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Spare Parts to Profits: Strategic Inventory Mastery

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In the competitive industrial landscape, efficient spare parts inventory management is crucial to maintaining seamless operations and driving profitability. Spare parts supply chains, however, come with their own set of complexities, requiring targeted strategies and specialized tools to meet these unique demands effectively.

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The Counterintuitive Truth About Inventory Optimization

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Equally perplexing is inventory optimization. Many assume that increasing inventory is necessary to improve service levels. But businesses that get inventory optimization right can boost service levels by 3-5% while reducing overall inventory by 15-30%. Doesnt reducing inventory hurt service levels? Wait, what?

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

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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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Amazon and the Shift to AI-Driven Supply Chain Planning

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They integrate AI into demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and logistics operations to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. Excess inventory, stockouts, and increased transportation expenses are common consequences of outdated planning methods. Amazon is a leader in AI-driven supply chain management.

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How Does Your Inventory Optimization Process Compare to Peers?

Are You Betting on the Right Tools to Succeed in 2021? Take it now to see how your inventory optimization process scores and benchmark it against peers. The 15-question assessment takes only 5 minutes to complete. Responses are aggregated and kept anonymous.

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A Thing of Beauty: How Belcorp Mastered Its Supply Chain Complexity with Advanced Multi-echelon Inventory Optimization and Planning Digital Solution

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This article will examine the challenges Belcorp faced with managing its extensive product range and complex supply chain and how our solution set, which includes Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+), Demand Planning, and the Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) model, transformed their operations. It played out as follows.

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Supplier Onboarding is Core to a Digital Supply Chain Transformation

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The tool Molex used to drive adherence to the new process was, without a doubt, a major contributor to the success of this program. The company uses a process monitoring tool called Celonis. With the tool, visibility is gained when the POs are sent out, and again when the confirmations come back in. You took 30 days.

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Just In: Inventory Optimization Research

How are organizations performing on inventory optimization? Inventory: asset or liability? Although nobody could have predicted the degree of disruption most companies experienced last year, the pandemic did expose the many challenges organizations face when it comes to inventory. How can new technologies help your team improve?

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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.