A Bullwhip Effect Creates Waves of Inventory Issues Demand forecasting can eliminate many of your “wave-riding” activities in supply chain planning. Your company invests significant resources, time, and money in planning and executing inventory replenishment and promotional events. You often experience service problems when your suppliers don’t have inventory to support your business. The suppliers […]
Inventory Optimization: Balance is Key for Success How can you ensure the highest levels of success? Merchandisers and Buyers are executing promotions, product assortment changes, and new product roll-out events throughout the year. Those events affect the flow of products into your DCs and stores. They can also affect vendor fill rates and lead time performance. […]
How Visible are the Links in your Supply Chain? To keep up with their customers in today’s marketplace, retailers need supply chain visibility to look closer at their entire supply chains’ performance to succeed. To have happy customers in today’s marketplace requires retailers to be much more responsive to their customer’s demands. Retailers must examine […]
Finding the Right Balance between Too Much and Too Little Intermittent demand is far too often a stumbling block for inexperienced inventory managers. A few common mismanagement mistakes lead to deep cuts in a retailer’s GMROI.Generally paired on the shelf alongside high-demand products, intermittent and low-demand products account for 35%-40% of retailer assortments, and can […]
Inventory Replenishment Software Needs Updates The retail landscape has changed widely over the last 15 years; How about your inventory replenishment? Today’s customers demand more choices and have higher expectations.. Customers want personalization; such things as on-demand product information, access to best price deals, express shipments and exceptional customer service as part of their experience. […]
Forecasting and Replenishment: a Time-Bomb Awaits. Customer preferences have been changing; customers want personalization, on-demand product information like price deals, and exceptional customer service like 2 day delivery. For companies to be successful in this marketplace, they must adapt the way they do business to accommodate such changes. One aspect of a business, which directly […]
Is Managing Slow Demand this Painful for You? Slow and Intermittent traffic is bad, worse is a snowstorm shutting down the highway leaving you stranded in your car for 10 hours. There is nothing worse than slow or dead stopped traffic in a snowstorm right? Maybe, while we sit in traffic, we should consider the […]
Demand Driven Supply Chain Don’ts Demand Driven retail/ wholesale companies stay ahead of the competition by focusing on three key areas in their supply chain. In addition, demand driven retailers and wholesalers know you will resist change and stay focused on sales and gross margin, failing to allow GMROI to impact operating decisions. Demand driven […]
Your Business will Not See Profits from Omni-Channel this Year The giants of retail took a huge bite out of 2013 sales. What did Apple, Walmart, Amazon, Macy’s, and Target get right? Omni-channel retailing…. they did it big and did it well to far surpass other retailers last year. Omni-channel retailing is the new multi-channel […]
Demand Driven Inventory Management: Your Target in 2014 Demand Forecasting and Inventory Replenishment Methods were the top stories (blogs) downloaded and reviewed in 2013. Based on the number of readers and average time spent on a page (3min), these 5 stories stayed in front all year long. These stories are good indicators of where companies […]