New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Supply planners routinely plan purchasing, manufacturing, and outbound shipments based on detailed parameters relating to inventory levels, purchasing lead times, and manufacturing capacity. Yet in most companies, such plans seldom take into account transportation capacity or availability. Rising Transportation Costs.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

All of the above (and other down-stream KPIs and processes) are heavily influenced by the accuracy of a demand forecast: if the demand forecast is much more accurate, a company is more likely to have the right product, in the right quantities in inventory and will have less of the products in inventory that is not required. Louis, M.S.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Centralisation then, is all about taking procurement and logistics out of the hands of medical professionals and placing it under its own governance structure. Vendor-managed Inventory. Mercy chose to insource storage and transportation, and claims to have saved 15 to 30% annually on logistics and distribution costs.

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