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How to Handle Physical Inventory in a Digital World

Ship Monk

Yet supply chain lead times, inventory storage, order fulfillment, tracking, and shipping are often the trickiest challenges for online businesses to master. Moving merchandise means contending with hurricanes, pandemics, geopolitical events, unexpected demand, human errors, labor shortages — and the list goes on. Why is that?

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Mastering Disruption: A Smarter, More Connected Approach

Logistics Viewpoints

They can ingest large volumes of functional data and leverage advanced intelligence to recognize broad trends and specific disruptive events. Teams are constrained by their physical resources, like trucks, inventory, and labor capacities, as they seek to resolve a disruption. billion to $23.07

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Sales Literature Management: 5 Reports to ‘Spring Clean’ Your Inventory

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

For most of us, that means working from home, canceling events like trade shows, and foregoing most in-person contact. As we all continue to adjust to the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, we’re finding new ways to work and connect with each other.

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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions.

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Walmart and the New Supply Chain Reality: AI, Automation, and Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

Just-in-time (JIT) inventory models, lean supplier networks, and offshore manufacturing reduced expenses but left companies exposed to disruptions. The COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing geopolitical shifts demonstrated the risks of relying on single-source suppliers and minimal inventory buffers. Resilience is now taking precedence.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Is supply chain inventory the problem?

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ERP for Automotive Distributors

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The data can be used to identify inefficiencies in the supply chain, improve inventory management, and streamline operations. As recent events have shown, the automotive industry is vulnerable to supply chain disruptions, such as shortages of components or delays in delivery.

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