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Overcoming Data Pitfalls for Reliable Supply Chain Network Design

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chain network design, a branch of operations research, helps in strategic decision-making about nodes, sourcing, transportation modes and inventory levels.

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Supply Chain Network Design: 3 Ways to Prepare for Trends Stirring Up 2023

Logility

Higher interest rates and materials prices are increasing the costs of carrying inventory. And rapid shifts in market demand always leave someone holding excess inventory. Here are three ways to protect your margins by enhancing your supply chain network design. Should you explore nearshoring or friendshoring?

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What’s wrong with Strategic Network Design?

ToolsGroup

The problem with strategic network design is when it accounts for service time but not service level. It optimizes the network, but it doesn’t optimize inventory across the network – a shortcut that can lead to a different network once the inventory is optimized. A very different network can emerge.

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Network Design in supply Chain

20Cube Logistics

Supply chain Network Design can be explained as the strategic planning of the supply chain in order to measure the cost and the time required to bring the goods and services from manufacturers and suppliers to the market. Inventory planning and management. Importance of network design in supply chain. Advantages.

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5 Powerful Prescriptive Analytics Examples in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network Design. Inventory optimization. Supply chain, with its complex planning questions, is typically an area where optimization technology is required. Read about 5 use cases. Sales and operations planning (S&OP). Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE). Warehouse optimization.

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Inventory Strategies: Evaluating Constant Disruptions

Logility

Inventory strategies begin with an efficient network design to effectively balance your ability to accurately predict customer demand and work with suppliers to adjust orders in real time. Routine firefighting of inventory issues is a symptom of inventory strategies treated as a once-a-year exercise.

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10 Best Inventory Management Books

EMERGE App

Inventory management is a tough task, especially when you’re starting out. There are lots of inventory management books available which can help you understand basics, but I am here with the list of best books in the market. Best Inventory Management Books of All Time: 1.

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Key Questions for a Successful Distribution Network

Speaker: Irina Rosca, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Helix

Can we use historical data to plan for demand and design our networks, or is there a better way? If we're going to offer the speed of shipping and variety of inventory that today's customers have come to expect, there are a lot of different questions that need to be asked.

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Elevate Your Supply Chain Resilience With Scenario Planning

Speaker: Robert Olszak- Vice President, Global Supply Chain Optimization, RGP

To better prepare for the next generation of supply chain management, organizations are adopting industry-leading inventory and network optimization tools to establish sophisticated and mature supply chain digital ecosystems.