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Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR): Enhancing Supply Chain Efficiency

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Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) is a strategy that has revolutionized this space, offering a systematic approach to reducing supply chain inefficiencies. Inadequate Training and Skills Development : CPFR programs require staff to possess skills in data analytics, forecasting, and collaborative planning.

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4 Ways to Enhance Warehouse Efficiency with Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics

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The models offer prescriptive analytics, leveraging data on order history, batching and pathing patterns, and warehouse layout to recommend optimal slotting strategies. Restock/Replenishment Planning – Maintaining optimal inventory levels is crucial to meet customer demands without overstocking.

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Driving Rigor into Your Inventory Control Practices Helps You Win the Race

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Reporting to keep the inventory strategy fresh and supporting the goals of the organization. Is a replenishment strategy needed? The replenishment logic and smooth execution of inventory moves will keep pickers executing without waiting time. Track your emergency replenishments. You can’t plan for everything.

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Logistics Software: How to Make Handling Peak Times Easy

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Suddenly, the situation changes, whether because of a new company strategy, ever-present retail dynamics or possibly due to a completely new influencing factor. Both predictive and retrospective data analyses are key in making fundamental decisions and defining logistics strategies. WMS and WCS to implement a strategy for the peaks.

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Cardinal Health’s Perfect Implementation

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It was an IT-led implementation where a planning model was developed, the solution implemented, and then planners – who had not been sufficiently prepared and trained – were expected to use a system significantly different from the legacy systems they were familiar with. Implementing supply planning solutions is hard. Count them!

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How Technology is Helping Companies Move Goods and Do Good

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Employee scarcity and high worker turnover are of critical impact to the efficiency and productivity of the nation’s warehouses, particularly when factoring in the costs of continually replacing and training new employees –which can equate to almost 25% of a worker’s average annual salary. But the impact goes well beyond resignations.

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Make Your DC More Productive Without Sweeping Changes

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This flexible, less comprehensive WMS strategy reduces risk, accelerates digital transformation, improves long-term flexibility, and gives companies immediate access to the technologies they need to compete for the long haul. Highlighting this use case, a storage and organization retailer, with stores throughout the U.S.