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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price. Zachary said.

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The Current State of Bottleneck Management and What Companies Need to Do to Improve

ThroughPut

At best theoretical, the exercises helped me understand how better throughput was a prerequisite for additional output. Inventory as a liability and not an asset was a big epiphany for impacting cash flows. This was as true as in hydraulic fracturing in 2011 as it was in managing telecommunications finished goods inventories in 2019.

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What Entrepreneur Media Wouldn’t Publish about ThroughPut: Why Industrial Operations Bottleneck Elimination is the World’s Greatest Mission

ThroughPut

At best theoretical, the exercises helped me understand how better throughput was a prerequisite for additional output. Inventory as a liability and not an asset was a big epiphany for impacting cash flows. This was as true as in hydraulic fracturing in 2011 as it was in managing telecommunications finished goods inventories in 2019.