Inventory Optimization

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Demand-Driven Supply Chain Planning in a Push Business-image
18 July 2017

Demand-Driven Supply Chain Planning in a Push Business

Demand-Driven Supply Chain Planning in a Push...

A question we hear often is “How can I have demand-driven supply chain planning in a push business?...
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1 May 2017

Nucleus Pinpoints Inventory Optimization Trends and Solution Providers

Nucleus Pinpoints Inventory Optimization Trends and Solution...

The Nucleus Research Inventory Optimization (IO) Value Matrix report was just released, identifying the latest inventory optimization trends,...
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16 March 2017

Industrial Supply Chain Planning is Different. Here’s How.

Industrial Supply Chain Planning is Different. Here’s...

Two recent benchmarking surveys, one by Gartner and another by ToolsGroup, identified specific issues that make industrial supply...
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21 June 2016

When SMBs Hit the Inventory Planning Complexity Wall

When SMBs Hit the Inventory Planning Complexity...

Inventory planning is especially important to small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs). Nobody wants to tie up more working capital in inventory than...
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17 May 2016

Is Inventory Optimization a Key to Omnichannel Survival?

Is Inventory Optimization a Key to Omnichannel...

For multi-channel retailers, it’s getting increasingly difficult to survive in “the Amazon jungle”. Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters...
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10 May 2016

What’s Wrong with Aftermarket Parts Supply Chain Planning?

What’s Wrong with Aftermarket Parts Supply Chain...

This is actually a trick question. What’s wrong with aftermarket supply chain planning really has nothing to do...
The View from Finance: Freeing Up Cash with Inventory Optimization-image
3 May 2016

The View from Finance: Freeing Up Cash with Inventory Optimization

The View from Finance: Freeing Up Cash...

If you (or your boss) are measured by your company's Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) or a similar...
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22 March 2016

What’s New in Inventory Optimization?

What’s New in Inventory Optimization?

Principal Analyst James Cooke of Nucleus Research just published his 2016 Inventory Optimization Value Matrix which highlights this...
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10 November 2015

Five Types of Inventory Optimization You Should Know

Five Types of Inventory Optimization You Should...

[caption id="attachment_7932" align="aligncenter" width="541"] For inventory optimization, optimizing inventory configuration is often the predominant issue in most manufacturing...
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3 November 2015

When is Inventory Too “Lean”? Finding the Right Balance

When is Inventory Too “Lean”? Finding the...

I learned about “lean manufacturing” (or simply “lean”) back in the 1990s when I met James Womack and...