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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? The focus is on the platform; in each presentation, the company struggles to answer the question, “What problem do you solve? At the event, presentation after presentation focused on improving engines. How do I improve the plan?

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No Time Like the Present

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventories increased by 44% due to supply chain volatility. Inventories grew year-over-year by 43%. Coming off a period of high growth, companies are struggling with margins and inventory. In the face of future demand and rising inflation, now is not the time for companies to hold excess inventory. (On See the pattern?

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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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Regaining control: Inventory management best practices (Part four)

Kinaxis

by Richard Cushing In part one of my inventory management best practices series I argue that inventory cannot be managed until it is controlled, and present the notion our general willingness to apportion blame upon unreliable data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is misplaced.

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Weather Permitting: How to Use Weather Data in Retail Forecasting

ToolsGroup

However, ignoring the effect of something with such a profound impact on consumers’ day-to-day lives can lead to severe miscalculations in everything from sales and inventory to markdowns and staffing levels. How to Use Weather Analytics in Retail Forecasting. Inventory costs, markdowns and shrink are three primary examples.

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Conquer Inventory Challenges in the Era of Supply Chain Disruption

Logility

It’s a complex problem, but you can successfully optimize inventory levels with the right approach and technology. With all of today’s supply chain disruptions, and new ones no doubt lurking around the corner, companies without optimized inventory are risking overpaying and underperforming. Inventory Optimization Challenges.

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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

There are still variables, but experts in the industry are aware of them and know how to bypass them. The pandemic accelerated the Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPIS) model, which accounted for $72 billion in purchases in 2020, having greater inventory accuracy grew ever more important. HAVE QUESTIONS? WE’RE HERE FOR YOU.