Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

Much of the benefit obtained from these AGVs in from inventory accuracy achieved through accurate inventory location ID and precise alignment for pallet load movements. Being a native Bostonian, I have watched many of the videos highlighting Boston Dynamics robots in the form of a human or dog, climbing stairs, opening doors, etc.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 6, 2014

Up until this past year, my greatest “ah-ha” moment was watching my Boston neighbor walk away with my Arians Platinum 20-SHO snow blower. But, in Boston, we had this dirty little secret. But, in Boston, we had this dirty little secret. In Boston, we had an “ATTIC”. In San Diego, there’s no attics, no basements.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 13, 2019

BOSTON (May 13, 2019) – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, announced today that David Barton has joined ToolsGroup as the new general manager of North America. Barton will work from ToolsGroup’s Boston headquarters. I am delighted to welcome David to the ToolsGroup team,” said ToolsGroup CEO Joseph Shamir.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

I watched a TED Talk video by Philip Evans, from Boston Consulting Group and shuddered to think that all our traditional fulfillment and inventory models can be drastically transformed by the “consumer”. Sure, we’re concerned, and in some cases stocking more inventory at local distribution centers. It’s the consumer.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 15, 2024

BOSTON & LONDON — January 15, 2024 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced the launch of their In-Season Inventory Optimization Solution, an integrated suite of tools in the greater JustEnough retail planning and execution suite.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 21, 2020

ToolsGroup supply chain planning software allows Allopneus.com to improve inventory quality while reducing storage space at its national distribution center by almost 20%. Inventory management is the key. Inventory management is the key to quality of service and competitiveness,” emphasises Coltat. “To NEWS RELEASE.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 28, 2023

BOSTON – August 3, 2023 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, is proud to announce it has been named among ten Notable Vendors included in Gartner’s Midmarket Context: Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions (July 2023).

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 16, 2019

BOSTON (December 13, 2019) ToolsGroup, a leader a global leader in supply chain planning software, has been named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Inventory Optimization 2019 Vendor Assessment. PRESS RELEASE. About ToolsGroup.

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Logility

MARCH 2, 2011

Inventory optimization (IO) has become an increasingly important topic of late as companies try to balance inventory (amount, location, etc.) associate professor of operations management, Boston University, on the role of a company’s inventory in developing a sustainable competitive advantage.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to ToolsGroup Supply Chain Forecast | Inventory to improve forecast accuracy and customer service levels, while reducing investment in stock. The tool is designed to help businesses grow by moving beyond spreadsheet-based forecasting and trial-and-error inventory management.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Supply Chain Forecast | Inventory to improve forecast accuracy and customer service levels, while reducing investment in stock. The tool is designed to help businesses grow by moving beyond spreadsheet-based forecasting and trial-and-error inventory management. Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to ToolsGroup ?Supply

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fabrizio Fantini, Founder and CEO of Evo commented, “Together with ToolsGroup, we can shape the vision for the supply chain of the future – one that powers smarter supply chain decisions for human managers through optimal price and inventory calculations.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 20, 2023

By implementing ToolsGroup Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+) , Gaviota has achieved the supply chain trifecta – lower inventory, higher service levels, and improved operational performance. Read Gaviota’s full story and discover the secrets behind ToolsGroup’s unique probabilistic forecasting and inventory management solutions here.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

BOSTON (September 23, 2022) ToolsGroup , a global leader in AI-driven retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Inventory Optimization 2022 Vendor Assessment. . About ToolsGroup.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 16, 2023

In a world of too little, too late, real-time data provides the actionable insights companies need to maximize inventory performance and business profitability. The highly scalable platform processes and analyzes data quickly and applies configuration to provide actionable views of inventory.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Marc is the Co-founder and CEO of Fishtail, a Boston based fintech company that empowers freight forwarders to finance the movement and procurement of goods – for small and medium businesses (SMBs) around the world. Marc Held and Joe Lynch discuss the Fishtail story. About Marc Held. Key Takeaways: The Fishtail Story.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

BOSTON (Nov 8, 2021) – ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced its acquisition of Mi9 Retail’s Demand Management business. ToolsGroup is how organizations improve product availability while right-sizing inventory, no matter how complex their supply chain is or how much demand changes.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Improving inventory position can help retailers secure consumer loyalty and capture impulse spending. Across other retail sectors, customers have increased their trust in inventory availability from 1-7%. In July 2022, IHL and ToolsGroup surveyed U.S. consumer trust in retailers over the last two years as a result of out-of-stocks.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 11, 2019

MANN+HUMMEL to Present How It Partnered with ToolsGroup to Increase Fill Rate and Cut Inventory. BOSTON, June 11, 2019 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, today shared details of its participation in the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, taking place June 17-19 in Barcelona. On June 19 at 2:30 p.m.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Maybe try Boston next? The CNBC article states, “ As delivery times and consumer demand rose this year, retailers responded by ordering inventory earlier than usual. When in-transit shipping time began to improve quickly, Nike CFO Matthew Friend said, it led to swelling inventories.” I gotta admit, I’m intrigued.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 13, 2023

A significant addition to our Inventory Hub® product, Dynamic Fulfillment leverages advanced optimization logic to determine what to ship, from where, in real-time, to reduce shipping costs, improve margins, and satisfy empowered customers. As an example, let’s say you’re trying to fulfill a pallet order of heavy items in Boston, MA.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 31, 2024

The frontier of AI strengths Recognizing this challenge, last fall leading academics from Harvard Business School, Wharton, MIT and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) published an illuminating paper, which they artfully named “ Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier.” Lincoln understood the need to make people powerful.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As a Boston fan, Tom Brady forever changed my sports landscape. The Boston sports landscape shifted after that first Super Bowl and became the city of champions, with 12 total championships (6 by the Patriots, 4 by the Red Sox, and 1 each by the Celtics and Bruins). This time, however, he says it is for good.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Introduction: Why Inventory Balancing? Inventory balancing (also called inventory rebalancing), the periodic transfer of inventory from supply chain locations with too much inventory to locations with too little, is an underutilized supply chain tactic. In such cases, inventory balancing is often the best option.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Inventory Optimization (IO) is a loosely used term in the industry. You’ll see it used to describe tactical inventory management, warehouse operations and strategic network assessments as well as used to describe single stage as well as multi-echelon environments. Karin: What is Inventory Optimization?

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 19, 2022

The pandemic and resulting congestion in the supply chain have retailers reconsidering their traditional approach to sourcing and inventory management, says Larry Parker, department chair of transportation and logistics management, supply chain management, reverse logistics and government contracting at the Dr. Wallace E.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 11, 2022

ToolsGroup is how organizations improve product availability while right-sizing inventory, no matter how complex their supply chain is or how much demand changes. Leaders surveyed in third annual ToolsGroup and CSCMP report are “extremely concerned” about external supply chain threats but lack people to make transformation succeed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

Instead, what I observed when I looked at the data, was that most companies that I had worked with (in my role as an industry analyst, I had worked with over 300) were going backwards on margin and inventory turns. Resiliency is the pattern at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. “Ugh,” I said.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

CPG companies that utilize an autonomous supply chain technology see a reduction in their inventory and cost and an increase in revenue. Currently, she is COO and Head of Customer Success at Solvoyo, a leading supply chain planning and analytics SaaS company based in Boston.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

They were born from well-intentioned, bright professors from great schools – Boston College, Carnegie Mellon, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT )– in operations research. It was called multi-enterprise inventory optimization. Over the course of the decade, the inventory optimization market stalled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

They came to Boston to tell us the story of Llamasoft. It could no longer be just about inventory levels. This analysis needed to be completed monthly and fed to newer forms of inventory optimization technologies. As I listened, I began to reflect. Reflections. I remember the first time that I met the founders, Don and Toby.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 15, 2024

BOSTON – January 15, 2023 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, is proud to be recognized as a Leader in five separate G2 Winter 2024 reports. The software company earns Leadership recognition in supply chain planning and demand planning across regions.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Leaders from Bose, Boston Scientific and ON Semiconductor shared key lessons from their supply chain transformations, including what led them to consider change. Purchasers don’t have visibility into existing inventory. Example : “Finance has these benchmarks on cash flow and inventory.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

BOSTON (Sept 5, 2019) – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, shared details of its participation with Optimas Solutions, a leading global industrial distributor and service provider, in the North American Supply Chain Summit (NASCES19), taking place September 10-11 in Chicago. . “One and demand uncertainty.

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Logility

AUGUST 15, 2012

Interest in inventory optimization continues to increase as companies seek a more efficient way to reduce excess inventory while maintaining or improving customer service levels. Multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) is also playing a larger role in the sales and operations planning process (S&OP).

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 16, 2016

A Boston Scientific medical device is used somewhere in the world every two seconds, but the company is much more than a medical device manufacturer. The firm’s lean engineers and supply chain engineers help hospitals not only with inventory management and logistics but also with process improvements in catheterisation labs, for example.

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