Inventory Optimization

One of Zebra's recent acquisitions, antuit.ai is taking a new approach to inventory optimization

As supply chains move past the initial impacts of the pandemic, it’s likely that some organizations will quickly fall back into their old habits.

Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine intensifies the product shortage and price rise issues we have come to associate with Covid-19.

Retailers and distributors try to solve their inventory challenges by using forecasting tools to determine what and when to buy - instead look at the flow of inventory and synchronizing supply chains based on the variability of demand.

In these Covid-ravaged times, the last thing companies need is more bad news, but like it or not, the storm clouds of a global economic recession are gathering on the horizon.

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.

With many economists predicting that the extremely low pre-pandemic unemployment rates will continue once the world reaches the “new normal” of the post-pandemic, warehousing and distribution operators are looking for alternatives.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Jonathan Gold, Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy, for the National Retail Federation (NRF).

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Jonathan Gold, Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy, for the National Retail Federation (NRF).

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.

With modern-day analytic automation, challenges, such as those presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, can be solved through the unification of data, process, and people.

9 ways analytics empowers supply chain management to optimize response to COVID-19.

Is it time to modernize your supply chain technology? This quick checklist helps reveal the signs of an outdated system that may be holding you back. It will also highlight key benefits that will point your organization in the direction of change.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Richard Howells, VP of Solution Marketing for SAP Digital Supply Chain. Howells provided a detailed overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted logistics and supply chain operations, as well as key aspects of inventory management, and what we may expect a year from now, among other topics.

Learn how a global producer of hi-tech semiconductors improved demand forecast accuracy by >40% and enabled better allocation of inventory.