Information Inventory Metrics North Carolina 
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Is supply chain inventory the problem?
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 11, 2024
Historically these roles are siloed, focused on their own functional metrics. One global pharmaceutical company refers to this as the “whoosh” effect, because switching out the walls between siloes from opaque to clear meant that suddenly everyone could see the same information at the same time, which makes collaboration much easier.
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Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
With this information, are you any closer to knowing what to do about it, or have you just enriched your ability to admire your problem and see it close up? Achieving their goal of no stockouts is impressive, but that they did so without significant buffering with inventory is a testament to the combination of transparency and agility.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 19, 2022
Malcolm McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was tired of waiting. Imagine you are a high-tech manufacturer with more inventory in stock than your forecasted production volume, which puts you in good company, since US manufacturers’ inventories continue to rise. Now that’s an ROI!
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Supply chains must be connected and collaborative so all links can align to business strategy and oriented toward a common set of the most important metrics (and not functional metrics that drive siloed behavior). But to operate at the board level we need to be able to speak the CFO’s language. Spike up to protect against attack.
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 15, 2022
GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Alex Zhong, Director Product Marketing at GEP.
Kanban Logistics
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
It also enables the 3PL to perform inventory management protocols like FIFO (first in first out; the oldest lots of items will be distributed first) and FEFO (first expired first out; the products closest to their expiration dates will be distributed first). Items that have common characteristics important to food manufacturers (e.g.,
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