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5 Key Steps To Achieve End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility in 2024

5 Key Steps To Achieve End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility in 2024

Would you hop in your car to drive somewhere if you knew you had less than 65% chance of arriving where you intended to go? When you operate your business without end-to-end supply chain visibility, that’s what you’re doing with your inventory. 

Demand Planning vs. Forecasting: Key Methods, Tools and Techniques [2024]

Demand Planning vs. Forecasting: Key Methods, Tools and Techniques [2024]

Many businesses use the terms “demand forecasting” and “demand planning” interchangeably, but they’re not the same.

4 Best Demand Planning and Analytics Strategies To Optimize Inventory

4 Best Demand Planning and Analytics Strategies To Optimize Inventory

Seasonality, price fluctuation, and changing economic conditions, oh my!

Omnichannel Inventory Optimization: 5 Common Struggles (and Solutions)

Omnichannel Inventory Optimization: 5 Common Struggles (and Solutions)

RIP Brick-and-mortar.

3 Common Problems With Online Retail Demand Planning (& How To Fix Them)

3 Common Problems With Online Retail Demand Planning (& How To Fix Them)

How would you like to see nearly a three percent increase in annual sales without running a single promotion or introducing a new product?

5 Costly Mistakes Retailers Make with Inventory Optimization

5 Costly Mistakes Retailers Make with Inventory Optimization

You want to implement inventory optimization processes but don’t know where to start.

4 Ways Automated Demand Planning Can Go Wrong (& How to Avoid Them)

4 Ways Automated Demand Planning Can Go Wrong (& How to Avoid Them)

What do dishwashers, calculators, and chatbots have in common? All are automated solutions to problems that humans use to solve manually. 

5 Best Supply Chain Visibility Software Your Tech Stack Needs

5 Best Supply Chain Visibility Software Your Tech Stack Needs

Have you ever tried to navigate the hallways of your home without turning the lights on? No matter how well you know the layout of your house, when you can’t see where you’re going, you may feel like you’re stumbling around, lost and confused. 

4 Biggest Benefits of Demand Planning Software (& How To Set It Up)

4 Biggest Benefits of Demand Planning Software (& How To Set It Up)

How often have you heard someone in your industry say that they’ve considered automating parts of their inventory process, but they don’t trust a program to make the right call?

After all, human eyes will always be better than any demand planning software, right?

Not quite.

Human error is actually reported as a primary contributor to most accidents and disasters occurring across industries. 

In other words, your next inventory-related disaster is far more likely to be caused by a human misreading a spreadsheet or miskeying a number than it is to be...

7 Best Inventory Planning Solutions to Help You Nail Replenishment

7 Best Inventory Planning Solutions to Help You Nail Replenishment

Would you like to hear a one-word horror story? Stockout. 

Just hearing that word can make retailers shiver—and for good reason. Stockouts can cost your business hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. The good news? These struggles are preventable: Three-quarters of all stockouts are caused by inventory planning issues. 

Imagine your business is an orchestra. Your sales, warehousing, suppliers, and more are all different instruments. Stockouts (and other inventory woes) happen when your departments play in different keys. Your business can only...