Cathy Roberson

MAY 18, 2025

In retail, managing inventory is always important. Dave Bergman – CFO We're managing [inventory] this year pretty tightly as we get into fiscal '26 and a little bit of the uncertainties around demand with the current tariff environment. And then we did mention inventories -- some import coming from Canada and Mexico and the U.S.,

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 18, 2015

Needs for efficient reverse logistics systems continue to increase as e-commerce claims greater market share, and as so many traditionally functioning businesses grow and inevitably incur increasing volume of returns. This presents opportunities for developing new revenue streams, an exciting challenge to logistics professionals.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Robert Cadena is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lean Staffing Solutions, which provides operational, marketing, sales, and technology services to the logistics and transportation industry. About Lean Staffing Solutions. Lean Staffing Solutions provides operational, sales, marketing, and technology support to over 100 leading 3PLs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

And then at some point all of these activities were included under the banner of “Reverse Logistics” What on earth is Reverse Logistics? So What Is Reverse Logistics? The term “Reverse Logistics” was first coined by James R. And Why Is Reverse Logistics Important?

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 16, 2018

By 2020, the value of B2B e-commerce will surpass $1 trillion, and manufacturers, distributors, retailers, reverse logistics managers, third-party freight brokers and logistics services providers are working to keep up with the trend.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

Effective inventory management has become increasingly crucial for businesses in this fast-paced and rapidly evolving era of ecommerce. Moreover, the ecommerce explosion has brought new and unique challenges that complicate inventory management for enterprises selling online.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Robert Cadena is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lean Solutions Group , which provides operational, marketing, sales, and technology services to the logistics and transportation industry. About Lean Solutions Group. Lean can deliver on this promise because they are the pioneers in helping U.S. Vendor Managed Inventory.

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Turvo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A managed inventory depends heavily on teams and leaders that can communicate with each other to avoid operational issues, overstocking, or worse, running out of inventory when the customer is ready to buy. It all makes communication a vital part of maintaining a managed inventory. Think about it.

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Unleashed

MAY 2, 2022

There are a lot of inventory performance measures you could track. Explore our live inventory calculators and formulas page. In this article on inventory performance measures. Why use performance measures for inventory management? Then you will need to know the inventory value at the end of the period.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Much like the most successful business philosophies (lean, six sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM)) a handful of individuals acting alone won’t—and can’t—affect company-wide changes for the better—it takes an organizational shift. It’s a holistic approach and one that needs to be adopted supply chain wide.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 13, 2016

The Internet of Things Will Increase and Benefit Real Time Inventory Management. As a result, logistics providers will be able to track inventory faster and more efficiently, which will reduce the amount of time required in shipping processes. This goes back to recent conversations about lean business processes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 21, 2020

A “Don’t Touch” Strategy will Dramatically Lean out your Supply Chain! Eliminating all unnecessary touches and hand-offs enables Costco to run a very lean and efficient Supply Chain. Inventory Turnover. Now a key metric to reflect how efficient Costco’s Supply Chain is would be inventory turnover.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 15, 2022

Many retailers are feeling inventory pains despite assuring analysts that they're quite pleased with their inventory levels. Mind you, some retailers may indeed be pleased with their inventory levels, but others may be trying to figure out where to store the excess inventory since so many warehouses are beyond full.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 25, 2015

Do you carry too much inventory? Reverse logistics occur in the afternoon, taking the tins all the way back to the suburbs. I consult and coach companies through their productivity challenges with my knowledge on supply chain and Lean Six Sigma best practices, all while managing the budget. Are orders being missed?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s premature to know at this stage what the full impact will be on our economies and supply chains, but we can expect more delays of supply of imported inventory, food, and component parts, due to reduced or rescheduled air and sea freight. Supply chain challenges. Responding to global disruptions.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 6, 2021

With inventory management and other software features built for the wholesale environment, you’ll be able to work towards success in a number of ways: improved profit margins by holding a lean inventory, optimising inefficiencies to cut labour costs, better strategic decision making through data… the list goes on.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Most definitions of disintermediation characterize it as the elimination of intermediaries, or “ cutting out the middleman “ Further consider that the “Wastes” associated with Lean thinking and principles include transportation, inventory, over production and motion amongst others. Why is this relevant?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This requires having visibility of costs across the business so issues can be identified as they occur – such as variations between expected and actual raw material and production costs; obsolete, slow-moving, and excessive inventories; and product defects and scrap. Streamline inventory. Control product design lifecycle.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2021

He explains, “The circular economy aims to eradicate waste — not just from manufacturing processes, as lean management aspires to do, but systematically, throughout the life cycles and uses of products and their components. Increase forecasting accuracy to reduce obsolete inventory. ocean plastics, product takebacks).”

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Best Practices like Logistics KPI Dashboard , Inventory Optimization Tool , Excess and Obsolete Inventory Guide , etc. Inventory Management & Optimization: Managing inventory as working capital, focusing on demand planning, optimization, safety stock management, and meeting customer service expectations.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 11, 2019

SCM encompasses the integrated planning and execution of processes required to optimize the flow of materials, information and financial capital in the areas that broadly include demand planning, sourcing, production, inventory management and storage, transportation — or logistics — and return for excess or defective products.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

From planning to negotiating to buying, from moving goods to processing goods, and from managing data to managing inventory. Lean for instance is equally applicable in Supply Chain as it is in Manufacturing or anywhere else. The Supply Chain function within your company has many responsibilities. Promoting Supply Chain Value.

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Locus

APRIL 3, 2023

All successful modern-day businesses rely on an efficient system of logistics management. This refers to planning, coordinating, and executing the flow and storage of goods and services, including activities such as transportation, inventory management, order processing, warehousing, packaging, and security. from 2019 to 2025.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Instead of setting up brick-and-mortar stores, or keeping inventory on hand, you can start offering this new product on your new store. Manufacturers will be able to improve their inventory due to the information presented by both supply chain and operations data.

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ThroughPut

JULY 9, 2025

It’s a strategic, big-picture function that includes procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and customer delivery — and all the relationships and processes in between. Real-World Example: Amazon’s two-day delivery is a result of highly optimized logistics, not just fast transportation. How can AI improve supply chain functions?

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 31, 2023

Retailers and brands are wringing out as much revenue as they can from costly inventories and returned merchandise. Throughout 2022 and into the holiday season, promotions were used to offload as much as possible of the front-end inventory to make way for new seasonal inventory. I wear a number of hats these days.

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6 River Systems

AUGUST 23, 2022

When done right, fulfillment management facilitates seamless execution of order picking, packing and other inbound/outbound logistics activities. It also ensures inventory is kept at optimal levels to satisfactorily fill customers’ orders without incurring high storage costs or overstocking inventory with low turnover.

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Shipchain

AUGUST 24, 2018

Every entity within a supply chain (including but not limited to freight brokers, third-party logistics providers, shippers, business-to-business resellers, suppliers and reverse logistics maintenance and management centers) can benefit from the marriage of blockchain and trucking technologies.

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The Lean Supply Chain

MAY 22, 2015

Simply put: inventory swings in larger and larger “waves” in response to customer demand (the handle of the whip), with the largest “wave” of the whip hitting the supplier of raw materials. The pulse of a lean supply chain is accuracy in demand planning. Excessive Inventory/inadequate inventory.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

That benefit could allow you to carry some extra inventory without risking heavy losses through obsolescence. For example, at Logistics Bureau, our consultants have extensive experience setting up 3PL contracts and providing guidance to clients during implementation, reducing the potential for relationship breakdowns further down the line.

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6 River Systems

MARCH 23, 2022

An Increasing Number of SKUs Consumer expectations are driving a trend toward inventorying a larger number of SKUs. Under the best conditions, reverse logistics can be a complicated process. Every minute a returned product sits waiting to be received back in inventory, it loses value. The Outlook.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 22, 2019

Our first belief is that the future Supply Chain must be based on a “Don’t Touch” philosophy, which we discussed in our article A Don’t Touch Strategy Will Dramatically Lean Out Your Supply Chain! This is completely consistent with a Lean approach which underscores the need to eliminate waste.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

Reverse logistics. Inventory levels. Once you have gathered the data relating to your customers’ needs, you should be able to see if a single logistics strategy will work for your entire customer base, or whether you need to take a segmented approach. Inventory optimization software. Lean supply chain practices.

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Cathy Roberson

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Perhaps a bit more upbeat is that more shippers this year believed that 3PLs contributed to reducing overall logistics, 68%, compared to 64% of shippers in 2020. But consumers have been in a buying mood with retail sales up 18.4% year-to-date through October, not seasonally adjusted.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 3, 2021

With so many more retailers now at various stages of transition to ecommerce , and unification of ecommerce and in-store fulfillment channels, innovators are focusing on new ways to exploit logistics capabilities for customer experience enhancement. The reverse logistics process, too, is a prime target for refinement.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Dreaming of an easy eCommerce inventory system? See multi-channel eCommerce inventory management in action. You need to have a lean mean supply chain machine to succeed at multichannel retailing. To maximise the benefits of multichannel retailing, it’s crucial that the right technology is integrated in the business. Learn more.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 11, 2013

Lean Manufacturing is eliminating waste in every stage of supply chain. It is the best practice to be followed since it reduces inventory, saves space and energy. Hence Lean manufacturing contributes to the Green environment. This contributes to lean manufacturing. Using EDI for creating/transmitting orders.

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