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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change.

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The supply chain tips that made Moose Toys a “Walmart Supplier of the Year”

Alloy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Headline: The supply chain tips that made Moose Toys Walmart’s Supplier of the Year. It’s no accident that Moose Toys was awarded Walmart Toy Supplier of the Year at the retailer’s annual supply chain conference earlier this year. The key is that there is a lot of flexibility within Walmart’s supply chain.

Alloy

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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change.

Supply Chain Design Software

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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change.

Supply Chain Design Software

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Better Direct Import Replenishment Planning for Consumer Goods Brands

Alloy

JUNE 9, 2022

Since intermediaries are eliminated, so are many costs associated with complex supply chains. Products are stored in a domestic warehouse before being shipped on to the retailer’s DC. Other metrics and scorecards which help brands run successful businesses are also hard to calculate. The Challenges of Direct Import.

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Inventory and forecast data from retailers: After your product ships (Part 2)

Alloy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Part 1 of this series highlighted four of the most important retailer data points that suppliers need to maintain an efficient supply chain and maximize sales opportunities: Unit Sales (Net), Dollar Sales (Net), Price, and Retailer COGS. Weeks of Supply. For a more detailed explanation, check out Part 1 here.

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After your product ships (Part 1): Data retailers share and why it’s important

Alloy

AUGUST 20, 2019

monitoring what happens to product after it leaves your warehouse is integral to maintaining an efficient supply chain and maximizing sales opportunities. But out of that weekly or daily data deluge, what are the crucial metrics? Subscribe to the Alloy blog to get automatically notified when it’s available!

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An Interview with Michael Hutzli, Engineering

Alloy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Michael Hutzli is an engineering team lead in Alloy’s Vancouver office. Before joining Alloy a bit over three years ago, he worked as a software engineer at Addepar in Mountain View and at AdNovum in Zurich, Switzerland. Why did you join Alloy? There were a few different factors that came together in my decision to join Alloy.

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Look past the fines to improve OTIF performance

Alloy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our research with supply chain professionals at consumer goods companies found that 55% consider On Time and In Full (OTIF) orders, or so called “perfect orders,” one of their top three KPIs. That’s the highest percentage out of all metrics we asked about, including On Shelf Availability (37%) and forecast accuracy (34%).

Alloy

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Parsing McLane’s inventory and order data for suppliers

Alloy

MARCH 18, 2021

McLane Company is an important customer for many food and beverage brands, who use its supply chain services to get their products to grocery, drug and convenience stores. At Alloy, we’ve worked with several suppliers who rely on McLane to distribute its everyday products to key retailers. Division inventories and movements.

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Amazon Retail Analytics Basic vs. Premium: What’s the value?

Alloy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Today we start with looking at brands selling through Amazon Vendor Central, Amazon’s first-party vendor platform , where you’re selling items in bulk to Amazon and transferring product ownership to them (like you would any other retailer), so the product is noted as “Ships from and sold by Amazon.”

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Your Ultimate Guide to Walmart Luminate

Alloy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Channel Performance in Walmart Luminate gives you a true omni-channel view of sales, whether the purchase is in-store, delivered, shipped to store, picked up, or shipped directly to the customer. Commerce has changed since Retail Link was released, one of the major changes being omnichannel fulfillment. Not anymore.

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Understanding the Challenges Facing Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Firms

USC Consulting Group

AUGUST 13, 2019

That said, these experts also warned that retaliatory duties from other countries could hurt Boeing’s sales, as the company was known for shipping around 70% of its finished planes overseas, including 20% to China. These outcomes ultimately materialized, ushering in a new, more insecure aerospace and defense sales landscape.

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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

The supply chain tips that made Moose Toys a “Walmart Supplier of the Year”

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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Better Direct Import Replenishment Planning for Consumer Goods Brands

Inventory and forecast data from retailers: After your product ships (Part 2)

After your product ships (Part 1): Data retailers share and why it’s important

An Interview with Michael Hutzli, Engineering

Look past the fines to improve OTIF performance

Parsing McLane’s inventory and order data for suppliers

Amazon Retail Analytics Basic vs. Premium: What’s the value?

Your Ultimate Guide to Walmart Luminate

Understanding the Challenges Facing Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Firms

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