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Is Your Supply Chain ‘Ready for Anything’?

ToolsGroup

Over the years we’ve built strong relationships with hundreds of global companies, and we hear the same challenges again and again: they can’t accurately plan for intermittent demand, they’ve got too much capital tied up in inventory, and their planners are overwhelmed by data management and complicated math. and reduced inventory by 18%.

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Inventory Management Techniques That You Need to Know About

EMERGE App

Not Another List of Inventory Management Techniques. I want to start by saying that this is not an exhaustive list of all the possible inventory management techniques available for all industries. What we will cover are practical inventory management techniques that: Our customers use; and. Downside of Inventory Mismanagement.

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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. Food manufacturers, over the course of the last decade, have pushed costs and waste backwards in the supply chain. billion company, manufactures glass containers with headquarters in the Midwest. Here I contrast their results. So, what can we learn?

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Allopneus.com Optimizes Inventory and Improves Competitiveness with ToolsGroup

ToolsGroup

ToolsGroup supply chain planning software allows Allopneus.com to improve inventory quality while reducing storage space at its national distribution center by almost 20%. Products are stored at an 84,000 sqm space in France which manages the distribution of tires across the whole of France and some neighboring countries.

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Top Warehouses in North America 2013

The Logistics of Logistics

auto manufacturing market melted down, I was conducting value stream mapping workshops at tier one suppliers (Magna, TRW, Yazaki, Johnson Controls, etc.). In lean consulting, you would often find excess inventory, rework, over processing and other wasteful practices inside a warehouse. Back in 2008, just before the U.S.

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Lessons Learned from the Beer Game

BlueYonder

At JDA, one of the vehicles we’ve been using to demonstrate the benefits of effective supply planning and collaboration across the supply chain is the Collaborative Flow Planning workshop — AKA, The Beer Game. In the workshop, we play the game twice. We’ve executed this workshop many times over the last two years.

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Executives see AI, Cognitive Analytics and Cloud as the Path to Innovation and Speed to Market

JDA software

In fact, end-to-end visibility and traceability was the top investment objective of surveyed retail, manufacturing and third-party logistics CXOs for the second year in a row. This preference held true across the retail, manufacturing and 3PL segments studied. Here are four major trends from the executives surveyed: 1.