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Supply Chain Segmentation: A Smarter Strategy for Satisfying Customers and Increasing Profits

ThroughPut

As you might expect, it would lead to numerous inefficiencies, jeopardize profits, and in a worst-case scenario, could even result in the business shutting down due to a completely collapsed supply chain. The need for supply chain segmentation in Sara’s situation is clear, but what about your business?

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A Better Approach to Supply Chain Segmentation?

ToolsGroup

Most companies segment their supply chain by breaking it down according to operational and logistical metrics. But there is another way to segment supply chains that begins with the customer. In a blog earlier this year entitled What's wrong with ABC inventory classification?

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Supply Chain Segmentation – the Secret to Omnichannel Success

RFgen

Warehouse segmentation helps track diverse inventory. Many organizations respond to new obstacles by segmenting their supply chain. If a business doesn’t provide inventory for Internet sales channels it could lose customers to digital competitors. An expanding consumer audience will have diverse needs.

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Supply Chain Segmentation – the Secret to Omnichannel Success

RFgen

Warehouse segmentation helps track diverse inventory. Many organizations respond to new obstacles by segmenting their supply chain. If a business doesn’t provide inventory for Internet sales channels it could lose customers to digital competitors. An expanding consumer audience will have diverse needs.

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Customer Segmentation: A Smarter Supply Chain Strategy to Streamline Operations & Boost Profits

ThroughPut

You’ll learn: What customer segmentation in supply chain is How to develop a customer demand segmentation strategy Examples of successful customer demand segmentation Insights into how ThroughPut AI can help you with customer segmentation What is Customer Segmentation?

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

As I study research methods, and the market, I realize the lies I’ve spun for prior employers (Gartner and AMR Research) are untrue: The AMR Research Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics. This research, released in 2005, gives a compelling view of a metrics hierarchy. Bimodal Supply Chains Are a Viable Strategy.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. Why do we spend four months doing this?