Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 11, 2015
When I was a small child growing up in the mountains of West Virginia in the United States, on snowy days, my family would gather around the kitchen table and play board games. To ensure clarity, let’s start with a definition. Focus on Multi-Tier Inventory Management. One of my favorites was the board game Risk.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 18, 2017
I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. As shown in Figure 1, the company has been unable to maintain balance on the portfolio of cost and inventory. Note that recent inventory progress is slipping against the improvements during the recession). Give examples, definitions and make it real. Amazon bought Whole Foods.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Elementum
JUNE 30, 2022
Over the last 2 years, Supply Chain teams have been struggling to procure and manufacture enough inventory. Suppliers will continue to ship orders in an effort to get the inventory off their books. The economy is definitely hitting a period of high volatility. This could be far worse than an economic speed bump.
Jaggaer
MAY 12, 2020
To cut through the fog of hype and disinformation, let’s remind ourselves of the definitions we have set out in our past reports. Through our review we recognized that managing the inventory of chemicals and the associated safety database manually on spreadsheets was cumbersome and inefficient. DIGITIZATION. DIGITALIZATION.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 15, 2022
The bonus incentive programs of the sales teams in software sent my humble West Virginia country girl roots into overdrive. Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel. In 2020, they were not.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 15, 2022
The bonus incentive programs of the sales teams in software sent my humble West Virginia country girl roots into overdrive. Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel. He saw all inventory as “bad.”
Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 22, 2022
In the next 40 years, the answer is (most likely) a definitive no. The two new prototypes are both based on the Hummingbird, which Wing says can carry about 2 pounds and has made hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Dallas suburbs, Virginia, Australia, and Finland. But are the Jetsons just a few centuries before their time?
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
150 
Let's personalize your content