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How Retailers and CPG companies are benefiting from next-gen Control Tower and S&OE

o9 Solutions

In particular, the landscape is being challenged with a number of fundamental drivers: The changing consumer preferences with the move towards fresh, natural/organic/healthy, convenience foods and locally sourced products but at the same time looking for value. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

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Building the Business to Consumer Superstar: Getting to the Promised Land with Supply Chain Control Towers and S&OE

o9 Solutions

In particular, the landscape is being challenged with a number of fundamental drivers: The changing consumer preferences with the move towards fresh, natural/organic/healthy, convenience foods and locally sourced products but at the same time looking for value. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

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3 Ways a Poorly Managed Inventory Can Ruin a Business

RFgen

Not having enough in-stock can result in delayed shipments and lost sales, and too much stock can increase storage costs as well as the chances that product deterioration occurs, according to the Houston Chronicle. The company chalked this up to poor inventory management because employees used Microsoft Excel.

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3 Ways a Poorly Managed Inventory Can Ruin a Business

RFgen

Not having enough in-stock can result in delayed shipments and lost sales, and too much stock can increase storage costs as well as the chances that product deterioration occurs, according to the Houston Chronicle. The company chalked this up to poor inventory management because employees used Microsoft Excel.

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Enabling Innovation Groups To Sell More Effectively to Operations Leaders

ThroughPut

We do it throughout entire industries, enabling leaders to smooth-out their Supply Chains, lean-out their Logistics, optimize their Operations, and maximize their Manufacturing throughput, all with their existing teams and often disaggregated data sources.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

RFID tags and robotic warehouse systems generate and transmit data that, when combined with other data sources, allow companies to optimize the supply chain and make better predictions and forecasts to improve efficiency and boost the bottom line. They can also be used to track the provenance of adulterated products to identify the source.

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Courage to Paint Outside the Lines

Supply Chain Shaman

Recently, I presented at the Informs Analytics Conference in Houston and challenged companies to “ think out of the box” and define outside-in processes in Supply Chain Planning. As a recent college graduate, he was chartered with running manufacturing discrete event simulation for an automotive company. He was frustrated.