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Driving Supply Chain Analytics User Adoption with Cross-Departmental Metrics

Logility

Users are accustomed to building everything in Excel and manipulating the data as needed for their own particular use, typically using static reports or spreadsheets that are siloed in specific departmental needs. A key first step is to have buy-in at the highest level of the organization. Starting at the Top.

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Raw Material Inventory Management: Manufacturer’s Guide

Unleashed

It encompasses the processes involved in purchasing, tracking, consuming, and relocating raw materials. While budgetary restrictions can stop you from taking advantage of volume discounts offered through bulk purchasing, holding too much inventory ties up cash flow that could be better used elsewhere in the business.

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Elevating Supply Chain Visibility through Effective Marketing

SCMDOJO

When customers have transparency into product availability, delivery timelines, and order status, they are more likely to complete purchases and continue shopping with a business. At the same time, it makes excellent sense to have a good SEO software solution to keep track of how your marketing strategies perform.

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

If I do an excellent job at safety stock management, my company will have the right levels of inventory. Substitute corporate dashboard metrics like margin, customer service, growth, and inventory health for functional metrics like OEE and Purchase Price Variance. The wheels are falling off this bus. Take action now.

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How has Integrated Business Planning Proven Itself to be a Powerful Planning Process?

Logility

These critics sensed a sinister “rebranding” ploy designed to get companies to purchase technology and services they already own but perhaps have not fully implemented. Challenge yourself to think beyond the traditional Available-to-Promise metric and ask if an action meets the criterion of Profitable-to-Promise.

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Target’s Margins Improve Even As Digital Sales Explode: How Is That Even Possible?

Logistics Viewpoints

Valdez, there were four critical improvement initiatives spanning inventory management, transportation, automation, and operational excellence. The anchor and catalyst for our transformation” was moving to using one pool of inventory to fulfill all digital and in-store purchases. A buyer now “purchases for one business.”

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National Barcode Day 2022

Enterra Insights

The following video provides a quick lesson about how barcodes work. This gives a business constant access to up-to-date data, allowing it to quickly calculate meaningful metrics like inventory turn, value of inventory on-hand or sales per week by item.” ”[3]. ” Concluding Thoughts.