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Ecommerce Inventory Management: Challenges & Solutions

Logistics Bureau

Any shortfalls in the system will typically result in overselling, leading to stock-outs , and overstocking , which ties up working capital unnecessarily and can result in wasteful obsolescence issues. Standardise and Digitise The key to managing complexity, of course, is to be organised.

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Inventory Management Excellence: Some Companies to Learn From

Logistics Bureau

The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises. It’s a random approach in which, for example, a consignment of electric blenders might find a home in a storage location between bottles of shampoo on one side, and dog collars on the other. What Next for Toyota IM?

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3 Supply Chain Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2020

AIMMS

This promises to be a very eventful year. Moving past waste, water, and C02 reduction, they have begun searching for renewable energy sources, different forms of packaging, and increased efficiency overall. 2020 seemed a world away just a few years ago and yet, here we are. What’s on the horizon for supply chain professionals?

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

The American and Canadian militaries believe that the balloon was for surveillance, while the Chinese government said it was a civilian meteorological research airship that had blown off course. However, the flight path and structural characteristics made it dissimilar from those which have typically been used for meteorological research.

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3 Supply Chain Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2020

AIMMS

This promises to be a very eventful year. Moving past waste, water, and C02 reduction, they have begun searching for renewable energy sources, different forms of packaging, and increased efficiency overall. 2020 seemed a world away just a few years ago and yet, here we are. What’s on the horizon for supply chain professionals?

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

It was our job to teach our continuous improvement people how to do that coaching and assisting – beyond just running kaizen events that implement tools. Here’s an example: Say your plant has a set of rules about how fork trucks are to be operated – speed limits, staying out of marked pedestrian lanes, etc.

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Disaster Logistics: The Nature of Disaster Recovery Planning

GlobalTranz

Dumping or eliminating waste and debris produced during the event is another. Of course, the modern supply chain ties into all of this, as well. Food, water, fuel — it all ends up scarce just before and after a major event. When an event is impending or strikes, regular duties don’t just go on hold.