Date: 10.01.2025 Retail Meets AI: Picture this: a retailer runs out of its top-selling product right before the holiday rush, leaving shelves empty and customers frustrated. On the other side of the globe, a manufacturer struggles with excess inventory piling up due to unexpected shipping delays. These real-world supply chain […]
Date: 07.01.2025 The Supply Chainer: In many companies, inventory is often managed with a single, complex Excel sheet—an approach that only a few employees fully understand. This reliance on spreadsheets can create significant challenges, especially when it comes to optimizing stock levels, forecasting demand, and ensuring timely deliveries. Inventory management is […]
Date: 20.12.2024 The Supply Chainer: Supply Chain Optimization Leaders: Top Companies Driving Inventory Innovation Picture this: a retailer runs out of its top-selling product right before the holiday rush, leaving shelves empty and customers frustrated. On the other side of the globe, a manufacturer struggles with excess inventory piling up due […]
Date: 04.12.2024 Manufacturing & Logistics IT: Urbanica, a leading value-for-money retail chain operating in Israel, offers a diverse range of products including clothing for the entire family, shoes, fashion and home accessories. With 29 stores, many spanning approximately 1,800 square meters, and an online shop, the chain faces some unique supply chain challenges. Read the full […]
Date: 06.11.2024 Retail Technology Review: As retailers gear up for the annual Black Friday rush this month, Supply Chain Managers, Production Planners and Inventory Managers face unique challenges in preparing for one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Read the full article
Today’s resources are becoming more and more limited, and at the same time, the population is growing. We are required to find new ways of managing resources and production. Because of this, the need to reuse already utilized resources is increasing, which has in turn led to the growth of the second-hand market and recycling […]
Uncertainties and variabilities are inherent in supply chains (and in life, I know…) and are often translated to fears. Fears of both phenomena often push people to extreme reactions – for example, on the one hand, fear of losing sales drives companies to overstock, ending up with significant surpluses. On the other hand, the fear […]
For decades, efficiency used to be the leading approach to supply chain management. The main principle of lean supply chains was eliminating any part of the system that does not add “value.” For that, massive efforts are invested in reducing the “price per product,” eliminating excessive capacities, reducing the number of suppliers, producing in huge […]
When Russian tanks roll over Ukraine’s fields when technology companies are dramatically cut in worth when the consequences of the COVID19 pandemic continue to ripple around the world – one thing is clear! Fear is crawling back to the markets; fear from the growing uncertainty will change many paradigms we had for so many years […]
The painful time gap that inherently exists between supply chain lead time and market demand continues to expand. After years, it suddenly became clear: excessively globalized production processes are fragile! The main challenge in supply chains is the long reaction time factors upstream vs. the very short (and getting shorter and shorter) reaction time factors […]
