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What Is Order Fulfillment and It’s Process and Strategies

Locus

million square feet at McCordsville, twenty miles northeast of Indianapolis. Also, it allows companies to track, refill, and manage their inventory levels. At this stage, businesses check if items are safe and secure and if the inventory levels are accurate and optimized for better space. What’s that? Why is it important?

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Demand and Fulfillment Blocking & Tackling: Part 5 – Knowledge Is Power

BlueYonder

Try explaining to your CEO that you didn’t know how much inventory you’d need for the new category introduction and that’s why after a week you’re out of stock for the next ten days. A good example of that would be two games played by the New England Patriots against the Indianapolis Colts during the last season.

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Is Your Freight Spilling Millions Across the Interstate?

Supply Chain Collaborator

A Brinks armored truck traveling down Interstate 70 outside Indianapolis this week had its rear doors open sending more than $600,000 in twenty-dollar bills exploding across all 8 lanes of rush hour traffic. These things slow throughput and eat into hours of service. Advanced scheduling features like these are no longer “nice to haves”.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

” Walmart opened its largest fulfillment center on June 15 outside of Indianapolis. Despite falling markups, rising inventory, and even some new car deals to be had, there’s a new challenge befalling automakers that has nothing to do with the cars themselves. in McCordsville. The new car market isn’t quite yet out of the woods.

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Deadstock – Meaning, Causes, Prevention and Remedies

EMERGE App

It happens when your inventory doesn’t move for various reasons. And they’re adding to the holding cost of inventory. Deadstock is the inventory product that never gets sold and now occupies the store shelves way longer than expected. Jennifer Rosenberg, president of Indianapolis based Acorn Distributors Inc.

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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: A story from the front lines at Ken?s Foods

Elementum

Today, they produce and package over 1,000 varieties of dressings and sauces — including category leader, Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce — across 4 plants near Boston, Indianapolis, Atlanta, and Las Vegas. With no plants overseas, Ken’s Foods was spared the early supply chain ripple effect related to COVID-19 in Asia and Europe.

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Stord Partners with IPG to Launch New Warehouse Collaboration After Centralizing eCommerce Operations with a Single Integration to Connect Their ERP to Stord’s Omni-Channel Distribution Network

Stord

Then the IPG team was introduced to Stord, who set up a forward stocking location for IPG in Indianapolis. Stord’s integration brought all their inventory and order data to one place.