article thumbnail

Is Inventory Waste or an Asset?

Supply Chain Shaman

I am sitt ing in seat 4E on an evening flight to San Francisco thinking about my day. It is Labor Day weekend in the United States, and the plane is full. We feel so strongly about this that we do not have an inventory planning role.” His feeling was that inventory is an asset to manage. My Insights.

article thumbnail

Top Digital Supply Chain Cities in the U.S.

Material Handling & Logistics

Deloitte Consulting and the Metro Atlanta Chamber have teamed up to analyze how seven large metropolitan areas of the United States are transforming their traditional supply chain base into digital supply chains. San Francisco Bay area. San Francisco Bay area. Printer-friendly version. Media Type.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

This Week in Supply Chain Management Technology – Shopify and Panasonic

Supply Chain Matters

Online commerce platform provider Shopify , often compared to Amazon in the ability to support small and mid-sized businesses create and maintain an online shipping presence, announced thi9s week its intent to acquire end-to-end online logistics San Francisco based fulfillment provider Deliverr for a reported $2.1

article thumbnail

The Strategic National Stockpile that Failed Us

NC State SCRC

The COVID-19 crisis arrived in the United States in February and was largely dismissed as a non-threatening issue. i] As the virus spread more quickly in Washington State, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, the administration quickly realized that the coronavirus would not be “magically going away.”

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (December 11-15, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Christmas Becomes Inventory War Game for US Fashion Brands (Business of Fashion). San Francisco made things much tougher for robotic delivery startups this week (TechCrunch). Grocery delivery has been the toughest nut to crack — that is, profitable grocery delivery, particularly here in the United States.

article thumbnail

Top 12 New Logistics Startup Companies Making Noise

ShipBob

Inventory management. Seed Funding: $125k Asimov Ventures, Montage Ventures, VTF Capital, and more Cin7 Cin7 provides cloud-based inventory and order management software to increase efficiency. With Cin7 , business owners are able tailor inventory and order management to suit their respective needs. Inventory Planner.

article thumbnail

Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

Walmart would not have the ability to provide such low prices and have consistent inventory in the over 5,000 stores in the United States and over 1.3 Benefits from its supply chain efficiency result in time savings, more cost-effective inventory management and improved product forecasting, the article said.

Gartner 120