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This Week in Logistics News (April 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

In a statement, the company announced it will meet the goal by the end of this year instead. With more consumers pushing for supply chain transparency, Chipotle will be testing out RFID tags at its Chicago distribution center and at 200 Chicago stores to improve the traceability of its inventory systems.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- March 17 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The process reportedly calls for Mr. Renjen to stand for election to the tech provider’s Supervisory Board in its meeting in May of this year. Reportedly the added funding will allow the Swiss based tech provider to scale operations and address a growing backlog of planned deployments of its autonomous inventory drone technology.

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Optimizing Inventory Is About Improving Service While Lowering Inventory. Wait, What?

ToolsGroup

Equally mystifying to people is the concept of inventory optimization. I explain to people that if they’re getting this process right, overall service levels should go up by 3-5% as overall inventory levels decrease by 15-30%. – Don’t you have to raise inventory levels to guarantee service levels?” Wait, what?

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This Week in Logistics News (May 4-8, 2015)

Talking Logistics

It has 253 employees and is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Dublin, Ireland; and Brighton, England. The Freightliner Inspiration Truck is equipped with the Highway Pilot sensors and computer hardware is based upon a series production Freightliner Cascadia Evolution, fully certified to meet all U.S.

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Ways to help manage the chemical supply in disruption.

o9 Solutions

Typically planning meetings and decision making would be weekly, monthly, especially when you talk about S&OP and IBP , so what we did right away was we switched to a daily, almost real-time decision making. In Israel [an idea] we borrowed from the army is to validate quick decisions. So this year, it’s really tough for us.

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Demand and Fulfillment Blocking & Tackling: Part 2 – Do you hear or listen?

BlueYonder

I can tell you what Mega Retail in Israel has chosen to focus on: we listen to our customers, always, every time we meet, because we really care. All you have to do is focus on and design your supply chain to enable choice and yet have complete control over inventory. Well, I can put you at ease on this one.

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Beyond The Data with William Sandoval

The Logistics of Logistics

All those meetings began in Spanish and they go, “Do you not understand that?” If you had something inside that product that said, “It was on a forklift, truck and final mile delivery for this long,” you can start to say, “I can manage my inventory better.” You can reduce your inventory costs. It makes it easier.