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The Case for Real-Time Perpetual Inventory Signals in Manufacturing

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Suddenly, managing inventory is the name of the game for companies trying to manage working capital and maximize profit while keeping customers happy. And that’s where real-time perpetual inventory signals come in. Plus, accurate inventory information is the key to optimal decision-making.

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Your Must-Have Gartner Debrief: The 4 Key Takeaways from Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2023

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Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2023 has wrapped up its 3-day event in Orlando, Florida. More companies are looking to develop and adopt inventory strategies that guarantee high service levels while reducing the overall strain of inventory on working capital. Fortunately, “service-driven planning” is already a proven theory.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

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As organizations look for reducing dependencies on concentrated sources of supply, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and South Asian countries will start providing viable alternatives to the current manufacturing powerhouse countries. In the current capacity constrained environment, such technologies will become a significant competitive advantage.

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Procurement and Supply Chain are Smarter Together – Practical Use Cases

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Building optionality in the supply chain through collaborative sourcing: Supply chain teams can proactively identify choke points within the existing network by leveraging emerging technologies such as digital twins and advanced analytics, and modeling their end-to-end supply chains.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

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As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

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Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source. Last summer a hurricane was coming up through the Gulf and across the Panhandle of Florida.” But in 2021, “all of a sudden there were just completely random shortages that occurred with no warning.”

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Holiday Supply Chains: Are you prepared?

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With our supply chains clogged and retail inventories piling up, we have a situation wherein the huge imbalances between demand and supply at the product mix level can have an adverse impact on product availability for B2B and B2C companies alike, especially as we start heading to the holiday season. Not really. in October 2021. A ratio of 1.5