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Inventory Management: Why Excel Is Holding You Back

ToolsGroup

In this dynamic environment, inventory management powered by spreadsheets is no longer a viable strategy. Companies that embrace inventory optimization through modern tools are moving toward a high maturity supply chain model —and reaping the rewards. Why Spreadsheets Are Failing Inventory Management Excel feels familiar.

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Mobile Inventory Management: Boost Efficiency with Real-Time Tracking

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Picture this: You’re a warehouse manager, and with a few taps on your smartphone, you instantly know the exact location and quantity of every item in your inventory. That’s not science fiction—it’s the power of mobile inventory management. What Is Mobile Inventory Management?

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Inventory Management in a High Inflation Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

Inflation’s effects on inventory management policies are likely far from top of the mind of Logistics Viewpoints readers in today’s challenging times. However, today’s elevated rate of inflation warrants a closer look at optimal inventory policies. 1] Bierman, H., and Thomas, J.,

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Inventory Life Cycle: Your Guide to Master Inventory Management

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Leveling up your inventory life cycle can be crucial, but keeping all the fundamental factors jumping is essential to let the life cycle evolve. However, if the life cycle stock is healthy, inventory management is smooth. Inventory management revolves around the pivotal concept of the product life cycle.

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Automated Order Processing and Proactive Inventory Management

Speaker: Irina Rosca, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Helix

Companies should have seamless integration between order entry, inventory management, forecasting and supply planning models and purchase order status to sense risk, pull levers to mitigate potential risk, and communicate within and outside the organization.

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AI Software for Spare Parts Inventory Management: Why You Should Care

ThroughPut

Thats why a growing number of organizations are turning to AI software for spare parts inventory management. What is Spare Parts Inventory Management? Despite being mission-critical, spare parts inventory management in many organizations still relies heavily on spreadsheets, siloed databases, and outdated ERP tools.

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The Costly Oversight: Why Your Inventory Rebalancing Strategy Is Failing You

ToolsGroup

Are you making the fatal mistake of underestimating the importance of inventory rebalancing? Many retailers treat inventory management as a mundane task rather than a strategic lever for success. It’s time to invest in robust inventory management tools that empower you to make informed decisions in real-time.

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5 Critical Challenges Facing Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

Real-time visibility and tracking are critical to order accuracy, schedule reliability, inventory management and compliance in a high-value, highly regulated industry. There’s little room for error in most global supply chains, but none for the pharma cold chain.

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Your Supply Chain Challenges, Solved!: 5 Guides

The guides include: reducing transportation costs, improving customer satisfaction, optimizing inventory management, increasing workforce efficiency, and achieving sustainability and ESG goals. Featuring testimonials from: Cardinal Health, Kimberly Clark, Bayer, Dollar Tree, T-Mobile, Ace Hardware Download now!

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Multi-Tier Supply Chain Application Enables Fortune 100 Company to Gain Visibility

Which suppliers were being roadblocks, Which posed threats to assurances in supply, What information was being conveyed between suppliers and other supplier and inventory management issues. A Fortune 100 company wanted to have seamless visibility, collaboration and synchronized planning with its multiple levels of suppliers.

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3 Ways Your Wholesaler ERP System Is Failing You

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems play a key role for wholesale distribution companies in this process, serving (among other things) as the inventory management software that attempts to ensure that the right products are available in the right quantities at the right time and place.

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Striking a Balance in the Supply Chain: Navigating Volatile Supply and Demand to Meet Customer Needs

Speaker: Tony Darnell, Shipping Manager at Lippert Components

In this webinar, we will discuss: Fulfilling the needs of customers at every level within your supply chain Guidance for companies that are reanalyzing their approach to inventory management, transportation management, and other aspects of supply assurance The obstacles that exist in supply chain and how to persevere through them April 27th, 2023 at (..)

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A Supply Chain Leader’s Guide to Managing Disruption With Modern Analytics

Managing disruption of any kind has become the #1 priority in supply chain operations. But, as leaders know, adapting to change is rarely a simple task and requires a fresh look at existing processes in planning and sourcing, inventory management, warehousing & distribution, and more.