Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How will the policy be executed? Today, there is not a well-defined template on how to build and operate a supply chain defined by customer policy and segmentation strategy. Spinnaker Management Group asked me to co-present on a demand-driven webinar with SanDisk. How do they buy from you? Why does it matter to you?

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The Smart Software

JUNE 19, 2023

Managing spare parts presents numerous challenges, such as unexpected breakdowns, changing schedules, and inconsistent demand patterns. Explore these strategies to optimize spare parts inventory and improve operational efficiency. Traditional forecasting methods and manual approaches are ineffective in dealing with these complexities.

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Unleashed

JUNE 7, 2023

Inventory optimisation is the process that enables efficient inventory management. In this guide, we define inventory optimisation and offer a few actionable tips and strategies for getting it right every time. In this inventory optimisation guide: What is inventory optimisation?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Inventory Is an Egregious Symptom of Supply Chains Gone Wrong. Today, inventory fire sales abound. Headline news included Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl’s and Macy’s struggling with inventory bloat and offering deep discounts. Wall Street Journal Headline on Retailers Using Containers to Store Excess Inventories. My take away?

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The Importance of Inventory Management. When it comes to inventory management, new trends are demonstrating that less is more. Having less inventory on-hand increases liquidation, allowing for a more agile response to shifting consumer trends. Getting the Right Tools for the Job.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

This year supply chain leaders will celebrate thirty years of progress in supply chain management; but we have not made progress on one of the funamentals: inventory management. I think that it is time for us to take the litmus test and ask the hard questions, “Have our practices impacted days of inventory? I want to believe.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Finally, US trade policies, including high import tariffs and stringent labeling requirements, are prohibitive towards increasing the imports of baby formula to the US in the short horizon. Planners’ visibility to trade policies may have helped with alternate sourcing plans ahead of plant closure.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last week, I gave the keynote presentation at the Dangerous Goods Symposium, sponsored by LabelMaster and the DG Exchange. In my presentation, I highlighted five key transportation trends that are changing supply chains from a technology standpoint. Inventory Management in a High Inflation Environment ; Clint Reiser.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company accepts or rejects the return request: Depending on the company’s return policy, the dedicated personnel accept or reject the return request. Restocking and putting back in inventory: If the product is QC passed, the warehouse stores and stocks it as per the inventory policy.

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Demand Solutions

MARCH 27, 2020

When trying to answer this question, many people think of company perks like benefits programs, flexible schedules, office lunch parties and open-door policies. This past March, Tim Carroll, Product Availability Team Captain at AutomationDirect, was presented the 2020 World-Class Culture Award at the Atlanta Supply Chain Awards (ASCA).

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The staff at SupplyChainBrain explains, “Overstocked retailers are cutting back on lenient pandemic-era return policies heading into the holiday season.”[2]. Today’s consumers take a lot of factors into consideration when they make a purchase — including product availability, price, delivery dates, and return policies.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The underlying theme in all presentations, and my conversations at the event, was digital transformation. Several presentations delved into how these two technologies support each other, the main takeaway for me was the role machine learning could have in closing the gap between prescriptive analytics and execution.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. The decline in inventory turns uses cash. The range depends on sales velocity, replenishment policy, and shelf assortment.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 25, 2024

billion, a reflection of increased price discounting and a building inventory of unsold vehicles. In the latter category, global vehicle inventory expressed in days of supply was reported as 28 days, compared to 15 days in the year-earlier quarter. Financial headlines included quarterly total revenue declining 9 percent to $21.3

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Define inventory policies . Plan and optimize our inventory . C apture current inventory levels . It also allows you to test the understanding or subject-matter knowledge of the vendor, giving them an open forum to present how their solution supports these capabilities. . The next level down might be: .

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 18, 2024

There, too, policy has shifted from reliance on the free market and private business towards greater government control.”[3] The Economist staff argues that the decision to glocalize should be left to individual companies rather than having them forced to make that decision by national trade policy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The rapid shifts to eCommerce during the pandemic caused retailers and brand owners alike to flex their network nodes (where goods are made and inventories are stocked) significantly. The supply chain nodes which were once deemed to be relatively static have become far more dynamic in the recent past.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The underlying theme in all presentations, and my conversations at the event, was digital transformation. Several presentations delved into how these two technologies support each other, the main takeaway for me was the role machine learning could have in closing the gap between prescriptive analytics and execution.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2023

The information is presented in a simple and understandable way. It presents a holistic approach incorporating People, Process, and Technology and calls-out industry-specific supply chains. Affordable assistance for studying. Cons: The course material may not be suitable for beginners. Rating: This course is rated 5 out of 5. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Over the last six years, we studied the connection between business results (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)) and the link to company characteristics. In our monthly webinar last Wednesday, I presented these results. Recently, I was presenting to a supply chain team in Europe.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2021

” With COVID-19 still a problem heading into this year’s holiday shopping season, returns are again going to present a challenge for both online and brick-and-mortar retailers. Because the digital path to purchase can easily be abandoned, retailers understand that a good returns policy can be a competitive differentiator.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 29, 2023

Having a disjointed view of inventory and customer data across both physical and online channels is no longer an option for retailers. Implementing an OMS effectively can provide significant value to your commerce outlook, offering a centralized platform for managing orders, inventory and fulfillment across the omni-channel landscape.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

China’s zero tolerance policy for dealing with the pandemic repeatedly created unanticipated and undesirable disruptions. Even though China has now relaxed those policies, the country is dealing with a severe Covid outbreak that continues to cause disruptions. In addition, many more workers have left the industry this year.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

Leaders will again be presented with an environment of uncertainty and differing economic, financial and risk based outlooks, depending on geographic region, or specific industry product demand or supply network sector. Other businesses across industry sectors will seek to achieve 2024 growth by seizing added market share.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 28, 2020

We’ve captured the key takeaways from his presentation below to help you prepare for the ongoing business impacts of pandemics such as COVID-19. As a consequence inventory became difficult to plan. It will certainly require a more adaptive consideration of where inventory is placed to protect customer service.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Define inventory policies . Plan and optimize our inventory . C apture current inventory levels . It also allows you to test the understanding or subject-matter knowledge of the vendor, giving them an open forum to present how their solution supports these capabilities. . The next level down might be: .

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Yet according to retail advisory firm IHL , “The most significant challenges to inventory distortion are the availability of workers and the disruptions outside of the immediate control of the retailer.” The article states that “presently, there are nearly two open jobs for every unemployed worker.”

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The underlying theme in all presentations, and my conversations at the event, was digital transformation. Several presentations delved into how these two technologies support each other, the main takeaway for me was the role machine learning could have in closing the gap between prescriptive analytics and execution.

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Logility

JANUARY 25, 2018

Traditionally, complexity required increasing inventory levels to buffer against the unknown, which in turn brought about more scrutiny from senior management as working capital increased. Industry research and surveys point to Inventory Optimization (IO) as a key capability to combat these growing supply chain stresses.

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Logility

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Just to level set, the Brundtland Commission defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” What about warehousing, inventory management and the efficient maintenance of your capital equipment?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. An example of social listening is the Lenovo Case Study presented at the 2015 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Order Policy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

With the downturn in the financial markets, the looming recession, and the fundamental shifts in demand—less travel and stay at home work policies—demand is changing. Simplistic thinking of trading-off customer service, inventory and cost became much, more complicated with the shifts in asset strategies. Presentations are hand-picked.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

As I sat at the airport I worked on my presentation for the Supply Chain Insights’ webinar on building a customer-centric supply chain on August 17. During my webinar on August 17 th , I will co-present with Mark Hersh from Clorox. Use channel data and orchestrate supply chain policy to improve outcomes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

It comes in many flavors–increase in inventory, changes in sales policies, new product lines– all add to the complexity. The only industry that has made progress in inventory management is consumer electronics. The only industry that has made progress in inventory management is consumer electronics.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Our belief was that the year 2021 provided companies as well as government policy makers considerable painful evidence to the inherent vulnerabilities of globally extended and highly complex supply chains and of the needs among businesses to be able to better respond to major product demand and supply shocks.

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The Smart Software

AUGUST 4, 2020

Smart Software today announced that Dr. Thomas Willemain, co–Founder and SVP Research, will present the Video Session "Top Inventory Policies Explained" at P21WWUG CONNECT 2020 from August 14 - September 11 , 2020. The post Smart Software to Present at P21WWUG CONNECT 2020 appeared first on Smart Software.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Greenwashing is a form of advertising or marketing spin in which green PR and green marketing are deceptively used to persuade the public that an organization’s products, aims and policies are environmentally friendly. Although port volumes increased in August, demand remains lower as shippers continue to face excess inventory levels.

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