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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Yes, there is a great opportunity, but the question is how to jump. How to get started? Often, the planning group has high employee turnover and low job satisfaction. Technology providers focus on serving the planner, but I find that they are blind to the larger requirements of how to serve the organization better.

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ToolsGroup-IHL Group 2022 Retail Inventory Study Shows Diminishing Customer Loyalty Due to Out-of-Stock Concerns

ToolsGroup

Improving inventory position can help retailers secure consumer loyalty and capture impulse spending. The survey report: How Retailers Win Customer Loyalty in an Omnichannel World tracks the change in U.S. Across other retail sectors, customers have increased their trust in inventory availability from 1-7%.

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How to Hurdle the Biggest Barrier to Supply Chain Transparency: Data

Logistics Viewpoints

If you can’t see what’s truly going on at any moment in time across your supply chain, you’ll make yourself vulnerable to lost opportunities, lost income, lost inventory, lost shipments, and eventually, lost customers. How can you make it all work together and build a better supply chain business, fast? So, what next?

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. At the time, many business leaders did not know how to type and had no idea how to use a computer.

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Inventory Planning vs. Inventory Optimization: What’s the Difference?

ToolsGroup

What’s the difference between traditional inventory planning and inventory optimization? Optimizing your inventory is a different beast than simply planning your inventory. They face a complex distribution network and optimizing inventory for each location is challenging. Anyone can come up with a plan.

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How to Make Supply Chain Complexity Work to Your Advantage

ToolsGroup

With supply chain complexity increasing at an unprecedented rate, perhaps the biggest challenge for businesses is figuring out how to navigate this uncertainty to deliver service profitably. This invariably leads to extra freight costs and excess and obsolete inventory that either needs to be written off or sold at a heavy discount.

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Options for inventory planning and forecasting

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In an increasingly unpredictable world environment, practices for planning and forecasting inventory levels that worked in the past need to be reviewed. In the 1990s, APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) arose as a solution for making better decisions about inventory. Inventory optimization.