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Automatic Replenishment: Everything You Need to Know

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Want to learn about automatic replenishment? Keep reading to find out: What automatic replenishment is How it works Who can benefit from it Its advantages and disadvantages The different types Best practices for choosing a system and vendor And lots more! Table of Contents What Is Automatic Replenishment? Let’s dive in!

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4 Ways to Enhance Warehouse Efficiency with Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics

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By identifying the most efficient placement of products based on their popularity, size, weight, and other relevant factors, warehouse managers can minimize travel time, reduce replenishment jobs, and improve warehouse space utilization.

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

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Is a replenishment strategy needed? The replenishment logic and smooth execution of inventory moves will keep pickers executing without waiting time. Slotting logic will keep required levels of stock in the picking locations, limiting the need to stop picking to replenish inventory needed to complete the orders.

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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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Still utilizing their legacy WMS, they were able to enhance overall DC productivity across all activities, including receiving, replenishment and other tasks that were unchanged by 10 percent. and a growing online channel, was using RF scanners to pick orders both for store replenishment and direct fulfillment, through their legacy WMS.

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Fresh Demand Planning: How AI Empowers Retailers

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Given that we are in the age of AI/ML, I often think of how the small deli where I worked was a perfect training ground for applying AI/ML in fresh supply chain planning. However, I did have a problem with it when I had to open the liverwurst to check the date, only to find that it was expiring that week and needed to be thrown out.