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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

The company has a sourcing team that vets the beans. The company has about 200 of their own coffee shops; Peet’s also sells coffee bags and K-cup packages through 15,000 warehouse clubs, grocery, and convenience stores nationwide. These DSD warehouses in turn receive less-than-truckload size shipments on at least a weekly basis.

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Demand forecasting is the process of making future estimations of how much of a given product will sell by location and time period. Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship.

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Peak Season Inventory Management and Fulfillment Strategies

Intelligent Audit

Strengthening the Supply Chain: 5 Steps for Peak Season Inventory Management. Demand Planning: Ensure the management and your team members understand how not receiving inventory on time from a given supplier will affect production. Embrace tools for marketing and selling to a digital market to make shipping and tracking easier.

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Omni-Channel Fulfillment is Key for the Holiday Season

Logistics Viewpoints

That means that the holiday shipping season is in full swing too. There are five major technologies included in the study: warehouse management systems (WMS), transportation management systems (TMS), distributed order management (DOM), inventory optimization/store replenishment, and demand planning.

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How AI is transforming manufacturing Part 2: Inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

As a result, when ordering a component, it may have to be shipped from one end to the other. Companies struggling to manage their supply chains often lack data for decision making, have siloed systems and inefficient inventory management practices. Inventory management in the supply chain. Supplier management.

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Do You Want to Sell on Amazon.com? Their Cyber Bots Demand Strong Fulfillment Performance

Logistics Viewpoints

The company combines domestic manufacturing with global sourcing. Half of those ecommerce orders are fulfilled using drop shipping. The company recently announced that they will implement a warehouse management system (WMS) from Manhattan Associates. This is a private company with 1500 employees.

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Demand Sensing for your Supply Chain – Turn insights into actions!

ThroughPut

By learning from the data on past and current performances, AI-enabled approaches continuously refine and enhance the process of demand forecasting in the supply chain. Using external data and modern Machine Learning algorithms, organizations can outperform networks that are managed manually and adapt to external changes faster.