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How Brave Books Manages Its Fulfillment with Stord E-Commerce Software

Stord

But as brands quickly scale, they add new tools on top of legacy systems, taking protocols that were effective when shipping 50 orders per month and bolting on other systems hoping they can all work seamlessly together when they hit hundreds of orders per day. This habit of interlocking “band-aid” solutions is not unique to logistics.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. Sometimes, even the definition of a supply chain is not clear. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible.

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China’s Regime is Coming to a Company Near You

MIT Supply Chain

When a person’s social rating falls below a certain level, he or she is disqualified from travel by air or on certain train lines and cannot buy property or take out a loan. In another example of China using its market size for political purposes, the Chinese Basketball Association suspended all cooperation with the Houston Rockets in 2019.

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3 Ways a Poorly Managed Inventory Can Ruin a Business

RFgen

Not having enough in-stock can result in delayed shipments and lost sales, and too much stock can increase storage costs as well as the chances that product deterioration occurs, according to the Houston Chronicle. The company chalked this up to poor inventory management because employees used Microsoft Excel. It Affects Morale.

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3 Ways a Poorly Managed Inventory Can Ruin a Business

RFgen

Not having enough in-stock can result in delayed shipments and lost sales, and too much stock can increase storage costs as well as the chances that product deterioration occurs, according to the Houston Chronicle. The company chalked this up to poor inventory management because employees used Microsoft Excel. It Affects Morale.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

Logistics can be traced all the way back to the Greek and Roman empires , but it’s undergone several major transformations as new technologies provide opportunities to more efficiently manage the movement and storage of goods. These technologies also contribute to a rise in big data and analytics in the logistics field.

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Enabling Innovation Groups To Sell More Effectively to Operations Leaders

ThroughPut

We do it throughout entire industries, enabling leaders to smooth-out their Supply Chains, lean-out their Logistics, optimize their Operations, and maximize their Manufacturing throughput, all with their existing teams and often disaggregated data sources.

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