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Client Retools Inventory Strategy and Reaps Profits Across Categories

Challenge: 105-location hardware store retailer identified $5 million in excess inventory and $2 million in missed sales.

Five Key Challenges to Aligning Capacity and Demand

Aligning capacity with demand isn’t just central to competitive advantage going forward, but in many cases to survival in an emerging post-COVID environment.

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Five Mistakes Companies Make in Managing Supply Chain Risk

The pandemic has inflicted serious damage in the last two and a half years, but there may be a silver lining for companies smart enough to take advantage of the opportunity to develop a more resilient supply chain.

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Podcast | The Unfashionable Supply Chain of the Fashion Industry

If only the fashion industry were as up-to-date with its supply chain as it is with consumer trends in apparel.

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Watch: 4R Introduces Vendor Order Optimization

Mark Garland, president and chief executive officer of 4R Systems, describes the company's Vendor Order Optimization (VOO) product, which optimizes and prioritizes retailer orders from vendors.

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Four Emerging Supply Chain Jobs of the Future

There's been a a dramatic leap in awareness of the importance of supply chain management, one that will come with many opportunities for both employees and employers.

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Watch: How Can Retailers Prepare for the Next Disruption?

Overcoming the challenges of supply chain disruptions means retailers need to go deep into their supply chains, fostering relationships with suppliers and service providers in order to get timely data about potential problems, says Jenny Roman, director of solutions consulting with e2open.

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Solutions to the Supply Chain Bullwhip Effect

One of the curses of the Great Supply Chain Disruption of 2020 was the phenomenon known as “the bullwhip effect.”

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Watch: Integrated Tactical Planning and Optimized Logistics

Reduced inventory and optimized logistics are just a few of the benefits to be realized in implementing Integrated Tactical Planning, says David Goddard, principal at Oliver Wight.

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Building Digital Resilience With Supply Chain 5.0

Some visionaries are predicting a Fifth Industrial Revolution: a reconciliation between humans and machines. This is what Supply Chain 5.0 speculates.

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Watch: How Can Supply Chains Become Sustainable and Transparent?

Sustainability and transparency are different things, but they go hand in hand, says Jamie Barsimantov, chief strategy officer at SupplyShift.

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Repairing Customer Relations After the Supply Chain Crisis

For global supply chains, it’s time to refocus from a survival strategy to one of sustainability and growth.

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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