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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. One master of freight procurement is Kyle Masters. Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer.

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Supply Chain Dashboards – Key Metrics For Manufacturers

Silvon Software

As I mentioned in my previous post, Sales Dashboards – 16 Metrics for Manufacturers , a strategy for measuring business performance should also incorporate metrics that focus on the supply chain and other operational areas of the enterprise. As with any analytics project, start small and work your way towards your goal.

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Are You Caught in Word Salad Dribble?

Supply Chain Shaman

Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Let’s take a couple of examples: Retail Available to Promise (ATP). A major retailer has 33 instances of Manhattan. Contract Manufacturing Signal Latency. days to receive a purchase order confirmation.

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Retailers know firsthand how quickly the market can change. Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions.

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

Logistics Viewpoints

The retail industry is rich with data. Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail. Retailers can apply cluster analysis techniques in different ways to find groups of customers, products, stores, or suppliers that behave similarly. Traditionally, this has been done by ranking the products based on sales performance.

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What is Lean Retail (+ Why Retailers Must Embrace It)

ToolsGroup

With the advent of globalization, the Internet, and more recently, the proliferation of mobile technology into every aspect of our lives, there has been a remarkable shift in the world of retail from a product-centric to customer-centric model. What is Lean Retail? The impact of lean retail on supply chain management.

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What Are Retail KPIs? The Most Important Retail Metrics in 2023

ShipBob

As a retailer, so much of your time and energy goes into managing your inventory , streamlining your logistics, building partnerships, and curating the customer experience. To find out, you’ll need to track Key performance Indicators, or KPIs, for your retail business. What is a retail KPI? Why are retail metrics important?