Inventory Management
Inventory Management
Andrew Seay shares a few indications that help with supply chain management could deliver big benefits for your company. At some point or another, every company will struggle to manage its supply chain. As sales volumes grow, companies face delivery issues with suppliers, customer expectations seem to increase almost daily and new, high-volume orders bring in much-welcomed revenue, but often add significantly higher complexity. Unless your company specializes in distribution and logistics, it’s unlikely that inventory management is the reason…
Andrew Seay shares an article on the MECE framework and how it makes large inventory problems manageable. How do you eat an elephant? The answer, of course, is “one bite at a time.” The same principle applies to all big problems, including those in the supply chain. A $50M inventory problem is far too large to solve all at once. Using the “MECE” framework can help. Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive or, MECE (pronounced mee-see), is a problem-solving framework that forces…
In this article, Abhinav Chandra explains how using AI can improve business processes and sales. Buying and inventory management automation can help retailers and brands react quickly, reduce markdowns and liquidations, improve customer experience, and drive profit. The fashion industry has been one of the hardest hit by COVID-19. The unprecedented 32% decline in first half sales year-over-year has not been distributed consistently across categories. Below we present data that details the contrasting fortunes of two categories within fashion…
Discover practical inventory management tips that can help your business grow in this post on Carlos Castelan’s company blog. For any products-based business, it’s hard to overstate the importance of inventory management. Not only does effective inventory management help you to evaluate the state of your business and reveal various roadblocks to your success, but it also helps you to keep operations running smoothly and ensure that your customers stay happy. And when your business is growing quickly, it…
Join Kaihan Krippendorff on May 6th, for a summit with 24 thought-leaders from around the globe, across 24 hours where thought leaders will discuss how to rethink tomorrow for you and your Organization. Confirmed speakers include Dan Pink, Amy Edmondson, Marshall Goldsmith, Faith Popcorn, and Rosabeth Moss-Kanter. 100% of profits will go to charity. Donations will be awarded to Kiva, No Kid Hungry, GiveDirectly, and the European Food Banks Federation….
Next week Umbrex member Vijay Goel is speaking at Catersource/ The Special Event in Las Vegas, NV while member Carlos Entrena will be attending MIT Space Week in Boston, MA. The Catersource Conference & Tradeshow is the only annual event of its kind. A show of unrivaled influence and inspiration, it’s a spirited gathering of all the people, ideas, and trending innovations shaping the catering and events industry. MIT Space Week 2020 is three packed days celebrating space exploration writ-large, across the Institute….
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Next week Umbrex member Daniel Wiser is attending Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, CA. The 39th annual Natural Products Expo West, the world’s largest natural and organic products event, gathered an inspired community of more than 86,000 attendees from 136 countries, all working to drive positive change in the CPG industry….
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Next week Umbrex member Anand Joshi will be attending ScaledML in Mountain View, CA. At ScaledML the creators of TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Apache Spark, Tesla Autopilot, Keras, Horovod, Allen AI, Apache Arrow, MLPerf, OpenAI, Matroid, and others will lead discussions about running and scaling machine learning algorithms on a variety of computing platforms, such as GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, TPUs, & the nascent AI chip industry….
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Next week Umbrex member Dan Markovitz will be attending KataCon 6 in Austin, TX and John Nantz will be attending McGuire Woods Healthcare Independent Sponsor Conference in Chicago, IL. KataCon (or the Kata Summit) is the annual gathering place for Toyota Kata Geeks across North America and around the globe. It’s where the “convinced” and the “curious” gather to share what they’re learning, freely and enthusiastically. There is an interesting mix of short keynotes, hands-on breakout sessions, intensive deep dives, and mini-updates from a variety of practitioners, industries,…
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Todd Bryan will be attending StartmeupHK in Hong Kong. StartmeupHK seeks to promote Hong Kong as a startup destination, connect entrepreneurs, and create a vibrant ecosystem that draws innovative, high impact ventures from around the world….
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Umbrex Co-Founder Margarita Soto is attending the World-Changing Women’s Summit this week in Sonoma, CA. The World-Changing Women’s Summit is a gathering for mission-driven women leaders described as an opportunity to intentionally slow down and incubate connection, inspiration, and rejuvenation with other incredible women. Umbrex is a Network Partner of this summit….
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Next week Umbrex member Richard Stuebi will be attending DistribuTECH in San Antonio, TX. Richard is on the Advisory Committee helping to organize the event. DISTRIBUTECH International is the leading annual transmission and distribution event that addresses technologies used to move electricity from the power plant through the transmission and distribution systems to the meter and inside the home….
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