Inventory Optimization

Kurt Salmon and GT Nexus surveyed retail executives to assess their goals and confidence levels for supply chain visibility and fulfillment; our survey report identifies specific areas of improvement that can deliver significant ROI.

How to Lower Costs, Increase Reliability, and Strengthen Your Supply Chain.

Supplying holiday fireworks is challenging, supply chain professionals from thousands of different companies supplying consumable and non-consumable products have to consider past demand trends and predict their products’ demand especially for the US 4th of July holiday.

Your company’s inventory efficient frontier is a tradeoff curve between working capital and service level and represents the currently achievable service level at any corresponding inventory investment.

The topic of today's post is one we hear often and industry research shows it is not going away fast enough, the reliance on spreadsheets and other less sophisticated solutions to manage the S&OP process.

This third in a series of posts that investigates some of the S&OP myths and mistruths and takes a look at one of the hot buttons in the industry; real-time response planning... S&OP the right solution to manage your real-time respond planning needs?

Download Boston Retail Partners 2016 Merchandise Planning Survey to learn how an integrated retail planning platform can transform your omni-channel strategy.

Virtually every business needs to find ways to control costs, streamline processes and leverage user data to measure and elevate performance across multiple KPIs.

Recognizing areas where you may be losing money due to lack of supply chain visibility is only the first step in improving operations.

Control tower solutions remain one of the hottest areas for supply chain applications as more vendors enter this category to provide sense and response capabilities for companies operating complex global supply chains.

Dynamic on-demand warehousing involves buying warehousing services on a pay-per-use basis, and just as with Uber and AirBnB, exemplars of today’s “on-demand” economy, users and providers meet and transact with each other via an online marketplace.

The solution has replaced Merrill Corp.’s paper-based system, resulting in a considerable decline in picking errors.

Retailers are caught in a dilemma – they need inventory to attract consumers, yet they're not moving it very well.

Distributors gain market share by going on the offensive, even in challenging economic times.

If you’re considering a shift from a traditional, push-based MRP manufacturing system to a more progressive pull-based system, this white paper is a must read. While contrasting both types of systems, the paper explores the nature of pull-based manufacturing and the evolution of Kanban systems to support today’s demand-driven manufacturing environment.