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Overcoming Black Friday purchasing and warehouse challenges

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The extended sales period sees increased pressure on companies to get ahead on their demand planning and ensure they have the necessary inventory. This year, purchasing teams are also facing continued challenges due to global supply chain and logistics pressures, component shortages, and soaring prices for electricity and fuel.

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Overcoming Black Friday purchasing and warehouse challenges

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The extended Black Week sales period sees increased pressure on companies to get ahead on their demand planning and ensure they have the necessary inventory. Inventory, POS, shipping, web shops, and accounting software must be able to keep up to avoid lost revenue. Tips for inventory planning during Black Friday.

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Supply Chain Forecasting — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Although it always relates to demand and sales projections, forecasting can also be used to determine product pricing, lead times, labor needs, and more. The integration of AI into forecasting improves accuracy, saves more money, and helps businesses react to exceptions in real-time.

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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

Procurement differs from purchasing in a few key ways: Strategic focus : Procurement has a strategic, long-term focus on analyzing spend, reducing costs, managing supplier relationships, and mitigating risk. Purchasing is more transactional and tactical. Purchasing focuses specifically on the buying transaction.

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Walmart Supply Chain: Building a Successful Integrated Supply Chain for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

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The company has implemented sophisticated barcode scanning and point-of-sale systems to collect real-time data from its stores. By employing these technologies, Walmart gains valuable insights into customer buying behavior, sales trends, and inventory levels.

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Technology Trends in Procurement

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Take B2B services purchasing as an example. Fully-automated spend categorization will boost visibility, free up time, supercharge advanced analytics, and improve decision-making. Character recognition enables the AI to extract key data points such as pricing and timelines, then provide analytics based on this data.

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The extended Black Week sales period sees increased pressure on companies to get ahead on their demand planning and ensure they have the necessary inventory. Inventory, POS, shipping, web shops, and accounting software must be able to keep up to avoid lost revenue. Tips for inventory planning during Black Friday.