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Robots Take Center Stage at MODEX 2024

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MODEX 2024, held in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 11 to 14, attracted more than 35,000 attendees and featured over 150 educational sessions, keynote speakers, and networking events. Here are some of the examples that caught our attention. They can also work alongside humans or independently, depending on the task and the environment.

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Digital Transformation Journey in Supply Chain Planning

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Maintaining all past and future promotional events in a database. Maintaining outlier events that have influenced demand patterns or supply availability . Modeling the impact of weather events. Automatic identifying and removing outlier events from the historical data. Having accurate stock-out data.

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Retail Supply Chain Management: A Guide

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Retail Supply Chain Costs These costs will of course vary by company and sector and are just an example. This is all the product handling that takes place at the back dock, the stock room, and replenishing stock out on the retail floor. For example, buying in large quantities from suppliers, to get a lower unit cost.

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A Guide to Supply Chain Lead Time 

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For example, the longer it takes to complete specific process cycles in the supply chain, the more resources are required to execute those cycles. The task of maintaining optimal inventory levels, thus avoiding stockouts or overstocking issues, is simpler when you know how long it takes to replenish stock. Why is lead time important?

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Achieving Significant Transportation Savings through Improved Demand Forecasting

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When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. For example, a warehouse might have a big propane tank they use with forklifts that run on propane. That occurs when the forecast is handed off to the replenishment system.

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Fresh Demand Planning: How AI Empowers Retailers

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Another example of data normalization is accounting for lost sales due to stockouts or waste of perishable products due to overstocking of inventory. Similarly, when the weather is warmer than normal, and we stock out of chocolate ice cream, that impacts both future forecasts and the replenishment plan for the following week.

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Record-Breaking Demand for Container Shipping in 2024

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Events like the blockage of the Suez Canal in 2021 have shown the vulnerability of global trade routes, pushing companies to seek more reliable shipping options. Retailers are replenishing inventories, leading to higher volumes of imports and exports. The Port of Long Beach, for example, is undergoing a $1.5