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A Better Approach to Supply Chain Segmentation?

ToolsGroup

This approach of focusing on the customer for supply chain segmentation can also be applied to inventory segmentation. In a blog earlier this year entitled What's wrong with ABC inventory classification? That is why this is called inventory management rather than inventory optimization,” he says.

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Supply Chain Segmentation: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

BlueYonder

Last month JDA teamed up with IndustryWeek and Altera Corporation to present a Webcast on the topic of supply chain segmentation titled: One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Altera’s Supply Chain Segmentation Journey to Profitable Growth. Featured Manufacturing Supply Chain'

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3 Areas of Your Business that Benefit from Supply Chain Innovation

RFgen

Inventory management improvements can lead to operational gains across multiple lines of business. A change to production demands has implications all the way through to the supply chain, and vice versa. This isn’t the only way inventory management gains can be applied to service operations.

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3 Areas of Your Business that Benefit from Supply Chain Innovation

RFgen

Inventory management improvements can lead to operational gains across multiple lines of business. A change to production demands has implications all the way through to the supply chain, and vice versa. This isn’t the only way inventory management gains can be applied to service operations.

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last two years Gartner Group introduced the concept of bimodal supply chains. I strongly believe in supply chain segmentation and the need for each supply chain to have a well-defined, and often different, outcome. The belief is that companies can invest in technology bimodally.

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Order Promising and Demand Shaping in a Segmented, Omni-Channel World

BlueYonder

These capabilities were deployed by dozens of sophisticated supply chain practitioners that needed differentiated customer responses and associated inventory management. JDA was awarded a number of patents in this area and these became instantiated in today’s JDA Order Promiser product.

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Supply Chain Segmentation – the Secret to Omnichannel Success

RFgen

Electronic Products and Technology said a primary goal for supply chain segmentation is to ensure customers don’t ever come across stockouts. Inventory management solutions must recognize the demand of each channel and prep the warehouse accordingly.