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.

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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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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.

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Speaker: Benjamin Woll

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Shopify’s modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how Shopify’s composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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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.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Walking away from the tie-up with Honda is a huge gamble for Nissan, whose outdated product lineup has forced it to discount heavily, destroying its bottom line.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Advertiser: GEP

2025 will feel familiar, in some regards. The procurement and supply chain category management landscape will remain turbulent, with geopolitical tensions, worries over fresh tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain disruptions posing significant challenges. But you should also expect some lightning-fast changes in 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to upend the way enterprises and procurement, supply chain, and category management professionals operate.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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Advertiser: GEP

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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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?

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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.

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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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