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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. So, knowing more about order fulfillment, its importance, process, and strategies is critical. Also, it allows companies to track, refill, and manage their inventory levels. So there is no fixed rule for selecting the order fulfillment strategy.

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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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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.