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Inventory Management Excellence: Some Companies to Learn From

Logistics Bureau

The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises. One factor that stands out to me as a highlight of their IM strategy is their seemingly chaotic approach to warehouse layout. At that point, each SKU will be taken to any convenient storage location in the warehouse.

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The Evolving Warehouse: Prepare Your Warehouse for Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

Construction of manufacturing plants and new warehouse sites were also postponed or canceled entirely due to market uncertainty. According to the CBRE Global E-commerce Outlook 2021 report , e-commerce growth will require another 330 million square feet of warehouse space in the United States by 2025.

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Top Supply Chain Challenges for CPG companies in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Here we have compiled a list of the top six challenges that CPG companies face in the post-pandemic market. The classical approach involves functional silos, sequential decisions, and Excel and people to render a plan executable. The planning process should be automated, repeatable, and not dependent on Excel-based manipulation.

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments.

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Dancing in the Ring of Fire

Supply Chain Shaman

Each executive has a different perspective on the definition of supply chain excellence, but they are never discussed and aligned. His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. What Is The Ring of Fire?

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What is a Purchase Order System? [Complete Guide]

Unleashed

Purchase order (PO) systems are software tools that help you manage the end-to-end purchase order process. They streamline procurement workflows by automating key tasks such as purchase order creation, approval, distribution, and tracking. What is a purchase order system? How do purchase order systems work?

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. The evolution of S&OP to IBP increased process latency in 70% of companies. Let me explain.