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How Did AI Hurt Red Lobster But Help ALDI?

Procurement Insights

Under Kenny, Red Lobster also cut two of its longtime shrimp suppliers— and competitors to Thai Union — to purchase more shrimp from Thai Union at higher costs, according to Red Lobster’s bankruptcy filing. Thai Union exercised an outsized influence on the Company’s shrimp purchasing,” Red Lobster alleged in its bankruptcy filing.

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The Thanksgiving Turkey Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Providing that number of turkeys requires the precision operation of a massive Supply Chain. How do that many turkeys get raised, processed, transported, distributed and purchased all to meet demand on a single day, Thanksgiving? The fresh turkey supply chain is much more difficult to execute. In the U.S.

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What’s the Difference Between Fulfillment and Replenishment?

Supply Chain Game Changer

But what does that mean in terms of the Supply Chain? Aside from the demand planning, customer order management, and supplier order management activities associated with Fulfillment most people traditionally think of Fulfillment in the context of the Warehouse or Distribution Centre. Fulfillment.