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Customer-Centric Supply Chains: Adding Clarity to the Muddle

Supply Chain Shaman

Their vision was to manage distribution policies based on customer segmentation with a focus on reliability. At the second company, policies were clear and the focus was on reliable delivery. On this fall day, at this strategy workshop, this was the case. The organization was always jumping through hoops. My take away?

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What is Inventory Management?

EMERGE App

What is Inventory Management? Inventory management, in a nutshell, describes your efforts to manage, assess and report on the flow of your stock of goods. You might be using pencil-and-paper, spreadsheets or sophisticated inventory management software to do this. Two Essential Features of Inventory Management Today.

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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

At this time of year, we find many companies planning workshops to stimulate thinking on building a digital supply chain and igniting next-generation supply chain thinking. Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Customer Centric Policies.

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Accelerate Digitisation in the Supply Chain – Leveraging a Data-driven Approach to Optimisation – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Tracking the inventory and reorder point gives organizations complete control over their stocking policies is one of the many functions that it deploys. From gathering specifications, to scoping and customer discovery workshops, each client’s business needs are understood and translated into the developed product.

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Changing Mental Models

Supply Chain Shaman

I also had the opportunity to speak at the GHX conference and facilitate a leadership workshop on the required changes for implantable devices. Here are some of the quotes from the workshop I led yesterday that helped me to better understand the industry: “A process born out of chaos is chaos.

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Playing the Beer Game with JDA

BlueYonder

Interestingly, both teams wound up with high excess inventory in the chain. In the workshop, Andre Martin shared his experiences in implementing Flowcasting across multi-stage chains. Businesses are able to see their business rules and policies and determine if they really are appropriate. Collaboration and Clarity.

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How to Create an Unbeatable Retail Customer Experience in 2023

ShipBob

This includes: A detailed shipping policy , including returns Eye-catching product photos and important information An easy-to-search product catalog It’s not just about attracting the customer either — a strong ecommerce supply chain is key. A user-friendly and aesthetically-pleasing online store is important.

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