on how the average lead time is changing, is trivial math. A better forecast leads to carrying less inventory while maintaining or even improving service levels. But that was pre-COVID.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 2, 2022

They engaged consulting and engineering firms who were experienced in this arena, and ended up hiring a firm and awarding a project of $25 million to install automation, a new warehouse management system, equipment and processes in their DC. On the first day we managed to ship only 1% of our pre-startup level. The Crime and the Clues.

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Alloy

MAY 16, 2022

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. Inventory available to ship. Lead times.

Alloy 52

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Instead of million-dollar investments, start with digital automation basics: data collection, inventory control and WMS lite. Maturing trends in omnichannel retailing, consignment inventory, and complex global supply chains put more pressure on the warehouse to increase throughput, cut costs, and reduce inventory cycles.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Instead of million-dollar investments, start with digital automation basics: data collection, inventory control and WMS lite. Maturing trends in omnichannel retailing, consignment inventory, and complex global supply chains put more pressure on the warehouse to increase throughput, cut costs, and reduce inventory cycles.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

So how can Brick And Mortar Retailers turn their stores into a competitive advantage plus a source of greater profitability? When a store can’t sell the goods that have been shipped to them they have two choices. They can either markdown the goods or they can return the items back to the DC.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

China is not only an attractive market in terms of sourcing and manufacturing but also for the sale of goods due to the rapid growth of its middle class. That leads to extra inventory and extra costs and hence necessitates a substantial level of turnover in order to be financially feasible. Regional DC.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2022

2020 and 2021 saw retailers scrambling to meet increasing omni-channel demand via a range of new order-fulfillment and product-sourcing strategies such as curbside pickup and ship-to-store. million margin improvement from more effective inventory management, and a $1.4 The Power of Real-Time, Data-Driven Decision-Making.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 16, 2014

For example, Williams-Sonoma’s “Shop In Store, Ship to Home” program allows shoppers to place an in-store order that is then shipped to their home location for free. For example, one quarter of Staples online traffic currently comes from mobile sources and they expect this hit 50% soon. This makes accounting somewhat difficult.

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Supply Chain Network

MARCH 21, 2015

Just a few of the key questions in the Sourcing & Deployment component of Matrix Retail. Sourcing options for products continues to evolve with direct to consumer shipping from offshore sources challenging even established players like Amazon and Walmart. What are you going to sell? Where are you going to get it?

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In higher-traffic markets, Advance Auto Parts has “hub” stores that keep more inventory in-stock to give customers what they need when they need it. The new facility will allow the company to offer two-day shipping to most (about 90%) of the U.S. In early 2013, Belk launched a vendor-direct program.

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Logility

DECEMBER 14, 2012

This year’s 2012 Sailing to New Heights with Logility Award was presented to KGP Logistics, one of the country's largest single-source value-added suppliers of supply chain services, communications equipment and integrated solutions to the telecommunications industry.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 15, 2020

Much of the product was sourced from vendors all over the world, most significantly from Asia, where the company had absolutely zero experience in sourcing, supplier management, or logistics. When asked however the Supply Chain Inventory Planning team was confident that we had enough space. Books were easy.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 5, 2017

Figure 1 shows how various new data sources can enrich the demand-shaping effort. On the supply planning side, various improvements are required as well: The network model and number of stocking points to consider for replenishing inventory have increased exponentially.

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