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Periodic Inventory System — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

These software systems support a variety of stock-keeping methods, allowing users to obtain inventory lists in paper format and import stock data for calculating inventory order needs and reconciliation for a new period. The resulting figures and reports can be exported to accounting software. When to Use it?

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How to Establish Your Brand in Food Importing and Exporting!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Common Mistakes in Importing and Exporting! Food importing and exporting article and permission to publish here provided by Emma Wilson. More business people shift their focus to the food commodity import and export. How do you establish your brand in the highly competitive food importing and exporting marketplace?

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NFTs & Supply Chain: What Are The Applications?

SCMDOJO

At such a time, NFTs will prove their worth. With the ability to know the real-time movement of the product due to its tokenization system, a company can easily find out the owner of the asset by quick scans and running reports. The tokenization system will also improvise how inventories are managed in the supply chain.

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A Snapshot of Supply Chain Technology

Una

Zero visibility of the risks their ships faced, from storms to piracy and political instability, rendered those on shore helpless to intervene. That is why the most important gains in supply chain technology have been in the area of visibility. But that is not the only area where technology is rapidly evolving. For example, nearly 6.5

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OpenTelemetry vs. Prometheus: You can’t fix what you can’t see

IBM Supply Chain Blog

OpenTelemetry or OTel, is a platform that is designed to create a centralized location for generating, collecting, exporting and managing telemetry data, including logs, metrics and traces. OpenTelemetry collector: The OTel collector receives, processes and exports, telemetry data. What is OpenTelemetry? What is Prometheus?

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Collaboration in a shelf-connected supply network

The Network Effect

Network participants collaborate and plan in real time, eliminating latency related to both information flows as well as order lead times. The basic definition of a supply “network” implies collaboration versus a supply chain which of course is serial in nature.

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The Endless Complexities of the Ocean side of Supply Chains

SCMDOJO

A good way to understand longer end-to-end transit times which under the current scenario have increased dramatically on most of the major trade lanes is to take a closer look at where delays are more likely to happen. The extreme need to traverse these nuances has propelled logistics companies to develop new solutions and expand services.