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Here’s How to Measure Inventory Health

ToolsGroup

Looking for a relatively quick way to measure inventory health? “It Even though we’re talking about inventory, we first have to understand customer buying behavior—and how that then translates into inventory requirements.” This is different from problematic ABC inventory classification.

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Demand Sensing: How to Unlock Smarter Supply Chains with AI

Logility

Balancing forecast accuracy with inventory management gets more challenging every day. Customer behavior: Real-time insights into customer orders, inventory levels, and distribution channels clarify short-term demand. Short-term signals, like customer orders or inventory levels, work better for weekly demand-sensing.

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Inventory Optimization in a Volatile Market: How to Stay Agile and Profitable

ModusLink Corporation

In todays unpredictable business environment, inventory is no longer just a cost centerits a strategic asset. And with volatility comes the need for smarter, faster, and more flexible inventory management strategies. Heres how businesses are navigating these challenges in 2025and how you can too.

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Machine Learning in Demand Planning: How to Boost Forecasting

ToolsGroup

Even more impressive, lost sales due to stockouts can decrease by up to 65%, while inventory reductions of 20% to 50% are possible. This advanced analysis allows businesses to predict promotional lift with unprecedented accuracy, ensuring optimized production schedules and inventory positioning through sophisticated supply planning.

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How to Tackle Today's Most Complex Inventory Challenges

Speaker: Andrew Kurpiel - AmerCareRoyal | Bill Benton - GAINS | Paul Benhamou - Benco Dental

By targeting inventory investments and regulating service expectations, their inventory optimization activities have improved performance. Join three supply chain experts as they share their best practices and effective strategies for facing today’s most complex inventory challenges.

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How to Optimize Demand Forecasting: Probabilistic Solutions

ToolsGroup

The key is to measure how well your supply chain can absorb uncertainty, rather than striving for perfect forecasts. Heres how to approach this shift from forecast-driven to uncertainty-driven planning: Acknowledge that your forecast will be wrong. If your forecast is wrong, then any decisions based on that forecast will also be wrong.

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Mobile Inventory Management: Boost Efficiency with Real-Time Tracking

RFgen

Picture this: You’re a warehouse manager, and with a few taps on your smartphone, you instantly know the exact location and quantity of every item in your inventory. That’s not science fiction—it’s the power of mobile inventory management. Ready to turn your inventory from a headache into a strategic asset?

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5 Steps to 100% Inventory & Asset Accuracy: A Warehouse Manager’s Guide to RFID

The guide is “5 Steps to 100% Inventory & Asset Accuracy.” What's your inventory accuracy? Barcodes vs. RFID 5 ways to deploy RFID in your warehouse How to find the ideal RFID solution Who can help? What's inside the eBook? Case study: Military contractor saves time & money

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Learn How to Transform Procurement with Team Procure Cloud

Team Procure Cloud offers a comprehensive solution to procurement management, streamlining the entire process from purchase requests and approvals to supplier management and inventory control. One of the key features of the platform is the custom approval workflows, which are tailored to each department within an organization.

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Striking a Balance in the Supply Chain: Navigating Volatile Supply and Demand to Meet Customer Needs

Speaker: Tony Darnell, Shipping Manager at Lippert Components

To make smart allocations, they need to visualize inventory across multiple warehouses and cater to different customer needs.

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Key Questions for a Successful Distribution Network

Speaker: Irina Rosca, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Helix

How many distribution centers do we even need, and is that number feasible? If we're going to offer the speed of shipping and variety of inventory that today's customers have come to expect, there are a lot of different questions that need to be asked. January 30, 2019 12:30 PM PST, 3:30 PM EST, 8:30 PM GMT.

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Complimentary Gartner Report: Improve S&OP Decision Making with Scenario Planning

How to articulate scenarios for portfolio planning, network, inventory, and more. Who to involve in the process and how to monitor changing conditions for effective decision making. --> The paradigm shift happening in S&OP and pain points experienced by SCP leaders. Defining indicators to monitor changes in scenarios.

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The Keys to Business Continuity Planning

Speaker: Ron Spiteri, Director of TXM Lean Solutions

Ways to find the right balance between inventory turns and stock availability. The types of risks and how to assess them. How to develop Prevention, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery strategies. Join Ron Spiteri of TXM Lean Solutions, and learn the key steps to take control of your supply chain risks.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for everyday products. . Don’t miss this chance to refine your fulfillment strategy and lead your team confidently into 2025.