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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. As a critical component of the sales process, order fulfillment ensures customers receive the order on time. If customers do not receive their orders on time, they won’t buy from that company again. What’s that? Why is it important? Let’s fill in!

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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. It happens all the time. I’ll tell you why: because in the supply chain universe mistakes cost you money. Sound simple?

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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. Imprecise Shipment Scheduling | Dwell times, detention, long lines waiting for the warehouse to free up an available dock door.

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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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This Week in Logistics News (June 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

” Walmart opened its largest fulfillment center on June 15 outside of Indianapolis. For Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one of those secrets might be a driving mode that enables hands-free driving in Tesla vehicles. The hidden feature, aptly named “Elon Mode,” was discovered by a Tesla software hacker known online as @greentheonly.