ShipBob

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is an inventory audit? When it comes to selling goods, ecommerce businesses may audit their inventory — whether it’s for tax purposes annually or to simply verify units on hand. Inventory audits can be done in-house or by a third party and represent one point in time. What is an inventory audit?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

Retailers are reviving an old playbook to manage their inventory levels after four years of struggling to find the sweet spot of holding enough merchandise but not too much. CargoNet ranks California, Texas and Florida as the top three hot spots in 2023, but the risk isn’t limited to the coasts.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Everything you need to know about inventory tax. Learn which states collect it, its impact on your business, how to reduce it, and how to leverage fulfillment technology to accurately track and control inventory. Understanding Inventory Tax. Is There a Federal Inventory Tax? How Does Inventory Tax Affect My Business?

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 1, 2022

Returns come with plenty of challenges around logistics, inventory, and predicting volatile sales trends. Find out how MFP can help you more accurately forecast purchasing needs, meet financial goals, and drive optimal inventory levels. Retailers Quietly Offering a “Keep the Item” Return Policy. There’s an added benefit as well.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. Pinnacle Propane is based out of Irving, Texas. Pinnacle Propane was founded in 2010 through the acquisition of several retail propane companies in Central, South and West Texas.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2022

The joint press release points out the technology’s ability to build palletized loads of department-sorted inventory and its strategic role in supporting Walmart’s goal of modernizing its vast supply chain network and allowing the company to transform its regional distribution centers to provide faster responsiveness to store orders.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

Wing already handles drone deliveries at Walmart Supercenters in Frisco, Texas, and the Dallas area. Walmart unleashes ‘largest drone delivery footprint of any U.S. retailer thanks to partnerships with Wing and Zipline. In 2022, the company shifted away from national fulfillment to a regionalized network model.

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Stord

APRIL 16, 2024

As we continually learn, a modern WMS designed to handle high volumes as well as business complexity can make the contingency planning process easier through automated workflows and intelligent inventory routing. Luckily we have one of those WMS here to manage our network of fulfillment centers!)

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Logility

OCTOBER 25, 2018

When you boil it down, a product’s shelf life is very short and if you don’t sell it, that inventory will be discounted shrinking already razor thin margins. Running out of Reese’s Cups in Texas where 245,135 pounds are projected to be consumed would lead to some mighty unhappy Texan’s (Don’t Mess with Texas!).

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

By 1956, the first container ship sailed from the port of New Jersey to Texas. By having more efficient delivery routes, warehouses, and inventory systems in place, companies can reduce their operational costs while still delivering great customer service.” Shipments forever changed how goods moved around the world.

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Stord

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Prior to Stord, Gel Blaster was relying on four fulfillment vendors, each servicing a different line of business, which made it impossible to offer a consistent delivery experience, and manage orders and inventory across channels from a single platform. About Gel Blaster Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Gel Blaster Inc.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The rain has stopped in Houston, Texas, but the traumatic conditions left by Tropical Storm Harvey have not yet cleared. As of Thursday, August 30, the number of people killed by this catastrophic event has already reached to at least 35 people, 17 people were missing while more than 32,000 people sought refuge in Texas shelters.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 17, 2021

Even though supply disruptions have eased from 1) the worst days of the pandemic lockdowns, 2) Hurricane Laura and 3) the Texas deep freeze, Resilinc’s EventWatch continues to alert customers to a large number of potential disruptions related to polymer. In China, building up inventories is a trend that predated the pandemic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

A company can choose to maintain a high level of costly inventory to ensure short lead times, and a family can decide to live farther away from work and school but buy a bigger house. When most people hear the word “optimization,” they immediately think about minimizing costs. But optimization is much more than that!

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Join Benji Green , Director of Global Sales, Operations, Supply and Inventory Planning at Avaya for the Kinaxis supply chain optimization workshop on December 9th. Dallas, Texas. Register using the link below to receive 25% off your registration. December 8-10, 2014. Learn More and Register for the Summit. Schedule Meeting.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2024

She earned her BA at UCLA, and her MBA from the University of Texas. Inventory Intelligence: Gain real-time inventory insights and demand forecasting to minimize stockouts, optimize inventory allocation, and avoid wasted resources.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Hurricane Harvey has struck a significant blow to the Houston, Texas metro area, home to the sixth largest import terminal in the world, as well as all of the shipping lanes in the Gulf Coast area. For manufacturing, those metrics are new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories of input materials.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Turvo is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Hyderabad, India. Due to customer demand for faster transit times, food inventory must be stored closer to customers. Key Takeaways: Reimagining the Food Supply Chain. Meanwhile, the bar has raised for food producers. Eric Ristow.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2019

Meanwhile, inventory levels rose 3.6 For instance, a Walmart in Texas had printed “Discounts may apply,” on boxes picked up in-store in Lubbock, Texas for online purchases. Spot rates rose 9 percent, but some were as high as 12 percent. How Surface Mode Shippers Can Compete in E-Commerce Logistics.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

MARCH 30, 2023

signed with Herlitz Inventory Management for its buying team. The Amarillo, Texas-based grocery distributor plans to roll out the HIMPACT solution to its full team of buyers in the coming months to begin reaping its cost-saving and inventory-optimizing rewards. In January 2023, grocery distributor Affiliated Foods Inc.

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Elementum

AUGUST 29, 2017

10 refineries close as Harvey drenches Texas energy hub. Rail freight networks operated by Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific in Texas, USA were heavily disrupted due to Hurricane Harvey, according to reports on Friday, August 25th. More than a quarter of a million were without power in Texas. Hobby Airport.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The Texas freeze and the power outages brought the world’s largest petrochemical complex to a standstill, forcing more plants in the Gulf of Mexico region to shut down than during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. For one of the high grade ethylene required, there is only one manufacturer in North America, who is in Texas (Eastman Chemical).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

including digital control towers fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics, strategic product segmentation, inventory management, operations intelligence and analysis, strategic sourcing, and effective pricing and promotions management.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2021

Turvo is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Hyderabad, India. Due to customer demand for faster transit times, food inventory must be stored closer to customers. Key Takeaways: Reimagining the Food Supply Chain. Meanwhile, the bar has raised for food producers. Eric Ristow.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 30, 2014

I’m not sure I’ve ever talked to a Demand Solutions customer who wasn’t at least tracking their inventory levels, overstocks, stockouts, and so forth. When an item is out of stock in their Massachusetts warehouse, they’ll overnight it from their Texas warehouse just to make sure they fill the order.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 10, 2018

By combining advances in computational intelligence, natural language processing and semantic reasoning, a number of leading companies are already realizing these returns along the value chain in the form of hyper-personalized consumer insights, to sales and marketing strategies and optimized supply chain planning and inventory optimization.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It covers every aspect of dealing with customer returns, including policy management, reverse logistics, customer service, returned goods inventory management , and developing strategies to reduce return rates. One paper from the University of Texas at Arlington suggests that lenience may yield better results than strictness.

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Turvo

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The 3PL challenges Components enabling third-party logistics include critical functions like warehouse management, order fulfillment, and inventory management and thus serve as the heart of any supply chain. Turvo is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Hyderabad, India. Request a Turvo Demo. .

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Turvo

MARCH 1, 2022

It is a new shipper-carrier collaboration approach to enhance supply chain visibility, reducing transit times, and inventory-carrying costs for retailers and suppliers while improving carrier asset utilization levels. . As a result, there is often excessive inventory and under-utilized carrier capacity.

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E2open

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Report outlines approach to corporate purpose and sustainability, and the value it provides to clients’ ESG goals AUSTIN, Texas – Oct. Platform: E2open’s platform is already helping clients in four key areas: transportation, manufacturing, inventory and fulfillment, and partner networks. 10, 2022 – E2open Parent Holdings, Inc.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2016

Addressing an issue, Your inventory is messed! With your inventory flow, How goes your plan? There once was a planner from Texas. There once was an Inventory Manager with much excess, Knew this wouldn’t help her company’s success. What needs your attention? Your dashboard will say! Wondering what to do next?

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Meanwhile, this large volume of expenses is directly related to 80 percent or a company’s working capital via inventory and accounts payable. According to Paul Myerson , reports Industry Week, up 70 percent of a company’s costs come from procurement and logistics operations.

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Ware2Go

APRIL 18, 2022

Amazon has virtually created consumer demand for 1- to 2-day shipping, and they’ve learned the most cost effective and efficient way to deliver: inventory distribution. By distributing inventory strategically, they create a distribution network optimized for 1- to 2-day ground shipping , making their delivery times both fast and affordable.

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Zipline Logistics

MARCH 30, 2021

These conditions were exacerbated by heavy winter storms that crippled Texas and the surrounding areas; however, conditions are leveling off somewhat. . “The markets with the largest gains this week in OTVI.USA were Laredo, Texas (12.07%) Memphis, Tennessee (5.37%) and Cleveland (5.08%). . and seems to be stable.

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RFgen

APRIL 21, 2021

Too many utility companies lose track of valuable inventory and assets in the field. By mobilizing manual inventory processes, utilities gain crucial oversight of inventory—even in disconnected environments. Mobile inventory management solutions give utility companies the oversight they need in the field.

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RFgen

APRIL 21, 2021

Too many utility companies lose track of valuable inventory and assets in the field. By mobilizing manual inventory processes, utilities gain crucial oversight of inventory—even in disconnected environments. Mobile inventory management solutions give utility companies the oversight they need in the field.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 28, 2020

Forrester analyst Sucharita Kodali described omnichannel programs … as ‘still a work in progress,’ with inventory accuracy and forecasting demand as top challenges. 5] Emma Cosgrove, “ Omnichannel comes to the fore as Texas launches plan to reopen retail ,” Supply Chain Dive , 21 April 2020. [6]

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