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Overstocks, Stockouts and Backorders, Oh My!
This business guide explores how accurate inventory forecasting and planning can improve your inventory control, customer satisfaction and overall business success.

Packaged goods company improves fulfillment
Using a warehouse accelerator, the company decreased workforce planning considerably.

Vending Machines Deliver for MRO Parts Management
This equipment brings a strong blend of solid hardware and advanced data management capabilities to keep MRO parts secure, in-stock and readily available to techs.

Survey: inflated inventories tied to poor data quality and excessive legacy systems
Verusen’s State of Supply Chain Report 2021 finds that few companies are using new technologies to tackle supply chain process issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

Best Practices: The new look of MRO parts management
With supply chain pressures mounting, now is a good time to evaluate your MRO parts management operation and determine if it needs some new best practices.

How to Pick an Inventory Management Solution That Positions Your Business for Success
Real-time Inventory Visibility Ensures the Right Items are Available—at the Right Time—in the Right Place

Don’t Blame Lean Production Methods for Shortages
Inventory is not necessarily good or bad. It depends.

Hoarding inventory is not the answer to Covid-19
Instead of building up more inventory, retailers at the top of global supply chains need to improve their supply chain resilience and flexibility.

Inventory Management Fuels Supply Chain Optimization
Examine the role of inventory management in each step of the supply chain and shares best practices for how businesses can use inventory management to optimize operations.

Fast Order Fulfillment
Today’s wholesale warehouses need an efficient, dynamic and flexible system for faster order fulfillment to keep pace with significantly changing customer behaviors.

2021: Resilience is the new mantra
In conversation after conversation, we continue to learn of the deep changes that e-commerce has ushered into warehouse and distribution center operations, from implementing game-changing automation, robotics and software to tightening up labor and inventory management to elevating the importance of final-mile delivery and returns processes—and everything in between.

Time to tighten up on inventory management
The pandemic stressed supply chains, including how much inventory to plan for and hold at the network level, as well as how to best manage it within the four walls of DCs. Using fresher, short-term demand data, by adjusting slotting, or simply by gaining greater accuracy though solid data capture and verification processes in WMS, should help keep inventory under better control.

What Covid-19 has changed in maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) parts management
It’s been said never let a crisis go to waste. And that’s the compelling driver behind recent shifts in managing MRO parts more effectively. Control, data and active management figure prominently.

Kenco Logistics marks first year of expanded warehouse lab, cites savings from innovations
Kenco Logistics' Innovation Labs empowers customers, including Whirlpool Corporation, to optimize their supply chains and achieve digital transformation

Study: 90% of retail and CPG companies modifying supply chain networks
New joint research from Bain & Company and Microsoft identifies three critical changes in retail and consumer goods supply chain management


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