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10 Best Inventory Book for All Experience Levels

Supply Chain Opz

What inventory book can help you to cut inventory costs? In this article, we will show you 10 best inventory book that readers at all levels can learn from. Inventory Management Overview Many people think inventory management is a clerical task but they're absolutely wrong.

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Ann Grackin: Is the Crisis in Demand Management Being Exacerbated by Spreadsheet Dependency?

Logility

This blog post is in response to recent results from the APICS/Logility Survey, Consumer Goods S&OP research, and ChainLink’s end-user research. Demand management has always been at the top of supply chain professionals’ list of challenges. They had faster turns, lower inventory, and better customer service.

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Will the Internet of Things (IoT) Help Eliminate Information Latency and Deficiency in Supply Planning?

Kinaxis

In a 2013 survey by Business Continuity Institute of over 500 business continuity professionals from 71 countries, 75% of respondents reported that they did not have full visibility of their supply chains. Demand management General News Inventory management Sales and operations planning (S&OP) Supply chain management'

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Surviving an Economic Downturn in the Retail Sector

Enterra Insights

He explains, “A survey by bargain retailer Ollie’s found that 54% of consumers feel it’s a compliment when someone calls them cheap. And a recent survey from job site ResumeBuilder found 61% of companies expect more staff cuts in 2023. .”[2] Nevertheless, she observes, “Retailers are more on edge.”

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How Can You Seize Opportunity If You Cannot Manage Risk?

Supply Chain Shaman

Energizer and Unilever are driving the fastest rates of improvement and Clorox and P&G improvement rates are the slowest on the Metrics That Matter of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)). The traditional supply chain process only focused on the management of safety stock. What Is Risk?

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What the Analysts Are Saying About…A&D Supply Chains

Kinaxis

What caught my eye is that for each report, they do a deep dive on a specific industry and use a mix of financial data, survey research results and interactions with their clients to help get a better understanding of various industries’ supply chains. For the past several years, Supply Chain Insights has been delivering this research series.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

In our annual survey, supply chain planners rate low on job satisfaction. Simplistic thinking of trading-off customer service, inventory and cost became much, more complicated with the shifts in asset strategies. With greater pressure on shorter cycles and less asset availability, getting good at inventory processes increased.