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How AI is Transforming Aftermarket Parts Planning

ToolsGroup

Your Aftermarket Supply Chain is More Complex Than You Think: Stop Guessing, Start Optimizing Lets be honest: managing spare parts inventory requires specialized strategies unlike any other inventory management process. Suboptimal inventory distribution: excessive stock in low-demand locations and shortages in high-demand areas.

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The Pressures of Omni-Channel Fulfillment and Returns Are Growing

BlueYonder

They must track inventory, orders and returns in real time, at all times. And they need to manage their resources, from inventory and labor to forklifts and robotics, with incredible precision keeping all assets moving productively, while avoiding excess inventory and equipment downtime. Increasing reverse logistics complexity.

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Stop Guessing, Start Optimizing: How AI is Transforming Aftermarket Parts Planning

ToolsGroup

Your Aftermarket Supply Chain is More Complex Than You Think Lets be honest: managing spare parts inventory requires specialized strategies unlike any other inventory management process. Suboptimal inventory distribution: excessive stock in low-demand locations and shortages in high-demand areas. The outcome?

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Why the Future of Freight Is Multimodal

Supply Chain Brain

Because logistics are tightly woven into production, fulfillment and the customer experience, the impact of a transit issue, like a delayed shipment, can quickly ripple across the whole business. Inventory buffers shrink. Increasingly, companies are weighing transportation efficiency as a factor in where and how they source.

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Identifying the Source of Products Through Chemical ‘Fingerprinting’

Supply Chain Brain

Bowman, SupplyChainBrain The science of forensic chemistry, familiar to millions of viewers of crime dramas on TV and film, is playing a key role today in tracing the source of products all the way back to their origin. Ethical sourcing science can be applied in so many different ways,” she adds. Or so they say, when asked in surveys.)

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Peak Season Prep: How to Start Planning for Q4 Fulfillment Now 

3PL Insights

Strategize Inventory Planning Accurate inventory management is essential during Q4. Begin working with your suppliers and logistics partners now to ensure timely replenishment and efficient warehousing. Tips for better inventory planning: Reorder early : Avoid delays caused by global supply chain congestion. Learn more.

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AI-Tuned Pricing and Inventory Strategies are the Way Forward for Retailers

Supply Chain Brain

By harnessing the growing power of AI to not only sense demand at a very fine-grain, real-time level, but also to govern decisions about pricing and inventory. In terms of inventory strategy, First Insight assigns each SKU a unique “Value Score” based on a range of factors, including pricing, likeability and consumers’ likelihood of purchase.