ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

Pre pandemic we were importing the majority of our inventory from East Asia, in particular China and Japan. These businesses often collect tires of high quality as spare inventory and do not have the infrastructure in place to sell them. Lesson #2: Finding solutions in warehouses and distribution centers. “We

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

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. We explore the concept of holistic inventory strategies focused on the form and function of inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

The healthcare value chain was slow to respond—the majority of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was in Chinese warehouses. To adapt, I recommend that companies form two groups: Operational/Business Continuity Group. The design of the second group is to analyze and reformat the supply chain for economic recovery.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 7, 2020

I think it’s time we started spreading the good news: when you harness demand and inventory planning to slash unnecessary expenses and improve service to customers, you also reduce waste and support sustainability. Having the right inventory in the right location brings a variety of waste-reduction benefits.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

My client attempted to have a supply chain discussion to improve flow, and his executive group just did not get it. I was promoted to run the warehouse, and at the time, I had no experience in distribution, but was asked to run the largest distribution center in the system. A warehouse is the tip of the spear for dysfunction.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2023

ARC Advisory Group, where I work, publishes an analysis of the 25 manufacturers with the most mature digital transformations. This report provides a cross-industry perspective on digital transformation in logistics including digital maturity in inventory management, transportation, fleet maintenance, safety and compliance, and more.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

As a result, demand planning is largely manual, inventory management is a series of manual inputs, and production planning is via spreadsheet. Anne is a lean disciple and sees all inventory as Muda. She lacks the appreciation for the need for inventory as a buffer. I advised John to ask for help to improve inventory health.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

My colleague Clint Reiser has completed a study on warehouse management system (WMS) boutiques. Bricz is a consultancy with a focus on all things warehousing – appropriately headquartered in the logistics hotbed of Atlanta. Open Sky Group is perhaps best known for being Blue Yonder’s largest dedicated WMS partner.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

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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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I informed our readers that ARC Advisory Group/Logistics Viewpoints is conducting a survey to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. I suspect that inventory shortages would have been the highest ranked factor if we conducted our survey a year ago.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2024

Locus Robotics Has Introduced a new Robot with a Heavier Payload Historically, a warehouse management system used slotting and waving functionality to optimize the work in a distribution center. Waving intelligently groups the tasks that need to be completed to reduce associate travel times and improve throughput.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

ARC Advisory Group’s research on the warehouse technology markets ( WMS , Warehouse Automation , and Mobile Warehouse Robotic s) shows that 3PLs are prominent investors in technology. I had the opportunity to speak with Alan Prillaman, SVP of Client Services at Open Sky Group , about the 3PL market.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

What’s the difference between traditional inventory planning and inventory optimization? Optimizing your inventory is a different beast than simply planning your inventory. They face a complex distribution network and optimizing inventory for each location is challenging. Anyone can come up with a plan.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Demo is a Founding Partner and Chief Commercial Officer of IPL Group , a Panama based 3PL that helps companies expand their business into the Latin American market by simplifying order fulfillment and regional distribution. About IPL Group IPL Group helps global firms expand their business into the Latin American market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 12, 2022

Amidst ongoing uncertainty caused by COVID-19 lockdowns in Asia, war in Europe, scarce raw materials and steep inflation, companies are stockpiling inventory as never before in the hopes of mitigating future supply chain shocks. As soon as inventory hits the yard, it gets lost in a shuffle of trailers.

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Logility

APRIL 28, 2020

This revolved around moving to a larger facility as they had outgrown their existing warehouse. The real problem, however, was inventory. The client had a warehouse full of old stock that had been sitting unwanted for years , and there wasn’t enough room to accommodate the inventory that they were selling. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

And finally, after 18 years at ARC Advisory Group, our colleague Clint Reiser is moving on to the next phase of his career. By analyzing two groups of over 500,000 products on Amazon U.S. DHL Group does not operate ships but it uses them to transport containers. Jobs in the warehouse sector were down 4,900 jobs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2023

Shane is Founder and CEO of Square1 Distribution & Logistics , a 3PL Warehouse that focuses on the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors. He is the Founder and CEO of Square1 Distribution & Logistics, a 3PL Warehouse that focuses on the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

How 3PLs Can Gain Visibility and a Competitive Advantage Offering Automated Billing and a Self-Service Interactive Customer Portal It’s hard to imagine a third-party logistics (3PL) business today operating without some form of a warehouse management system ( WMS ) connecting the digital dots. To learn more, visit Open Sky Group today.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2024

Tropicana Brands Group CIO Jeff Lischett also spoke from the main stage. In August of 2021, the Tropicana Brands Group was created when PepsiCo agreed to sell Tropicana, Naked, and other North American juice brands to a private equity firm. Within 7 months of selecting Stellium, they had gone live at their first warehouse site.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

The result is often a peak sales volume for a specific group of items. But what really gets the supply chain and warehouse managers in a sweat are extremely intense sales days or weeks such as the well-known Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Imagine a warehouse operating around the clock, 360 days a year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

When compared to the peer group performance, smaller and regional players outperform larger companies. Intuitive Surgical, L’Oreal, and Sleep Number drove excellence through product and service innovation to outperform their peer groups. The supply chain has two important buffers–inventory and capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

ARC Advisory Group has been covering the Supply Chain Planning ( SCP ) market for 17 years. Supply chain resilience refers to planning for things that could go wrong and then creating inventory buffers or contingency plans. The market has been growing at double-digit rates for several years, even during the pandemic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 25, 2021

The airline lobbying group Airlines for America announced in March that its member carriers will all go green by 2050. For retailers, supply chain sustainability is part of the conversation about inventory. That’s starting to change. More and more large U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2022

Target expects squeezed profits from aggressive plan to get rid of unwanted inventory. Trucking, warehousing, and parcel-delivery companies added a combined 32,900 jobs last month, according to seasonally adjusted preliminary employment figures the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, down from 44,700 jobs added in April.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2021

Chris Lewis, EVP Supply Chain at Ahold Delhaize Retail Business Services, and Mike Khodl, VP, Differentiated Technologies at Dematic , participated in an ARC Advisory Group event discussing this transformation. Ahold Delhaize engaged in strategic network design to properly locate its warehouses to minimize travel to and from these facilities.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Many manufacturers struggle to optimize warehouse productivity and attract skilled employees. put annual warehouse turnover rates at 43 percent. An ERP system that incorporates a cutting-edge warehouse management system (WMS) can help you optimize processes, streamline workflows and decrease errors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

ARC Advisory Group/Logistics Viewpoints is conducting a survey to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. What tactics will be utilized to make warehouses more resilient? and warehouse and fulfillment resilience approaches.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This article is from Descartes Systems Group and looks at how companies can reduce lead times with real-time data. There are many strategic initiatives that can be undertaken to reduce lead time, from contract negotiations, supplier rationalization, vendor managed inventory options, strategic network design and numerous others.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Corporate Knights also ranked the company the most sustainable company in its peer group and the 7 th most sustainable company overall. So, if the model shows that by shutting down some warehouses and moving others, $10 million can be saved, the team will only promise $5 million.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

To accomplish this goal, I ask a cross-functional group to audit the past year. As a group, we drill into root issues. Many times useful data exists in marketing or sales groups, but is not shared with the supply chain team. Build an industry peer group and gain insights on major trends. inventory turns.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In an increasingly unpredictable world environment, practices for planning and forecasting inventory levels that worked in the past need to be reviewed. In the 1990s, APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) arose as a solution for making better decisions about inventory. Inventory optimization.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 14, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides a first installment in a four-part technology market education series where we address the evolving use of Cloud based control layer technology platforms applied to warehousing and customer fulfillment processes. This initial posting provides readers with an overview and primer for this type of technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Inventory Is an Egregious Symptom of Supply Chains Gone Wrong. Today, inventory fire sales abound. Headline news included Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl’s and Macy’s struggling with inventory bloat and offering deep discounts. Wall Street Journal Headline on Retailers Using Containers to Store Excess Inventories. My take away?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 30, 2020

The companies are just not good at managing inventories and orchestrating distribution strategies. In the post-COVID-19 recovery, the recovery requires a perpetual inventory signal update at the speed of business: realt-time allocation and Available-to-Promise capabilities. Recommendation. In the short-term, expect disruption.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I am currently doing research on inventory management. In the research, I ask inventory planners to define resilience. Of the twenty companies interviewed, only one can answer the question, “Do you have a good inventory plan?” No technology in the market measures inventory health. Today, this is not the case.

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