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Inventory Obsolescence: It Can Get Complicated

ToolsGroup

Shorter innovation cycles, multi-channel complexity, and long-tail stock-keeping units (SKUs) accelerate the inevitable decline in value. The knack in today’s innovation economy is to understand how the value of a particular SKU deteriorates or its costs increase so that profit erosion can be factored into inventory optimization calculations.

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How to Reduce Shipping Costs: 8 Effective Ways

Ware2Go

But the same package sent only 107 miles from Oklahoma City to Tulsa would be Zone 2. As a result, storing inventory closer to customers will eliminate shipping to higher zones, lowering time in transit (TNT) and improving shipping speeds. The higher the zone, the more expensive an order is to ship. Establish Rigorous Packout SOP’s.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price. Zachary said.

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Trends 2019: Food

Enterra Insights

Researchers from Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. The reason is we offer a unique Sensory Identification system that employs an innovative scientific method to create highly accurate data representations of the way an ingredient, product, or recipe tastes and smells. Regional flavors. ”[8]. Concluding thoughts.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 19-23, 2013)

Talking Logistics

I went to Home Depot earlier this week to return a purchase, and the customer in front of me wanted to exchange a defective power tool with the same model, but he couldn’t find any on the shelf even though the store’s inventory system said 5 units were in stock. Manhattan Associates Launches 2013 Inventory Optimization Release.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 17-21, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Oklahoma grocers set to deploy fleet of autonomous vans for final-mile deliveries (CCJ). Blume Global Introduces a New Digital Era of Growth, Innovation and Value Creation for the Global Supply Chain Ecosystem. Blume Global Introduces a New Digital Era of Growth, Innovation and Value Creation for the Global Supply Chain Ecosystem.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

Oklahoma Sen. Titan builds off over a decade of innovations in mobile robotics at Amazon, and can lift up to two times more weight than Hercules, the most broadly deployed robot within our operations. LSEG Workspace, a financial news and data platform, calculated inventory turnover ratios of 30 major U.S. “Stand your butt up!”