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Editor’s Choice: 8 Supply Chain Planning Challenges Retailers Will Face In 2022 And Tips To Overcome Them

Logistics Viewpoints

As we have seen in 2021, businesses automated and integrated supply chain planning capabilities, including demand-sensing , dynamic safety-stock management , inventory optimization , and external collaboration. We stopped going to the gyms and favored outdoor activities or at-home exercises.

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Unleashed Cash Flow Workshop: Experts Share Tips for Generating Cash Flow & Mitigating Risk

Unleashed

As a result, significant amounts of cash flow remain tied up in unmoving inventory. Converting overstocked inventory into positive cash flow While prevention may be preferable to cure, the reality is that many firms are still stuck with excess stock tying up their cash flow and costing them thousands in storage fees. Look at it fresh.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #1

Supply Chain Trend

This implementation was a “white board / bootstrap” exercise; we totally designed and changed our processes to adopt much of the standard Oliver Wight methodologies and processes, which included extensive education and workshops to start, and then full implementation. Prior to this experience, I never heard of S&OP or Oliver Wight.

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Supply Chain Education: What Skills Do Your Staff Need?

Logistics Bureau

We take a pragmatic approach to education using a blended learning model , combining a number of classroom-based workshops with a full program of online classes , educational videos, and other forms of media designed to make the learning process productive and enjoyable. Inventory management.

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Santa’s Supply Chain: Holiday Logistics in 2020

BlueYonder

Like many, he switched some of his market intelligence gathering online – taking to Microsoft Teams, Zoom, FaceTime and other video conferencing platforms to talk to children across the globe about their wishes for the holiday season. He’s Making a List, and Checking Inventory. But in 2020 some of the elves have had to work from home.

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The Best Time to Kick Off a Continuous Improvement Initiative

synchrono

With support from the COO, production managers decide the best way to cut costs is to lower inventory levels by implementing constraints management. In this scenario, the machinist does some reading on Lean and attends a few workshops during his downtime. Post : How the Internet of Things Can Help Lower Inventory Levels.

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Meeting Peak Period Labor Challenges Using Collaborative Robots

Locus Robotics

Based on results from real customers such as DHL and GEODIS, (put link links to videos) deploying collaborative autonomous mobile robots is quickly producing real economic benefits and taking a major bite out of the labor challenges. I highly recommend scheduling one of our Solution Design Workshops (SDW) onsite at your facility.

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