Back in March 2024, NPR’s Planet Money featured a fascinating episode called “Is Dynamic Pricing Coming to a Supermarket Near You?” It highlighted REMA 1000, a Norwegian grocery chain that’s doing ...

The success of a supply chain business often relies on the effectiveness of its inventory strategy. Without a strong plan in place, companies may run shortages or end up with surplus inventory on hand ...

Editor’s Note: Every year, 40 or so students in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics' (MIT CTL) Master of Supply Chain Management (SCM) program complete one-year thesis research projects. The ...

One of the lessons every seller learns quickly is that good inventory management is the key to a healthy bottom line. The disparity between consumer demand and inventory levels leads to a whole host ...

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 ...

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 ...

Analyst Insight: AI revolutionizes initial inventory planning and stockpiling by estimating demand even when historical data is missing. This optimizes procurement, reduces costs, and prevents ...

How much inventory is enough? How do you arbitrate across different viewpoints, weighing inventory investment against the impact of stocking out? Service Level has proven to be an objective metric ...

Inventory software should keep multi-location stock accurate, automate reorders, flag exceptions, and plug cleanly into your POS/ecommerce, accounting, and 3PL tools. Use this guide to match the right ...