Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
While Mexico is quickly becoming an important destination for offshore manufacturing, transporting goods across the border still presents a unique set of challenges.
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
A dynamic policy landscape and ongoing de minimis scrutiny are shaping an era of uncertainty for apparel brands and retailers.
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Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
BIMCO said routes around the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn have been perceived as more reliable and flexible.
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
In the newly created role, Derek Zimmerman will lead procurement, inventory management, logistics and other operational strategies.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Is it time to write the obituary for the era of free trade? Proponents of the practice have had a rough time of it lately.
Procurement Express
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
As a fractional CFO, the pressure is on you to not only deliver financial clarity but also uncover opportunities to save your clients money in areas they might have overlooked. One of the most impactful ways to achieve this? Smarter purchasing decisions. You have the power to guide your clients toward financial health by helping them rethink how they spend, negotiate, and manage their resources.
Purchasing & Procurement Zone brings together the best content for professionals in the purchasing and procurement field from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Una
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Imagine, for a moment, that youre hosting a big party. Realizing the job is too much for one person, you decide to hire help from several different sources. First, you employ a catering service to manage food and drinks, then another group to provide waiting staff, a small band from a music agency, someone to direct guest parking, and finally a cleaning company to tidy up when its all over.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Walmart Canada said selling the business would allow it to focus on expanding its stores and supply chain across Canada.
Procurement Express
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
As a fractional CFO, you know your value goes beyond crunching numbers. Youre the go-to for insights, strategy, and making the kind of decisions that move businesses forward. But delivering that kind of impact gets harder when youre buried in spreadsheets, chasing invoices, or manually piecing together reports. Thats where the right tech stack comes in.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Negotiations on a new collective bargaining deal date back to October 2024, with the union's previous deal having expired in January 2025.
Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon
This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Southern California fueled much of the 7% decline, but demand could heat up this year, according to a Prologis report.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
In my career, Ive never heard of a hundred thousand eggs being stolen," Pennsylvania State Trooper First Class Megan Frazer said.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
The just-in-time (JIT) inventory strategy is one of the most famous modern inventory management techniques. Its a production management philosophy developed and popularized by Toyota focused on eliminating waste, inconsistencies and unnecessary requirements. While developed as a production method, it has broad applications for manufacturing plants, warehouses and any company involved in inventory management.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
After adding PVH to its "unreliable entities list," China is now allowed to fine the company, shut down its stores and manufacturing, and deport its employees.
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Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Another one of the essential inventory management techniques in operations management is backordering. What Is Backordering? Backordering occurs when your company decides to accept orders and receive payments for products that are out of stock. Essentially, this means you order a product only after a customer places an order for it. Though backordering can be financially beneficial, if youre unprepared, it can be an enormous logistical challenge.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
This would be the first time Walmart hasn't occupied the top spot for quarterly revenue among U.S. retailers since it dethroned Sears in 1993.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
When determining a reordering schedule, you can often save warehousing space by reordering more often in smaller quantities. However, reordering more often leads to higher logistics costs while saving on storage costs. Increasing storage costs will likewise lower logistics costs. The economic order quantity (EOQ) formula helps you balance these two costs to find the most cost-effective way to reorder stock.
Skill Dynamics
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Download our Training Catalogs Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all training programs and static skill sets. The latest employee training trends show todays successful organizations as those that adapt quickly by embracing innovative approaches to upskill their teams. A McKinsey Global Institute survey found that 87% of companies worldwide reported experiencing skill gaps now or are expecting to within the next five years.
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Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Fast, slow and nonmoving (FSN) inventory analysis is often used with ABC analysis to help inventory managers prioritize their inventory control techniques and resources. Fast-moving inventory may require more attention than slow-moving inventory, just as high-value products may require more attention than low-value stock. By first prioritizing how you will dedicate your attention and resources, you can improve inventory management.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
The U.S. Government Accountability Office warned in a December 2024 report that the FAA needed to take urgent action to update its air-traffic controller systems.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Inventory management can seem intimidating, especially if you just started an eCommerce business or have recently experienced growth. Its understandable effective inventory management requires many different components, including demand forecasting, replenishment strategies and adequately trained employees. Although its an involved process, todays business owners have access to digital tools that make inventory management much easier.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Order fulfillment is the process of getting your products to your customers. It involves three key steps: receiving inventory, processing customers orders and shipping orders to customers. You can fulfill orders in many different ways, including shipping items directly from your warehouse or working with a third-party fulfillment service. Regardless, your fulfillment method should enable you to meet your customers demands for fast delivery and accuracy.
Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón
Enterprise commerce is evolving fast, and brands relying on rigid, one-size-fits-all solutions risk losing agility. But modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. In this webinar, we’ll explore how an extensible, modular approach empowers brands to integrate new capabilities, enhance performance, and scale efficiently—all while leveraging Shopify’s strengths.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
What Finale Can Do for You Inventory is essentially another word for money. The products you have on stock are items you intend to sell or turn into finished goods. These items are the backbone of your company and the reason customers visit your online store. Keeping track of your inventory is vital to understanding your businesss health and your customers needs.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Inventory Management Techniques to Streamline Your Operations Various inventory management techniques in operations management are available to you. The different techniques, tools and methods vary in complexity, time commitment and accuracy. Many of these strategies can help you optimize your stock levels and reordering schedules based on mathematical formulas.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Improving supplier relationships is the key to better inventory control. Only 13% of businesses have a mature supplier relationship management system in place. Strategically improving supplier relationship management can generate 23%-46% more value for your company. Strong supplier relationships often lead to better flexibility and reliability from suppliers.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Having a plan B for your worst-case scenario makes it easier for you to react quickly to problems as they arise. With a well-formed contingency plan in place, your business can quickly resolve inventory challenges such as overstocking, understocking, overselling and lack of warehouse space. Potential Issues in Inventory Management In the world of e-commerce and modern inventory management, things move fast and obstacles can arise at a moments notice.
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Tariffs will have a major impact on your supply chain, margins, and operations. Drawing on our work with global companies across manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, software, technology, financial services, and a range of service industries, we outline the key strategic and tactical actions companies are taking to navigate this period of heightened uncertainty.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
In retail and warehouse settings, inventory accuracy is often relatively low. Improving inventory accuracy can help increase sales. Because keeping accurate inventory records is so challenging and critical to success, frequent inventory audits are essential. What Is an Inventory Audit and Why Is it Important? An inventory audit is a way to check that your inventory records line up with what is physically in the warehouse or stockroom.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
One of the best modern inventory management techniques is using ABC analysis to classify and prioritize your inventory. By focusing your attention on your most important stock first, your business can plan for success. You can use ABC analysis to determine how you allocate inventory staff and resources, organize your warehouse and order inventory. What Is ABC Analysis and the 80/20 Inventory Rule?
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
While its impossible to predict the future, you can get very close with reliable forecasting methods. A 2020 survey revealed that 40% of retailers plan on managing their demand-supply using real-time data, and 45% said the same with inventory replenishment. Another survey revealed that demand forecasting is one of the top three most popular investments among retail and consumer goods supply chain leaders.
Finale Inventory
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
One of the most important aspects of inventory management is accounting. For most e-commerce sellers and physical retailers, inventory represents the companys biggest asset. Thus, tracking your inventory purchasing costs accurately is crucial for monitoring financial health and reporting your financials for tax purposes. Average costing is the best accounting method to help your busy business stay organized and on track.
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