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Editor’s Choice: 8 Supply Chain Planning Challenges Retailers Will Face In 2022 And Tips To Overcome Them

Logistics Viewpoints

The ongoing chip crisis since last year affecting 100+ industries is the best example: supply couldn’t meet the increased demand, which led to rising prices and shortages in computers, cars, and pretty much any other electronics product with chips.

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Can we re-shore and create a US semiconductor industry? Maybe…

NC State SCRC

This is an interesting area that might allow companies (even if they are not re-shored), the opportunity to have different components in inventory, and to mix and match them to create customized systems into printed format. manufacturing of Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE). There are no easy answers.

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What is Inventory Management?

EMERGE App

What is Inventory Management? Inventory management, in a nutshell, describes your efforts to manage, assess and report on the flow of your stock of goods. You might be using pencil-and-paper, spreadsheets or sophisticated inventory management software to do this. Two Essential Features of Inventory Management Today.

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Accelerate Digitisation in the Supply Chain – Leveraging a Data-driven Approach to Optimisation – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In 2018, SDS acquired a global leader in electronic product distribution, increasing market share in Scandinavia. Tracking the inventory and reorder point gives organizations complete control over their stocking policies is one of the many functions that it deploys.

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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

At this time of year, we find many companies planning workshops to stimulate thinking on building a digital supply chain and igniting next-generation supply chain thinking. Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Summer is ending. Forge a strategy?

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Why It Counts to Know the Cycle Time of Your Business’ Inventory Stock

Unleashed

Cycle time tells us the effort spent on making an item of inventory stock. Cycle time includes process time, during which a unit of inventory stock is acted upon to bring it closer to a final output, and delay time, during which a unit of work is spent waiting to take the next action. Take for example the electronics smartphone market.

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Reshaping Product Lifecycle Innovation: An Inside Look at PTC LiveWorx 2023

Arena Solutions

This four-day event is packed with interactive workshops, technical trainings, and a keynote from PTC’s president and CEO, Jim Heppelmann , that deliver practical solutions to address your most critical business challenges. To stay on course, many companies are moving away from legacy systems and embracing a digital transformation.