Unleashed

MAY 15, 2023

From targeted email campaigns to inventory management integrations, we’ll outline how you can develop strong B2B CRM strategies to improve business performance and achieve predictable growth. Looking for a complete CRM + inventory management solution? That’s where a quality CRM system comes in. What is a B2B CRM?

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

is advanced supply chain analytics. Advanced supply chain analytics is turning the current uncertainty into strategic foresight. In this blog, we’ll delve deeper into the potential of advanced supply chain analytics and understand why it is the need of the hour.

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Logility

MAY 25, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable global market, the secret to maintaining a competitive edge lies in a key area—robust inventory control techniques. Inventory control is the act of managing and organizing stock to meet customer demand without surplus or deficiency. This is where inventory control techniques come in.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A report by McKinsey shows that early adopters of AI in the supply chain have improved their inventory levels by 35%, reduced logistics costs by 15%, and enhanced service levels by 65%, vis-a-vis competitors who were slow to embrace AI. With rapid fluctuations and uncertainty, predicting customer demand is like shooting in the dark.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I find in my Supply Chains to Admire research that 96% of companies (when compared to their peer groups) are unable to drive improvement while delivering higher performance year-over-year on a balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Ecolab, L’Oreal, and TJX are exceptions.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Take Burlington, for example.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The success of any ecommerce business depends greatly on how it manages its inventory health. Now, for some, inventory health may not be an immediate concern. You might say, “I’ll just order plenty of inventory and wait until it sells out.” What is inventory health?

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Keeping up with and making sense of all this data is far beyond the capabilities of traditional analytic methods. The staff at Predictive Oncology explains, “Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are no longer the concepts of science fiction — they’re a $1.41 ”[1].

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, noted in a recent webinar that a common outcome of these failed implementations is that supply chain organizations end up in “Excel ghettos where lots of people are touching data but not improving it.”. Supply chain planning software selection demands a data-driven approach.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

Here, it’s extremely difficult to predict which sales volume will be reached for which goods. This warehouse runs at a perfect optimum with fixed capital in the form of inventory balanced perfectly with sales and purchasing, and all the items perfectly distributed to the various storage areas of the warehouse.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Our focus today is to discuss the relevance of buzz words such as Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning, for S&OP. What is analytics? We might use “availability in Excel directly or with Add-ons” as an “age metric’.). The term analytics emerged over the last 10 years (Rose, R.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 30, 2024

ThroughPut AI: For Making Intelligent Decisions Across the Supply Chain Watch On-demand Demo ThroughPut AI has been recognized as a Leading Vendor in the prestigious 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Analytics and Decision Intelligence Platforms in Supply Chain. The platform primarily helps predict demand and improve customer experience.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 28, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides the second in a multi-part series addressing the renewed importance of production planning and operational excellence in this very uncertain and constantly changing business environment. Refocusing on Operational Excellence In the previous section, we identified a number of drivers for operational efficiency.

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Invata Intralogistics

APRIL 5, 2024

From reducing return rates by analyzing product data to predicting inventory needs with startling accuracy, AI systems offer many benefits that traditional problem-solving methods can’t replicate. Inventory saved in the ‘right’ or most accessible location ensures a quick and efficient fulfillment process.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is an inventory audit? When it comes to selling goods, ecommerce businesses may audit their inventory — whether it’s for tax purposes annually or to simply verify units on hand. Inventory audits can be done in-house or by a third party and represent one point in time. What is an inventory audit?

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ThroughPut

MARCH 28, 2024

Food Production AI tools can drive advanced predictive analytics with precision forecasting for weather and crop yield predictions. Artificial Intelligence in supply chain helps track products from harvest to distribution channels and manage inventories with greater accuracy. All for the good.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Machine learning is providing the needed algorithms, applications, and frameworks to bring greater predictive accuracy and value to enterprises’ data sets and contributing to diverse strategies succeeding.”[1] Or as Boyle noted, machine learning can be used to predict consumer behavior. ”[2]. Pattern recognition.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51° and Market6 Data How Automation and Advanced Metrics You Won’t Get in 84.51° can help you grow your sales at Kroger and avoid inventory headaches. As such, optimally managing your sales and inventory at Kroger is essential to grow your brand and solidify its foothold with the end consumer.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Global supply chain disruption, rapid technological evolution, changing buying and selling habits – wholesale distributors have had to deal with some rapid and radical changes over the past couple of years. Experts predict the market value will increase from its current US$49,371.76 Nike, which is an even better example.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 25, 2024

Accurate forecasts are essential for maintaining inventory balance, ensuring customer satisfaction, and achieving financial stability. Demand forecasting is the process of predicting future customer demand for a product or service. What is Demand Forecasting? What are the Benefits of Demand Forecasting?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

Instead, all of the disruptions to date had a predictable pattern: a devastating blow, a set of shock waves, and the re-establishment of a new normal. The supply chain response will need to be a local-focused program using analytics to sense shifts market-by-market based on consumption data. The answer is advanced analytics.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 27, 2024

It is also a means to maintain a competitive edge and operational excellence. Examples include a Calendar for scheduling or Reminders for task management. That includes inventory tracking, order management, demand forecasting, and logistics planning. Pros: Robust analytics and ERP integration.

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 9, 2023

By Geoff Whiting, Senior Writer, Red Stag Fulfillment Applying automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to supply chain management is an excellent way for manufacturers to increase the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of operations. RPA is an excellent tool for automating laborious processes currently executed manually.

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Elementum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This integration allows for the automation of straightforward tasks, freeing up resources for more complex processes that require AI’s predictive capabilities and decision-making. Predictive analytics forecast potential disruptions, allowing for proactive measures to minimize delays and enhance customer satisfaction.

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Precoro

MARCH 11, 2024

Yet there’s a proactive approach that addresses the high cost of healthcare: value-based purchasing (VBP). For example, let’s say a patient seeks treatment for lower back pain. We can observe American VBP programs as examples of how value-based purchasing can change the healthcare landscape.

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Precoro

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Continuing in the line of food establishment examples, let's consider a local family pizzeria that you visit after a long day at work. What different products or services does the staff need to purchase in order to produce pizza? Typically, direct purchases are made in large quantities to get a bulk discount.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

The visibility will include not just the short-term purchase order or ASN-level visibility, but also the tactical kind of forecast collaboration with the suppliers. If the organization is used to doing certain things in Excel, just automating the same process will not be sufficient.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 23, 2022

“Demand was greater than available inventory” was a common theme in many retailers’ earnings announcements in early Q1 of 2022. After a strong start to the quarter in inventory receipts and product sell-through, we experienced unexpected inventory receipt slides in key categories due to extended port and transportation delays.

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ThroughPut

JULY 28, 2020

As the largest home improvement retailer in the United States, Home Depot is an excellent example of a business powered by an evolving global supply chain. The Home Depot story above highlights an aspect of supply chain inventory optimization to drive business growth. The customer is truly empowered. Data Demons.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Over the decades, EDI standards emerged that cover a variety of supply chain artifacts and activities , from Purchase Orders & Acknowledgements (EDI 850 & 855) to Invoices (EDI 810) to Shipping Manifests (EDI 856). The PoV proposes that “ API and EDI integration” is “the future” and cites examples where APIs (e.g.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 7, 2022

After all, most of these business functions were created for a very different era where any change was predicted earlier and absorbed easily. Understanding and predicting demand in unpredictable times. Most manufacturers prefer to leverage analytics data over traditional forecasting and time series techniques.

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ThroughPut

JULY 6, 2021

Do you remember the time when the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns were announced across the world, followed by the panic purchase of essentials to the point where supermarkets and grocery stores were left with empty shelves? Understanding and predicting demand in unpredictable times . Reshaping the manufacturing world to meet new demands.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 4, 2022

To stay competitive in the eCommerce space, firms will need to embrace social media commerce in 2022 – which is predicted to boom in the next 5 years 1. A subset of eCommerce, social commerce supports engagement with consumers, and elicits user-generated social contributions to assist the buying and selling of products and services online.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. For example, should customer sentiment data feed into quality systems? I am not quite sure. Bio-engineering?

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ThroughPut

MAY 13, 2022

But what if you could predict demand early enough to plan for, manage, and make the most of it, always? Therefore, demand forecasting is the process by which demand planners predict the demand for a given product in a week’s, month’s, or even a year’s time. Because the truth is that you can. Not just that, there are many ways to do it.

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ThroughPut

MAY 13, 2022

But what if you could predict demand early enough to plan for, manage, and make the most of it, always? Therefore, demand forecasting is the process by which demand planners predict the demand for a given product in a week’s, month’s, or even a year’s time. Because the truth is that you can. Not just that, there are many ways to do it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

Which metrics do you think matter to supply chain excellence? Previously, we had a definition that did not truly reflect what the customer was asking for (example was case fill rates versus perfect order fill rates). For example, ICI was a highly technical and analytic company. Here is an excerpt from the interview.

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