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Inventory Management Top Stories

Microsoft Unveils New AI Innovations For Warehouses
Microsoft hopes its new AI innovations are the answer to a new set of challenges facing manufacturers.
Spotlight Startup: Cart.com is Reimagining Logistics
Starting a company is hard work. We sat down with Cart.com co-founder Remingtom Tonar to discuss his company's early success, growing pains, and more.
Can Artificial Intelligence Save the Retail Industry?
A new report highlights how retailers are losing money due to in-store inefficiencies, and how many are leaning on AI to get back on track.
Manufacturing Finally Grows After 16 Straight Months of Decline
March was a good month for manufacturing, which snapped 16 straight months of decline and showed positive signs of growth and economic recovery.

Inventory Management Resources

The Shipper’s Handbook to Managing Expectations This Holiday Season
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Multi-Party Orchestration Platform
In this brochure, you'll find a guide to MPO's unified cloud platform for multi-party orchestration, including its rich...


Inventory Management News

The Art of Consistent Perfect Order Delivery
This white paper defines what a perfect order is and details the technology that helps leaders achieve smart order fulfillment through optimized supply chain orchestration.

Inventory Optimization Why It Matters for Your Supply Chain
When done correctly, inventory optimization is powered by some of the latest emerging technologies, including machine learning, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing, and by using proven inventory management processes, supply chain design and planning helps with inventory optimization.

Rethinking Inventory to Match Business Models and Needs
As changing consumer behaviors and expectations, shorter product lifecycles, and supply chain disruptions become more frequent and persistent, businesses should closely examine their approach to inventory and regularly evaluate whether it matches their business model and current needs.

Never Ask “Who Owns The Inventory?” Again - It’s The Wrong Question to Ask
Dig deep enough, and it will become evident that inventory is a symptom of other business issues, in reality, ownership of inventory should reside with the entity that owns the “root cause” of inventory.

Amazon Order Management Explained plus 9 Best Solutions
The extensive size and popularity of Amazon’s marketplace pose unique challenges for its many merchants, from attracting customers and securing conversions, to fulfilling orders and managing your bottom line.

Yard Digitization & Better Inventory Management through Yard Management System Adoption
Why is there such a stark difference between those who see value in a yard management system and those who have taken the plunge to adopt one?

How to Change Your Supply Chain Inventory Planning Process
Change is hard for any organization, but Princess Auto, a nearly 90-year-old Canadian hard goods retailer, changed its collective thinking and brought a new level of efficiency to its inventory planning and how product flows to its customers.

Who Owns Inventory?
Who owns inventory? stop the blame game, it’s a common question, but the wrong question to ask, this white paper explains why and what you should be asking.

4 Ways Analytics can Augment Your Inventory Planning
While inventory management is complex, gathering, prepping, blending, analyzing, and auditing your data shouldn’t be.

How Does IKEA’s Inventory Management Supply Chain Strategy Really Work?
Each IKEA store is huge and holds more than 9,500 products! How in the world does IKEA offer so much at such a low price while always being able to keep items in stock?

3 Ways to Optimize Inventory with Artificial Intelligence
ConverSight.ai’s adaptive analytics is built to generate insights from data sets of all shapes and sizes, and with ATHENA smart assistant analyzes demand and inventory at all levels to provide suggestions and recommendations including analysis that impact to your business.

Making the Case for FedEx Critical Inventory Logistics
By working with FedEx Critical Inventory Logistics, companies can streamline and drive costs out of their aftermarket service supply chains, consistently meet customer service level agreements, and grow their bottom-line revenues.

Keeping Your Inventory Moving During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In these uncertain times, companies are turning to technology to help them comply with social distancing rules and to keep their workers and drivers safe in any conditions.

Using Inventory Accuracy and Yard Automation to Fight the COVID-19 Chaos
In an uncertain world where supply chain disruption is becoming a certainty, here’s how good inventory management enabled by automation can help companies gain the supply chain visibility they need to keep the wheels turning.

Amazon Temporarily Suspends Many Inbound Shipments for FBA Sellers
Amazon says it will be temporarily prioritizing products coming into their fulfillment centers during the coronavirus crisis with independent merchants unable to ship products other than medical supplies and household items until April 5, 2020.

Multi-Echelon Supply Chain Inventory Optimization
This white paper digs deeper into the concept of multi-echelon inventory optimization and brings out a mathematical perspective to solving the real-world challenges in inventory optimization.

2020 Material Handling Industry Innovation Awards
MHI announced four finalists that were chosen as the most innovative products in each category – Best New Innovation, Best Innovation of an Existing Product, and Best IT Innovation based on the concept, value, and impact.

Elemica Case Study | Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
In this case study, we detail how Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has experienced considerable cost savings by reducing corrective action requests and increasing supplier accountability and ensured material validations, tracked ongoing quality audits and maintained regulatory compliance.

Introducing Ware: Automating Warehouse Inventory Tracking with Drone Technology
At Ware, we are building technology to help warehouses increase the efficiency of their operations so they can keep up with - and even dictate - the pace at which modern supply chains are evolving.

Warehouse Drones: Real-Time Inventory Tracking by Air
Aerial robots are enabling organizations to use employees more efficiently and improve inventory accuracy in a world where consumers want everything now.


Featured Companies

Spinnaker SCA
Spinnaker SCA is a leading supply chain services firm providing End-to-End Supply Chain Strategy, Planning, and Execution Consulting services, based in Boulder, CO. Founded in 2021 through the joining of two top supply chain consulting firms, SCApath LLC and Spinnaker Supply…
Dsco
Headquartered in Lehi, Utah, Dsco is an integration platform that creates networked supply chains—simplifying and standardizing the way retailers and suppliers connect and exchange inventory, order, and catalog data.  As they pursue strategies such as drop shipping to…
PINC
Hundreds of the largest organizations in the world rely on Kaleris software solutions to gain real-time visibility into transportation and yard operations, manage and maintain transportation assets, and automate and optimize inventory orchestration throughout the supply chain.
Oracle Cloud
The Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite of integrated applications for Sales, Service, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, plus Highly Automated and Secure Generation 2 Infrastructure featuring the Oracle Autonomous Database.
Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes is a global technology company offering innovative products and solutions that enable commerce in the areas of customer information management, location intelligence, customer engagement, shipping and mailing, and global ecommerce. More than 1.5 million clients in approximately 100 countries around…
Tradeshift
Tradeshift brings all companies, big and small, together to transact, connect and collaborate with each other. For suppliers, we deliver free electronic invoicing, faster payments and predictable cash flow. For enterprises, we empower them to work more easily and productively…
IHS Markit
IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and expertise to forge solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. The company delivers next-generation information, analytics and solutions to customers in business, finance…
MetaPack
MetaPack are the leading provider of delivery management technology to enterprise retailers and retail delivery partners across the world. Our platform integrates to 300 carriers and 3500 delivery services such as Next Day, Click and Collect, Locker Boxes and International Delivery – ensuring…
Bridge Solutions Group
Bridge Solutions Group implements the highest quality omni-channel and supply chain technology solutions from the world’s most respected and reliable brands. Our teams are committed to delivering agile and dynamic solutions with the dedication and attention of a trusted…
CommerceHub
CommerceHub is a distributed commerce network that helps retailers and brands expand product assortments, promote and sell on the marketplaces, and channels that perform and offer rapid, on-time customer delivery.
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