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Predictive Analysis in Logistics and Supply Chain: How to Apply

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Predictive Analysis in Logistics and Supply Chain: How to Apply | Image source: Pexels In logistics, predictive analysis is simply the process of identifying and forecasting patterns, trends, and behaviors in both human and machine learning approaches, data, and algorithms. How predictive analytics works in logistics?

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

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Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” When costs begin to spiral out of control, the result is usually a loss of revenue in proportion to sales.

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How to Protect Your Customers & Brand from Ecommerce Fraud

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Common Types of Ecommerce Fraud As ecommerce sales have soared, cyber crime has followed. As a result, the ecommerce business has lost the product and the revenue from the sale, plus associated fulfillment costs, shipping costs, and chargeback fees. Here are some of the most common types of ecommerce fraud.

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How to Innovate Your Supply Chain Management: What You Need to Know

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How to Innovate Your Supply Chain Management: What You Need to Know | Image Source: Axestrack Organizations must prioritize supply chain management and implement strategies to increase its efficiency if they want to compete in the market. How to innovate? Why is it important to apply innovation to the supply chain?

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How to Calculate and Apply ABC Classification of Inventory

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If you’re wondering what is the best way to manage inventory with hundreds or even thousands of SKUs, you’ve found your answer: ABC classification (otherwise known as ABC analysis ). 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.

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A Summer of Sales: How to Combat the eCommerce Slow Season

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Sales slumps can happen to the best of us. Whether it’s after the major winter holidays or during the hazy summer months, a temporary halt in momentum is a challenge for even the most established of brands. Who knew that Vito Corleone could give such great sales advice? Who doesn’t love an opportunistic sale or BOGO promotion?

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How to Deliver Great Customer Service at the Lowest Cost

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So, for example, if a sales rep asks them, customers will say, “I want a good level of service, I want a competitive price, and I want a strong relationship with the business.”. To do that we use a technique called conjoint analysis. How to Design your Customer Service Offer. This is pretty useless information, to be honest.