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Distributor Achieves 50 Inventory Turns with Anseris Consulting

Challenge: A large Midwest C-store distributor was tasked with utilizing an outdated system to manage their inventory and short shelf products resulting in low user productivity and less than desirable customer service levels. With over 60% of the inventory investment in short shelf life products, the management of obsolete product was ever increasing as the business grew.

SAP Debuts Customer Business Planning Application

SAP SE has developed the SAP Customer Business Planning application.

Cutting the Cord: How Wireless Technology Is Transforming Logistics and the Supply Chain

It may be a gradual evolution, but more and more companies are realizing the benefits of adapting cutting-edge wireless technology to enable supply-chain efficiency, visibility, compliance and predictive analytics.

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Automakers Are Viewing Safety Issues in the Rearview Mirror

Automotive manufacturers have all the tools they need to detect safety issues in the early stages of vehicle production. The problem is, they're not making use of them.

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Advanced Demand Planning Platform Improves Eyewear Manufacturer's Supply Chain Visibility

Challenge: Specializing in optical products, a global manufacturer of glasses across approximately 16 production plants in Asia and a dozen distribution centers in Europe and America faced the need to ensure effective management of its supply chain.

Industrial Manufacturer Reduces Inventory with Demand Planning in the Cloud

Challenge: An accurate forecast is essential for supply chain optimization, and can ultimately lead to increased sales. Using spreadsheets can limit visibility and collaboration, needed to achieve consensus decisions that enable balancing supply and demand, while reducing inventory costs.

Supply Chain Resilience: Only the Paranoid Survive

It's a dangerous world out there for global supply chains.

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Covisint Teams With FreightVerify for In-Transit Inventory Tracking

Covisint Corp. has joined with FreightVerify to offer an initiative for tracking in-transit inventory.

Tradeshift Offers Corporate Buying Platform; Partners With Selectica

Tradeshift has developed Tradeshift Buy, an open, collaborative platform for corporate buying.

Dow Chemical's Formula for Adapting to Ever-Changing Markets

A conversation with Noelle Walsh, corporate vice president of supply chain with The Dow Chemical Co.

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China-Based Automotive Logistics Company Creates a Modern Automobile Logistics Park

Challenge: In order to create a unified automobile supply chain logistics platform, this Chinese company needed to reduce uncertainty of the coordination process through information sharing and integration.

UK-Based Food & Beverage Company Optimizes Its Inventory Planning

Challenge: The UK-based business lacked a single, global view of demand, the absence of which led to production, sourcing, and inventory planning challenges throughout the entire supply chain.

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