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146 days until Christmas - Are you ready?

Cathy Roberson

Consumers couldn’t get enough of buying goods since the pandemic occurred in 2020, and shippers struggled to keep enough inventory on hand once pre-pandemic inventories were depleted. As a result, many retailers are sitting on excess inventory. This year, everything seems to have changed again.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. Time horizon.

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Let’s Start a Revolution: Kinexions Supply Chain Conference Day 1

Kinaxis

by Melissa Clow How do you start a supply chain revolution in Nashville? In supply chain planning, there are a lot of individual processes – capacity planning, demand planning, inventory management, etc. After an electric and entertaining opener, it was time to get down to business.