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When It Comes To Excess Inventory, Prevention Is Better Than Cure
Excess inventory – it’s taking up your warehouse space, tying up working capital, and limiting your planning team’s range of motion. It’s time to Marie Kondo your supply chain by eliminating excess inventory and learning how to avoid it in the first place. Let’s talk...
Seasonal Inventory and 7 Ways to Manage It Effectively
My eight-year-old self counted down the days to October 1 – the day my mother finally let me bedeck her spotless house with cobwebs and window clings of ghosts and goblins. It never occurred to me then that someone had to decide how many pumpkins to stock in my little...
Inventory Control in Manufacturing: 7 Strategies to Maximize Service Levels and Profit Amid Disruption
Like most industries, manufacturers around the world are feeling the pinch of inventory disruption brought on by shortages and other supply chain challenges. But manufacturers are unique. Unlike many businesses who sell finished products, manufacturers...
5 Ways Businesses Are Uncovering Success With AI In Manufacturing
Automation is at the center of modern manufacturing businesses, with companies exploring the possibilities of artificial intelligence in improving workflows and profitability. AI technology is continually revolutionizing how equipment and humans operate on...
6 Critical Trends in Distribution and How to Optimize Your Network’s Response
From digitalization and changing workforces to trend reversals and inventory overloads, distributors have their hands full when it comes to tackling the latest supply chain challenges. Over the past couple of years, supply chains have undergone a baptism by fire,...
The Top 15 Omnichannel Retail Trends to Watch in 2022
Your digital and brick-and-mortar sales channels aren’t operating in separate vacuums. In fact, according to Harvard Business Review, 73% of shoppers prefer shopping via multiple channels. In a world where customer expectations are higher (some food...
Retail Returns: The Key to Driving Business Growth
Retail returns occur when a customer returns the purchased items to a seller in exchange for a refund, store credit, or a similar product. Returns come with plenty of challenges around logistics, inventory, and predicting volatile sales trends. Yet, in today’s...
Supply Chain Sustainability: The Business Case for Growth and a Competitive Advantage
If the term supply chain sustainability causes you to break out in hives, you’re not alone. With the number of challenges facing the supply chain (shortages, demand volatility, increased transportation costs, inflation), sustainability may not be at the top of your...
Avoiding Stagnation: How Ratioform Stays Agile with Supply Chain Automation
In episode eight of Be Ready for Anything, we hear from Mathias Kempe, the Director of Operations at Ratioform. Mathias takes us through Ratioform’s journey from manual planning to an automated system that could adapt to uncertainty. Listen to find out how Ratioform...
A Tale of Two Industries: Surprising Demand Spikes amid Supply Chain Disruption
Levent Ozsahin, Managing Partner at Advancetics B.V. It’s human nature to miscalculate how best to respond to supply chain disruptions–either over- or under-steering in anticipation of a crisis. Optimists often delay preparing for supply chain disruption for fear that...