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Supply Chain Planning in a Recession

Even before COVID-19 brought unprecedented disruption to supply chains, business leaders were expecting a recession. In 2019, Bloomberg estimated a 26% chance of a recession for 2020. Now that this is likely for the remaining balance of the year and…

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Three Keys to Agility

Agility is defined as ‘the ability to move quickly and easily’. And over the last few years, agile methodology has been applied to everything from project management to software development. But agility can also apply to supply chains as well.…

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Capacity Planning in Today’s Uncertain Environment

Simply put, ‘capacity planning’ is the process businesses use to make decisions on how much capacity is needed to meet demand. Along the way, companies aggregate historical data, produce forecasts, and interpret market and sales data to make determinations that…

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Safety Stock How Much is Too Much (or too Little)?

Do we really know how to get levels of safety stock balanced? Here’s a good analogy that might explain things. In the children’s story of ‘The Three Bears’, Goldilocks spends much of her time in the bears’ home looking for…

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Beating Disruption with Digital Supply Chains

In the past, companies relied on the shared knowledge of a handful of people within an organization – and sometimes just one person – to plan and manage supply chain requirements. Supply Chain Management (SCM) consisted of phone calls, desk…

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A Comprehensive Guide to Predictive Inventory Planning and Management

Inventory management remains an important operational feature that determines the successes and failures of enterprises especially in the manufacturing and retail industries. For inventory management, the challenges for most enterprises are similar at a basic level. The mom and pop…

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