We have had another busy month learning and growing. Check out some of the highlights from the past month.
Supply Chain Edge - January 2022
We have had another busy month learning and growing. Check out some of the highlights from the past month.
Blogs
Inventory Management: How to Improve Demand Forecasting
While information sharing can help predict upcoming demand for some inventories, the quantity and/or quality of the information may be limited, creating the need for forecasting. For those inventories that directly serve end customers, information sharing is not an option and demand forecasting is a necessity.
The seven major post-pandemic business tipping points
From April 2020 to June 2020, as we all began to better understand COVID-19 and grapple with the impacts of the pandemic, many of us asked questions about: returning to normal; understanding the new normal; the path to the next normal; and the putting aside of normal and a new beginning. Nearly two years later, as we begin the slow transition to a post-pandemic phase, we are starting to understand that all four of these scenarios will occur.
Internet Marketing Association: Facility Location Planning for the New Normal
With the level of disruption and uncertainty in today’s world, many brands and retailers are experiencing widespread change across their business and distribution operations. Continued e-commerce growth is prompting many companies to add new distribution centers (DCs) and fulfillment methods to cope with changing order profiles and volumes.
CSCMP: Ferguson Enterprises Partners with Tompkins Solutions on New Distribution Center in Aurora, Colorado
Tompkins Solutions, a leading supply chain consulting and services firm, today announced the completion of a new distribution center for Ferguson Enterprises, the nation’s largest distributor of residential and commercial plumbing supplies.