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My Video Call with Santa Claus

Logility

(Read A Phone Call with Santa Claus ) Our conversation must have had an impact because this year Santa sent me an invite for a video call to discuss their progress and ideas around next steps. Clearly, Santa is taking the move to more advanced technology seriously if he is now sending invites for video calls.

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Manufacturing Inventory Management: The Manufacturer’s Guide

Unleashed

Manufacturing inventory management is crucial to the success and profitability of your manufacturing operations. This guide for manufacturers explains how it works and explores the most effective ways to manage inventory in manufacturing. In this manufacturing inventory management guide What is manufacturing inventory management?

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Smart Software to Present at Epicor Insights 2021

The Smart Software

Smart Software President and CEO to present Insights 2021 Breakout Session on Creating Competitive Advantage with Smart Inventory Planning and Optimization. Empower planning teams to reduce inventory, improve service levels, and increase operational efficiency.

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Raw Material Inventory Management: Manufacturer’s Guide

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Raw material inventory management oversees the procurement, handling, and storage of raw materials. It ensures you maintain optimal raw materials inventory levels, and therefore plays a crucial role in optimising your manufacturing processes. In this guide: What is raw material inventory management?

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Top Talking Logistics Videos and Posts in 2018

Talking Logistics

In the meantime, in case you missed them the first time around or want to watch/read them again, below are the most popular Talking Logistics posts we published this year and the video episodes we aired during the second half of the year. Truck Capacity Shortage: The Past, Present and Future. Top 10 Talking Logistics Posts in 2018.

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The Two Levers of Inventory Optimization

Logility

Back to present day and the supply chain. Two powerful levers a company can use to optimize inventory are “Working Capital” and “Customer Service Levels.” At its most basic, start with a piece of graph paper and plot your current service level on the x-axis and current inventory level on the y-axis.

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Is Inventory Waste or an Asset?

Supply Chain Shaman

We were discussing the results of the planning benchmarking work that we have just finished, and I was sharing some insights on inventory management when one of the panelists emphatically stated, “Inventory is a waste to manage. We feel so strongly about this that we do not have an inventory planning role.”