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How Safety Stock Absorbs Demand Volatility-image
22 September 2015

How Safety Stock Absorbs Demand Volatility

How Safety Stock Absorbs Demand Volatility

Demand volatility is cited by Gartner, IDC and other analyst firms as the number one obstacle identified by corporate...
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1 September 2015

Inventory Obsolescence: It Can Get Complicated

Inventory Obsolescence: It Can Get Complicated

It’s hard to get around inventory obsolescence. Derived from the Latin verb obsolesere—to grow old—most products in the...
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18 August 2015

Plan or Perish: Cold Chain Logistics

Plan or Perish: Cold Chain Logistics

If it’s hot in August, you can duck in and out of air-conditioning. But that’s not the case...
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28 July 2015

Managing the Long Tail of the Supply Chain Part 4: Five Takeaways

Managing the Long Tail of the Supply...

Our last three posts covered the key messages of the recent Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) web seminar about long...
Managing the Long Tail – Part 3: How Dart Achieved a 99.6% Service Level-image
21 July 2015

Managing the Long Tail – Part 3: How Dart Achieved a 99.6% Service Level

Managing the Long Tail – Part 3:...

After analyzing the long tail supply chain challenge in the last two blogs, this week we see how Dart...
The Long Tail of the Supply Chain: Part 2 – Pareto is Dead-image
14 July 2015

The Long Tail of the Supply Chain: Part 2 – Pareto is Dead

The Long Tail of the Supply Chain:...

In last week’s post about the long tail of the supply chain, Lora Cecere emphasized the need to forego...
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7 July 2015

Managing the Long Tail of the Supply Chain: Part 1

Managing the Long Tail of the Supply...

This month we will dedicate four posts to an important but not well understood supply chain planning phenomenon...
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2 June 2015

Adapting Demand Forecasting to the Multichannel Supply Chain

Adapting Demand Forecasting to the Multichannel Supply...

How do industry insiders expect demand forecasting to adapt to multichannel supply chain? According to Gartner analyst Tom...
The Role of Inventory Optimization in a Market-Driven Supply Chain-image
19 May 2015

The Role of Inventory Optimization in a Market-Driven Supply Chain

The Role of Inventory Optimization in a...

It’s time to rethink inventory. For years it’s been portrayed as a place where working capital goes to...
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10 February 2015

Supply Chain Innovation: Service Parts Planning Case Study

Supply Chain Innovation: Service Parts Planning Case...

Last week we talked about the complexity of service and aftermarket parts planning, and what’s new in supply chain...