A retailer’s goal is to sell what it has in stock. It may sound simple, but as in any aspect of business, there are complications to that formula....
Using Data and Analytics to Manage Inventory
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How Data Can Help Make The Supply Chain More Sustainable
When it comes to sustainability in the supply chain, the one consistent thread is that companies are facing increasing pressure to be as...
How Organizations Can Use Analytics for Supply Chain Agility
When the pandemic hit, the companies that found the most success were the ones that could pivot the most quickly. Instead of closing their doors and...
Inventory Analytics: Two Sets of Metrics that Really Matter
Distribution is an intensely competitive business and inventory is key to determining profitability. Applying advanced analytics to inventory...
Logistics Trends That Are Impacting Your Business
The supply chain has seen a lot of turbulence over the last couple of years, with fluctuating shortages and inventory gluts. Logistics companies...
How Data Can Help Supply Chain Disruptions
More than two and a half years after the onset of a global pandemic, the supply chain continues to experience disruption. What started out with the...
The Complete Package: Why Packaging Matters In Supply Chain Analytics
The ordinary person doesn’t think much about the supply chain until something goes wrong. It’s the product that doesn’t reach them that draws the...
Taking Links Out of the Supply Chain to Improve Efficiency
For most industries, the scariest thing about a disruption to “business as usual” is the unpredictability of it. It’s hard to control every aspect...
Supply Chain Presents an Olympian Hurdle
Featured image source: rarrarorro—stock.adobe.com. For organizations that deal with the global supply chain, making an adjustment at this time of...
The Infrastructure Bill’s Impact on the Supply Chain and its Data
When President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law on November 15, a number of industries stood to benefit. Organizations that...
How Supply Chain Snarls are Hitting Close to Home—and Schools
For a while now, the difficulties the supply chain has been facing have been at a higher level than the average American might be paying attention...
Rethinking Logistics and How the Government is Getting Involved
Over the past year-plus, the supply chain has seen a remarkable number of changes. Organizations have had to adjust to various disruptions, and many...
The Data You Need to Look for in the Omnichannel Era
A global semiconductor shortage. Bare supermarket shelves. Shipping containers backed up at ports. The focus on the supply chain over the past...
How Analytics Can Help Make the Food Supply Chain Safer and More Efficient
One byproduct of a disruption is that it forces organizations to look at the way they do business through a lens they might not have used before....
Looking on the Bright Side of Logistics
So much of the news over the past year regarding the supply chain and logistics has been negative. Everything from bare supermarket shelves at the...
How Using Technology To Re-Think The Supply Chain Can Impact Climate Change
Energy, like so many other industries, has experienced a downturn during the pandemic. A report by the International Energy Agency shows energy...
Analytics Provides the Road Map to the Supply Chain’s Uncertain Future
For some companies, 2020 exposed gaps in their supply chain that proved devastating. For others, the events of this year provided them with a chance...
Emerging Technology Guiding the Supply Chain Through the Pandemic
For most of 2020, any news regarding the supply chain has been bad news. Even setting aside the COVID-19 pandemic, other stories that have dominated...
How Analytics Can Help Organizations Prepare for the Supply Chain’s Uncertain Future
About the only thing organizations were certain about when the pandemic hit was that the future of the supply chain was uncertain. Different...
Supply Chain Changes for a Post-Pandemic World
As states and countries re-open in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the hope is that everything will get back to normal. There are certainly...