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Your Guide to Understanding & Minimizing Inventory Costs (with Formula)

RFgen

Managing inventory costs is a constant struggle. Between rising costs for materials and endemic labor shortfalls in the warehouse, many supply chain professionals may feel trapped in an endless cycle of shrinking profit margins. Managing inventory costs is important because high inventory costs can erode the bottom line.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Source E2open Shipping Index). The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. A Decline in Innovation. Less Collaborative.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Source E2open Shipping Index). The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. A Decline in Innovation. Less Collaborative.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. Using Analytics In the World of Gray.

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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

Logistics Viewpoints

He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Containerization eventually reduced shipping and loading costs by at least 75%. The myth of the “perfect plan”.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

I am currently doing research on inventory management. In the research, I ask inventory planners to define resilience. Of the twenty companies interviewed, only one can answer the question, “Do you have a good inventory plan?” No technology in the market measures inventory health. Today, this is not the case.

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Navigating the Future: How Advanced Supply Chain Analytics is Transforming the Industry

ThroughPut

is advanced supply chain analytics. Advanced supply chain analytics is turning the current uncertainty into strategic foresight. In this blog, we’ll delve deeper into the potential of advanced supply chain analytics and understand why it is the need of the hour.