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4 Ways to Keep Shipments Moving Smoothly During Annual Leave!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Proactively Encourage Employees to Book Leave — So They Don’t All Leave It Till the Last Minute. When you are in low season, encourage your employees to book leave. During the holiday season, you will probably have many of your employees booking leave. Reach out to your customers and ask.

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7 Principles of Supply Chain Management Explained

Supply Chain Opz

If you make the demand forecast based on SKU/Store level , using the POS data you get from retailers is more accurate than using your own historical order data. In 1987, Robert Kaplan and W Bruns defined the activity based costing concept in his book " Accounting and Management: A Field Study Perspective ". best of supplychainopz.

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The Elegance of the Costco Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Having worked at a Retailer myself I have first hand knowledge of the challenges there can be in running a Retail Supply Chain. As such we wrote The Hidden Complexity of the Retail Supply Chain to share some of these experiences. books, clothing, meat products). Low SKU Count.

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Doing the math (Flowcasting)

The Network Effect

I can still remember how excited and proud I was when I presented my Mom an autographed copy of our book, “Flowcasting the Retail Supply Chain For those of you who don’t know Betty Doherty, she’s a word wizard – loves to read and even dabbles with writing her own poetry. I knew then, that Mom would read the book.

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The Supply Chain Detective™ and the Holiday Readiness Catastrophe!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The company was diversifying its offering away from just being a retailer of books and adding a highly complex portfolio of department store type items. As you can appreciate handling this diverse set of items is significantly different than just handling different sizes of rectangular books.

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5 Reasons to Sell on Amazon!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Ranging from books, clothes, home goods, to even brand-new cars, customers love to shop on Amazon for countless reasons. There are so many reasons to sell on Amazon that you could write a whole book about them. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t dive on in. In 2018, Amazon was responsible for about half of all e-commerce sales.

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Supply Chain Automation Helps Selling Food Online!

Supply Chain Game Changer

In major cities all across the globe, the amount of dine-in bookings has decreased by a large factor. This is a watershed moment in the history of the industry. COVID-19 has significantly reduced the amount of takers for in-person dining.