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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. Owens Illinois provides glass products and Sonoco Products provides flexible packaging. ” As a supplier three to four levels back in the supply chain, life as a packaging provider is tough. It cannot be about singular metrics.

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Shipping Perfection Unlocked: The Insider’s Playbook to Outsmarting Misships and Winning Customer Loyalty

RFgen

Overhead swells in direct proportion to misships, adding greater expense for return shipping fees, overnight and same-day ordering, wasted inventory, chargebacks , wages, and loss of customers. Both help assure that packages are correctly labeled and addressed. Both help assure that packages are correctly labeled and addressed.

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How to Create an Effective Marketing Plan for the Food & Beverage Industry

Unleashed

Focus on opportunities The development of your marketing plan should start with a workshop of key executives considering what the business’s goals are, along with its Unique Selling Proposition, key messages, stakeholders (including consumers) and how to engage with and influence them. Pay attention to packaging Packaging matters.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #1

Supply Chain Trend

This implementation was a “white board / bootstrap” exercise; we totally designed and changed our processes to adopt much of the standard Oliver Wight methodologies and processes, which included extensive education and workshops to start, and then full implementation. Prior to this experience, I never heard of S&OP or Oliver Wight.

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How emerging brands can emerge quicker with data

crisp

Crisp’s VP of Sales shares advice from a recent workshop with Emerge to help brands grow smarter with data, which is just as important — if not more important — in the early years. Or if your product is moving slowly and you’re heavy in inventory, you can reduce shipments to free up cash and stay lean.

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Clorox Successfully Implements a Program for Value Chain Segmentation

Supply Chain Shaman

Value Chain segmentation—designing a fit for purpose supply chain—was the focus of the strategy day workshop. In this period, Clorox was acquiring products with significantly higher margins and lower inventory turns. While retail companies improved inventory, they lost ground on growth and operating margin.

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50 expert tips on logistics planning and strategy

6 River Systems

NetSuite has launched a supply chain snapshot feature that’s a central part of any control tower that shows all of your inventory and related transactions with the ability to filter by subsidiary, location, etc. “As for your internal systems, real-time inventory management helps you manage your fulfillment warehouses.