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Outside-in Process Q&A

Supply Chain Shaman

The company aligns channel requirements with available donors and successfully drives bi-directional orchestration programs to manage the reverse bill of materials (red cells and plasma) and demand-shaping campaigns to drive the right donors to the blood drives based on inventory levels. Analyze inventory health.

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Baby Formula Deficit: Unfortunate Lessons in Demand Forecasting

Logility

When the United States had a massive infant formula shortage, families were under duress, especially those with babies under one. The need for more resilient supply chains and better demand forecasting was becoming more essential. What can supply chain planning professionals learn from this situation?

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Supply Chain Planning Solutions are Not Just for the Big Boys

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain planning is not just for the big boys. Myers Industries (NYSE: MYE) is headquartered in Akron, Ohio in the United States. They source plastic pellets and then use injection, blow molding, rotational molding, and thermoforming to produce their finished products. Myers Industries Implements John Galt Solutions.

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What You Need To Know About The State Of The Retail Worker Shortage

ToolsGroup

Yet according to retail advisory firm IHL , “The most significant challenges to inventory distortion are the availability of workers and the disruptions outside of the immediate control of the retailer.” As per a recent report by CNBC , the labor department in the United States has 5.5 Source: Bloomberg.com.

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WEG Joins the Logility Client Community

Logility

WEG chose Logility’s sophisticated demand planning tool to support inventory replenishment on its distribution business in the United States. Founded in 1961, the rapidly growing company now manufactures 19 million electrical motors annually.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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Build Resilient Supply Chains That Weather Disruptions 

Logility

Can the United States be far behind? This then provides new insights for faster decision-making, automated planning, and the elimination of time, inventory, and risk throughout your supply chain. When this happens, you need alternate sources in different regions that can deliver the parts.