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The Costly Oversight: Why Your Inventory Rebalancing Strategy Is Failing You

ToolsGroup

Are you making the fatal mistake of underestimating the importance of inventory rebalancing? Many retailers treat inventory management as a mundane task rather than a strategic lever for success. It’s about strategically adjusting your inventory levels across locations and products in response to real-time customer demand.

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Inventory Strategies: Evaluating Constant Disruptions

Logility

Inventory strategies begin with an efficient network design to effectively balance your ability to accurately predict customer demand and work with suppliers to adjust orders in real time. Routine firefighting of inventory issues is a symptom of inventory strategies treated as a once-a-year exercise.

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Strategy. Strategy. Wherefore Art Thou Strategy?

Supply Chain Shaman

In contrast, those who outperformed were better at strategy and aligned with outcomes. Instead, the starting point, as shown in Figure 1, should start with a clear understanding of business strategy. The operating strategy–a major part of the supply chain strategy–flows from the business strategy.

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Elevating Inventory Management with Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization

Logility

This urges a shift from the unsustainable practice of buffering against uncertainty with high inventory levels. Enter Inventory Optimization (IO) as a vital strategy to combat supply chain stress. Yet, recent research suggests a more advanced approach, Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO), surpasses traditional methods.

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How to Tackle Today's Most Complex Inventory Challenges

Speaker: Andrew Kurpiel - AmerCareRoyal | Bill Benton - GAINS | Paul Benhamou - Benco Dental

By targeting inventory investments and regulating service expectations, their inventory optimization activities have improved performance. Join three supply chain experts as they share their best practices and effective strategies for facing today’s most complex inventory challenges.

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Order Visibility Is Critical Amid Low Inventories

Logistics Viewpoints

But shippers looking to avoid disruptions and ensure that tight inventory levels don’t lead to missed sales opportunities pulled their orders forward. As companies look ahead to the next three to six months, they’re weighing costs, risks, and demand as they plan and adapt their inventory strategies.

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Supply Chain AI Strategy: Navigating Apparel Industry Complexities

Logility

Navigating the $5 trillion North American apparel market requires precision, especially when dealing with the intricate complexities of forecasting and inventory management. This approach enhances forecast accuracy and aligns company strategies more closely with real-time market conditions.

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Key Questions for a Successful Distribution Network

Speaker: Irina Rosca, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Helix

If we're going to offer the speed of shipping and variety of inventory that today's customers have come to expect, there are a lot of different questions that need to be asked. This webinar will cover: Strategies for making high-level decisions about your network design and inventory distribution.

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A Supply Chain Leader’s Guide to Managing Disruption With Modern Analytics

But, as leaders know, adapting to change is rarely a simple task and requires a fresh look at existing processes in planning and sourcing, inventory management, warehousing & distribution, and more. Key topics covered: Eliminating friction points and coping with the continual disruptions through a modern data strategy approach.

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Digital Transformation: Why You Can’t Afford to Wait

All technology strategies must address short-term concerns, but should also empower companies to build agility, resiliency, and better sensing so they can respond more quickly today, and even preempt disruptions tomorrow. This playbook offers manufacturers a realistic and viable guide to balancing immediate needs with future-focused strategy.

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The Keys to Business Continuity Planning

Speaker: Ron Spiteri, Director of TXM Lean Solutions

Ways to find the right balance between inventory turns and stock availability. How to develop Prevention, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery strategies. In this webinar, you will learn: What a Supply Chain Business Continuity Plan is. The types of risks and how to assess them. Keys to creating a risk assessment and reduction matrix.

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The 2023 Supply Chain Crystal Ball: Challenges and Solutions

Speaker: Olivia Montgomery, Associate Principal Supply Chain Analyst

Forecasting techniques to manage inventory. Procurement strategies in response to network delays and bottlenecks. In this webinar, you’ll gain actionable insights from Olivia Montgomery as she walks us through Capterra’s extensive research on how businesses - notably SMBs - are addressing supply chain challenges in 2023.

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Elevate Your Supply Chain Resilience With Scenario Planning

Speaker: Robert Olszak- Vice President, Global Supply Chain Optimization, RGP

To better prepare for the next generation of supply chain management, organizations are adopting industry-leading inventory and network optimization tools to establish sophisticated and mature supply chain digital ecosystems.