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Ecommerce Inventory Management: Challenges & Solutions

Logistics Bureau

Effective inventory management has become increasingly crucial for businesses in this fast-paced and rapidly evolving era of ecommerce. Moreover, the ecommerce explosion has brought new and unique challenges that complicate inventory management for enterprises selling online.

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Inventory Optimisation: How Much Stock is Right for Your Company?

Logistics Bureau

Among the universal challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed upon the supply chain management profession is the question of inventory, specifically, “how much is enough?”. It wasn’t long ago that businesses were asking, “By how much can I reduce my levels of inventory?”. Let’s Start with Safety Stock.

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Macroeconomic Monday® - Inventory to Sales Ratio

10xLogistics

While I was out", the inventory to sales ratio in the economy has made a very nice move. While not even close to the post recession area it is starting to move down which indicates the bleeding off of inventory has begun. Of course, for transportation to tighten, and rates to go up, this will need to tighten some more.

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7 Reasons Why ShipMonk is the Smart 3PL Choice

Ship Monk

In a nutshell, ShipMonk’s proprietary 3PL software offers you mastery of: Order Management Inventory Management Warehouse Management Fulfillment Automation Market Integrations All Order Data (Real-time and Historical) Add to that, when using ShipMonk 3PL software, you’ll always have complete transparency and access to customer support.

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KPIs to assist manufacturers and distributors with supply chain challenges

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Industries experienced severe operational and financial consequences with issues like supply shortages, supply and demand surges, inventory shortfalls and reduced productivity. It measures the amount of elapsed time from when an order is accepted to when the product is produced and entered into finished goods inventory.

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Email Tips for Ecommerce Businesses

Ship Monk

We’d go so far as to say that these loyal fans are your most precious business asset — more valuable, even, than your inventory — and that’s saying something, coming from a 3PL that stores inventory! Of course, what you say is just as important as how you say it. So, how do you nurture this relationship and make the most of it?

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How to Calculate Safety Stock: Three Different Calculations

EazyStock

If you carry too much inventory, you risk tying-up much needed working capital. Safety stock is defined as inventory that is carried to prevent stock-outs caused by fluctuating customer demand, forecast inaccuracies or variability in supplier lead times. In reality, of course, this rarely happens. Fixed safety stock levels.

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