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Sweetwater Responds to the ‘New Face of Agility’ in Supply Chain and Merchandising

Supply Chain Brain

By the end of May, the nation’s largest online seller of musical instruments and professional audio gear was already finalizing orders and distribution plans for the coming peak sales season. Sweetwater Sound, Inc. didn’t waste any time preparing for this year’s fourth quarter.

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10 Best Inventory Book for All Experience Levels

Supply Chain Opz

Palmatier (Demand Management) 10) Distribution Planning and Control: Managing in the Era of Supply Chain Management by David Frederick Ross (Distribution Management) What are some of your favorite inventory book? Do you have other titles you would like to share?

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Forecasting in a Shelf-Connected Supply Network

The Network Effect

This will also enable them to optimize both their production and distribution plans. By leveraging sell- through data rather than just sell-in, and minimizing the latency between actual consumer demand and its measurement, retailers and their suppliers can gain a more accurate understanding of market conditions.

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Supply Chain Alone Can’t Solve Sustainability But it Has a Part to Play!

Supply Chain Game Changer

We’re a recruitment company deeply specialized in the world of Supply Chain Management – which includes Procurement, Logistics, Distribution, Planning and other functions that involve bringing products from raw materials to market. None of these three communities can solve the crisis alone, but all have a part to play.

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The History of Supply Chain Management! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

This spawned a flood of new technology including flexible spreadsheets and map-based interfaces which enabled huge improvements in logistics planning and execution technology. The Material Handling Research Center provided leadership in developing new control technology for material handling automation.

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The Digital Supply Chain Road is Full of Potholes, Construction and Accidents!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The range of new technologies that have direct applicability to Operations, Logistics, Procurement, Distribution, Planning, Management, and all end to end Supply Chain activities is staggering and unprecedented. It is an extremely exciting time to be in Supply Chain.

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3 Steps for Making Digital Transformation Happen in Supply Chain Planning

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In the case of CPG companies, this could mean looking for ways to link the inter-related decisions along the supply chain such as sudden peaks in demand updating future forecasts and triggering automatically changes for supply, either in way of purchase orders or production plans as well as dynamically updating the distribution plans.