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2021 Supply Chain and Inventory Management Trends

EazyStock

2021 Supply Chain and Inventory Management Trends for the US. Then 2020 was thrown into chaos by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Here we are, one year later, trying to determine the 2021 supply chain and inventory management trends to adopt. Even now, the global GDP for 2020 contracted by an estimated 4.3%

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Product News Update: April 2020

EazyStock

Our developers are working hard every day to make sure EazyStock is living up to your high expectations for advanced inventory optimization. The “components forecasting” feature automatically calculates the optimal order recommendations and stock levels for each component. Outlook for 2020. What’s new?

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How automated fulfillment delivers for your business

Strategic Sourceror

Instead of each of these processes being done manually, automated fulfillment leverages technology to perform them all faster, more accurately and with greater efficiency. What companies are using automated fulfillment? Automated fulfillment resources help to hasten delivery while lowering costs.

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Ebook: Expanding from B2B to B2C Ecommerce Fulfillment

Supply Chain Brain

In fact, 41 percent of B2B leaders believe selling directly to customers online is the most significant business opportunity in the next year, Episerver’s 2020 B2B Digital Experiences Report shows. Optimizing B2C Order Fulfillment. These differences can have a significant impact on order fulfillment operations.

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Don’t let the shipping container crisis ruin Christmas this year

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Ed Desmond, Executive Vice President of the Toy Association, says that more in-person shopping is expected this year than compared to the 2020 holidays, when the country was in the middle of a deadly winter surge of the coronavirus. Worldwide eCommerce retail sales in 2020 were 4.28 Prepare for more in-person shopping. IBM Sterling.

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

We will decide and response faster in our supply chain and make higher quality operational and strategic decisions. I believe that soon enough it will become a must to provide new roles to young graduates for them to be interested in working in supply chain. These new operating models can create significant benefits.

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What is supply chain resiliency?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

For years, supply chain professionals have measured success by how well they have been able to drive down costs and drive up efficiency. Then, 2020 sent shockwaves through many JIT strategies; the disruption was just too big to absorb and supply chain ecosystems had not been built to flex.