Logility

The first step toward successful inventory optimization is getting your internal conversation on the right track by assessing your current situation, understanding the potential benefits, and setting your expectations with confidence.

Supply Chain 2020 will continue collapsing cycles, challenging Supply Chain professionals and taking advantage of exponential technology shifts.

Based on stories in the business media over the last week or so, I expect four specific trends to dictate supply chain, logistics, and materials handling development in 2016.

Omnichannel strategy is not just for retailers, if you are a manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler you need to take charge of your omnichannel strategy.

With adoption levels still low, three top industry analysts outline their reasons why every shipper should be integrating a tms, transportation management system, into their overall supply chain management efforts.

The Red Wing Shoe Company details the steps it took to improve S&OP processes, slash its S&OP planning efforts by 50 percent, and align manufacturing with sales - all while growing its business.

The partnership with Flex advances this work by bringing new capabilities and expertise outside of the existing footwear industry to create future systems for making product and to catalyze innovation across NIKE’s global supply chain.

Collaboration: A recursive process where two or more organizations work together to realize common goals by sharing knowledge and learning, and by building consensus.

This paper details S&OP best practices to achieve game-changing S&OP benefits with repeatable S&OP process that drives outstanding results when implemented through an easy-to-use technology platform.

Transportation management: Improving delivery performance, increasing efficiency, and reducing freight costs to drive tangible bottom-line benefits.

The Minneapolis retail giant once downplayed its problems keeping stores stocked with merchandise, but Target CEO Brian Cornell now says the empty shelves are a serious problem that must be solved.

A mature S&OP process aligns the supply chain with corporate strategy to become the glue that binds performance end-to-end across the supply chain.

Warehousing, transportation, and labor aren't going away, you still have to move goods.

Inventory optimization is often intimidating and frustrating - once the most common barriers are removed, however, optimized inventory across the supply chain is easier to achieve than it looks.

This paper provides a quick tour of the steps companies traverse as they progress up the inventory optimization maturity curve to greater inventory savings, working capital availability, and service level excellence.