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Using ABC Analysis in Inventory Management

EazyStock

ABC inventory analysis is a method used to classify a business’s stock items into three categories – A, B and C, based on their value to the business. In this blog post we’ll delve deeper into the intricacies of ABC analysis and how it can help businesses improve their inventory management practices. Focus on your category A items.

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Lessons Learned from Black Friday/Cyber Monday

Ship Monk

year over year, but that is a steep slowdown from Black Friday 2022 when YoY sales showed 12% growth over Black Friday 2021. Discounts According to Adobe , discounts peaked at 31% in the electronics category, toys (27%), computers (24%), and apparel (23%). Perhaps this will be the year to invest in more powerful data analytics tools.

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How to Calculate and Apply ABC Classification of Inventory

EazyStock

In this post, we’re going to discuss how you can classify your inventory into three ABC categories and introduce the concept of XYZ analysis. Using ABC classification you can therefore split inventory into three categories: Category A: this is the smallest category and consists of the most important stock items.

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Stop Bleeding Money with Outdated Freight Bidding Strategies

CLX Logistics

Let’s look at the facts – the percentage of supply chain managers using new analytics tools and services to develop better bidding strategies has increased from 17% in 2017 to more than 30% in 2020. In March, we wrote about many of the issues impacting chemical bidding and benchmarking carrier rates in 2021. Service Level Benchmarking.

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Managing Supply Chain Disruptions in the Middle East

Locus

– Lloyd’s Report, 2021. The table below shows what is the industry standard for four major risk categories, this can be used to benchmark what is one’s current risk maturity level. Based on the criticality of raw material and difficulty in sourcing, we can have four categories of suppliers. References. link] [link] [link].

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Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple

Logistics Bureau

These metrics will typically be divided into functional categories, each supporting the top six cross-functional KPIs. Since we first drafted this blog post back in 2017, the technology to simplify KPI collation and visualisation has become more accessible, powerful, usable, and affordable. The last update was added in October of 2021.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to a company blog post, Amazon will also now provide sellers with an estimated capacity limit “for the following two months to help sellers plan over a longer time horizon.” It was priced at $12 a year for some time, though the company increased its pricing to $18 in December 2021.