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Supply Chain Planning Software Vendor Selection: What they Won’t Tell You

Logility

Whether your definition of value includes on-time, in-full (OTIF), inventory reduction or optimization, transportation spend, speed of decision making, supply chain costs, net working capital, or a myriad of other value measures, you know your business better than anyone. They’re also how you will hold one another accountable.

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My Biggest Mistake: Inventory Levels are the Thermometer for the Management of the Company

Arkieva

As a Phd in inventory optimization, I’ve started my supply chain career in adjusting inventory parameters with surgical precision. Calculating inventory parameters, using Linear Programming to optimize planning. This week I had a workshop where we made a fishbone diagram of what drives excess inventory and/or stock-outs.

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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

OI has been more focused on transactional efficiency, procurement and IT standardization. A company that is effectively working a supply chain strategy will have a nice, neat pattern at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Contrast the patterns of the two companies in figure 2. So, what can we learn?

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Allopneus.com Optimizes Inventory and Improves Competitiveness with ToolsGroup

ToolsGroup

ToolsGroup supply chain planning software allows Allopneus.com to improve inventory quality while reducing storage space at its national distribution center by almost 20%. As a result, we need to have more than 20,000 SKUs in stock,” explains Pierre-Jean Coltat, procurement and planning manager at Allopneus. NEWS RELEASE.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

Visibility into the Network side of the business was limited to the company’s engineering and procurement department. Our inventory levels on this side of the business tend to be quite high, with a rotation going to 1 year. I guess in the CPE side of the business, we proved that we could bring down inventory levels and generate value.

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Top 10 Best Supply Chain Job Boards

SCMDOJO

National Association of Educational Procurement. Jobsinlogistics.com is the first and largest online logistics job board specializing in career opportunities in logistics, supply chain, distribution, transportation, warehousing, freight forwarding, manufacturing, purchasing, and inventory management. Michael Page. Naukri Gulf.

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6 Tips for Students to Develop a Career in the Supply Chain

SCMDOJO

Pursuing a degree in these areas will equip you with the fundamental knowledge of supply chain principles, such as procurement, inventory management, logistics, and operations strategy. Get Familiar with WMS : Explore warehouse management systems to understand how they enhance inventory tracking and improve order fulfillment.