Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

Regular reviews and joint business planning foster accountability and trust. Do Embrace Technology and Data : Use real-time data for demand forecasting, inventory management, and route optimization. Do Set Clear KPIs and Governance Structures : Establish transparent metrics for sales, coverage, and service levels.

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John Galt

JULY 22, 2025

You thought you had your inventory under control. But here’s the hard truth: your inventory might be sneaking around behind your back – racking up costs, hoarding working capital, and ghosting your optimization efforts. But producing beyond what’s needed leads to excess inventory, which inflates carrying costs and erodes flexibility.

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ModusLink Corporation

MAY 19, 2025

In todays unpredictable business environment, inventory is no longer just a cost centerits a strategic asset. From global supply chain disruptions to shifting consumer demand, businesses are facing increasing volatility. And with volatility comes the need for smarter, faster, and more flexible inventory management strategies.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 13, 2025

Rapid-fire, essentially live decision-making only happens when you have a reliable and fast solver behind the scene,” he says. Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox. Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S.

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ThroughPut

JULY 9, 2025

It includes everything from managing transportation providers to optimizing warehouse layouts, picking and packing, and even handling customs paperwork. A delay in production (operations) affects warehouse schedules (logistics), which disrupts delivery (transportation), and ultimately impacts customer experience (supply chain).

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Other developments to watch for, according to Koganti, include computer vision, which combined with robotics offers the ability to scan store or warehouse shelves and automatically issue order for replenishment, There are already nine billion cameras in the world (seven billion of them in phones).

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This transformation delivers many benefits, including increased sustainability, but it also creates demand-planning and production-planning challenges. To profitably serve demand, automakers need to get the product mix right across EVs, ICEs, and hybrids — but they also need to plan precisely by channel and region.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

By implementing an AI-powered planning solution that analyzed inventory levels, forecast needs and guided agents to service revenue-producing assets, the company was able to redefine its business model and save roughly $100 million. But pairing agentic and gen AI completely changed the game. Are you ready for the challenge?

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ModusLink Corporation

JANUARY 30, 2025

Effective Demand Planning and Forecasting Accurate demand forecasting is the cornerstone of a resilient supply chain. By leveraging data analytics, businesses can better anticipate customer demand, optimize production schedules, and avoid both stockouts and overstocking.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

Inventory buffers shrink. Because logistics are tightly woven into production, fulfillment and the customer experience, the impact of a transit issue, like a delayed shipment, can quickly ripple across the whole business. Assembly lines pause. Deliveries miss their windows.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

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Silvon Software

APRIL 16, 2025

Inventory is the lifeblood of any manufacturing business. By leveraging analytics and key performance indicators (KPIs), manufacturers can optimize inventory, reduce waste, and boost profitability. Tracking inventory flow and performance across your supply chain is a must. Thats where data-driven decision-making comes in!

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 11, 2025

Optimizing Warehouse Space with Advanced Racking Systems By Ian Summers (pictured) Content Writer 114 Views Looking for a way to make your warehouse more efficient? These key points will guide you in planning smarter and working better. Let’s explore how to optimize your warehouse space using advanced racking systems.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Is inventory bloating your costs? A scorecard acts as your dashboard, providing crucial visibility that helps you: Make Data-Driven Decisions: Replace guesswork with facts when evaluating suppliers, processes, and inventory levels. Improve Efficiency: Understand process timelines and inventory holding to streamline operations.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

Centralized medication management platforms allow hospitals to track and manage inventory across departments and facilities in real time. Teams spend less time reconciling inventory manually and more time on strategic, patient-facing work. Digital tools help shift that burden.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

AI in the supply chain refers to the use of intelligent technologies to manage and optimize different supply chain activities, such as inventory management, demand forecasting, and route optimization. In the next decade, AI technologies will drive increased automation, further optimizing inventory management and logistics operations.

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2025

An unexpected electrical failure can halt production, spoil inventory, and delay shipments, costing you far more than the repairs alone. Warehouses storing perishable or temperature-sensitive products lose thousands in wasted stock when cooling systems fail. Reliable power is the silent engine behind your supply chain.

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TransAudit

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As Dritz noted, Collaboration with distribution partners and manufacturers can drive tremendous value by aligning core competencies and sharing demand plans. Key collaborative practices include: Demand Planning: Share forecasts with upstream partners to ensure readiness. However, data quality remains critical.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 22, 2025

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) – Best for enterprise resource planning and global supply chain management SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a comprehensive solution helping with supply chain monitoring, sales and operations planning, demand management, inventory planning, and supply planning.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 11, 2025

A McKinsey survey highlights a strong demand for AI-based tools, particularly in demand planning, where 74% of respondents show keen interest.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Customers are simultaneously grappling with extremely volatile demand, increasing consumer expectations, changing regulatory requirements and continuous interruptions across the supply chain. Disruption is officially now a norm, making demand planning and forecasting, in particular, very difficult.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

Regulators are seeking “to put pressure on fashion brands to make sure they’ve got better inventory control in terms of not over-ordering.” In the EU, “a heck of a lot” of new fashion apparel goes straight to landfill at the end of its life, he says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

AMR Forecast Down h $55 Million That’s how much Walmart says it has already saved from a solution it calls “Self-Healing Inventory” system in Mexico City, automatically rerouting supplies when overstocks appear. Chinese Economy Stays Strong. New Cars Lost at Sea. That according to a press release from the company this week.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 10, 2025

Show notes: A white paper from AutoStore: “Key Questions to Ask Warehouse Automation Vendors.” RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Logistics Quality & Metrics Warehouse Automation Warehouse Management Systems Related Articles Warehouses Are on a Journey to Going ‘Dark.’ This episode is sponsored by AutoStore.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 30, 2025

has the potential to align ERP systems, demand forecasting systems, procure to pay (P2P) systems, transportation management systems (TMS) and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). Tariffs coming out of the US, how will that impact us? We have to look at tier 1, 2, 3 levels.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

Now is an excellent time to develop organizational execution intelligence, which means using data and analytics to optimize operations across inventory management, pricing and promotion to squeeze every last ounce of efficiency out of your processes. Prioritize execution intelligence. To use a rudimentary illustration from the U.K.,

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 10, 2025

The knock-on effects included delivery delays, inventory shortfalls and price spikes across multiple industries. That detour added up to 12 days of transit time and increased shipping costs by approximately $1 million per voyage, according to reporting from Bloomberg and Maersk’s own advisories.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 17, 2025

Cognitive Inventory Planning: AI continuously aligns procurement strategies with shifts in customer demand, promotional calendars, and macroeconomic conditions. Capital Efficiency: Minimized inventory holding costs through just-in-time restocking and accurate demand matching.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

SCM encompasses the integrated planning and execution of processes required to optimize the flow of materials, information, and capital in functions that broadly include demand planning, sourcing, production, inventory management and logistics. It covers design, prototyping, engineering changes, and regulatory compliance.

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

SCM is focused on efficiency, throughput, and resilience across a much wider operational footprint and requires coordination between manufacturing, logistics and supply chain, and demand planning teams to ensure timely fulfillment and quality assurance. What Is Procurement?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

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