Sales, inventory and operations planning (SIOP) is process used for monitoring and upgrading a company's operating plan. It pulls all departments together to ensure that potential problems can be ...

Inventory planning encompasses several parts of your company's logistics and operational capabilities. Accounting gets involved with monitoring and paying for inventory, the warehousing and logistics ...

Inventory-to-sales ratios are at historic lows, stockouts are at historic highs, and workforce issues are widespread. Gaining visibility into your supply chain, including your own operations, is ...

When Amazon launched its free same-day delivery service in 2015, the question immediately arose: Would this buy customer loyalty? Ultimately, yes. Then consumers began to wonder what that meant for ...

Market pressures can sometimes seem as if they fall out of the sky. If your business depends on having the right inventory at the right time, anticipating what you’ll need and when you’ll need it up ...

I have long been puzzled by inventory policies that cause four-color titles to be printed in three-to-six-month quantities when every calculation I’ve ever seen suggests that printing 12–15 months’ ...

Amidst the recent continued economic volatility, C-level executives’ focus has shifted from revenue growth to profitable growth, and hence global supply chain performance has gained a great deal of ...

Companies are struggling to maintain the right inventory. Pandemic-era supply chain disruptions and volatile consumer demand led many companies to shore up inventory in 2021, while soaring container ...

While many high-tech companies are talking about putting vendor-managed inventory programs in place, Sun Microsystems Inc. has figured out how to pull it off. After more than two years of devising its ...