Inventory

Accenture’s latest holiday survey finds 70% of retail executives are worried they won’t have enough stock to meet demand.

A session at this week’s Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) EDGE conference in National Harbor, Maryland addressed various aspects related to the current state of the freight market, including the impact of various freight recessions, above-average inventory levels despite efforts to reduce them, the importance of maintaining shipper-provider relationships, as well the impact of tariffs, and other topics.

Waterloo, Ontario-based Descartes, a provider of logistics based on-demand, software-as-a-service offerings, announced it has acquired Los Altos, California-based Finale Inventory, a cloud-based inventory management services provider, with a focus on supporting e-commerce businesses across their lifecycle.

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The November LMI score came in at 58.4, which is off 0.5% from October’s 58.9, the fastest monthly rate of expansion going back to September 2022—and the 12th month of expansion since a 49.4 reading in November 2023. The September LMI score was 58.6, with growth over the last three months viewed as “highly consistent,” the report stated.

Not only were capital expenditure budgets on the rise for respondents to our annual survey on Warehouse/DC operations and trends, so was increased usage levels for technology and software, while reliance on paper-based approaches plummeted.

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The “just-in-case” era is over, with operations looking to right-size inventory levels while avoiding stock outs. That may call for layers of technology, starting but not ending with WMS and effective data capture.

OneRail officials said that this deal meshes Orderbot’s sophisticated inventory and order management capabilities with OneRail’s OmniPoint cloud-based last mile operating system and delivery network, creating a powerful end-to-end solution that streamlines fulfillment processes, reduces costs, improves order accuracy and enhances customer satisfaction.

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Bar coding remains the central technology for data capture, with new wearables and handheld form factors to boost productivity. But RFID momentum is building, and a range of real-time location technologies can complement handheld data collection.

Minneapolis, Minn.-based global logistics services provider and freight forwarder C.H. Robinson is keeping a close eye on the current inventory situation, for the 2023 holiday season, in terms of how it has changed the flow of retail freight and subsequently led to retailers relying more on predictive ETAs (estimated time of arrival). C.H. Robinson Head of Retail Logistics Noah Hoffman provided LM with an overview of how predictive ETAs are helping retail shippers during the busiest time of...

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Logistics Management (LM) Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Matt Muenster, Chief Economist for Green Bay, Wisc.-based Breakthrough, an innovator in transportation management, dedicated to creating transparent and fair strategies for the world’s leading shippers. Muenster provided Berman with an overview of the impact of the recently-issued third quarter GDP estimate and its impact on logistics and supply chain strategies.

This guidebook highlights the top 10 supply chain key performance indicators (KPIs) and provides strategies for optimizing fulfillment operations, whether managed in-house or outsourced.