Precise Demand Planning

4 Causes of Forecast Error and How Distributors Can Avoid Them To Save Cash Now

  When it comes to demand planning, distributors may assume that the same demand for the same items will occur at ...

How IoT-Driven Inventory Management is Transforming Stockrooms

  The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical items with embedded sensors that exchange data with other systems ...

How to Calculate Optimal Inventory in Stockrooms and DCs

  Summary: Inventory optimization software replenishes stock automatically and manages inventory levels to cut carrying costs and eliminate the risk of ...

Carrying Costs in Inventory Management: A Guide to Reducing the Cost of Inventory in Your Business

    Holding inventory in your warehouse or stockroom is great for ensuring customers have access to what they need, when they ...

10 Ways eTurns Saves Distributors (and Their Customers) Time and Money

  Through automated replenishment at the point-of-use, eTurns helps distributors and their customers gain greater visibility into their inventory — and ...

Cash is King: Find it in Your Customers' Inventory and Your Distribution Centers

In the midst of this global pandemic, many distributors are frantically reviewing their business plans and finances to determine their ...

What is Demand Planning? How Technology Can Help Distributors Improve Service Levels and Cut Carrying Costs

It can be a challenge to know exactly what customers need and stock accordingly. One element of successful supply chain ...

Reducing the Sales Rep's Role in Forecast Errors

Sales reps tend to hoard customer information, often leading to forecasting errors that can hurt both the company and customer. ...

COVID-19 Crisis: 3 ways distributors are prepping for what is ahead

    While the distributors we talk to daily are thankfully not sensing a huge downturn in business yet, many are preparing ...

How to Reduce Forecast Error: Focus on Usage Data, Not Sales History

  To forecast demand and plan inventory needs in their own distribution centers and at customer locations, distribution companies tend to ...

Supply House Times article: How To Use Point-of-use Customer Replenishment Data to Optimize Distribution Centers

This article originally appeared as a guest post in Supply House Times, Oct. 2019 Summary: Distributors can optimize their distribution centers ...

The Metrics Distributors Need to Optimize Their Distribution Centers

Rather than view the last 10 feet of the supply chain as the end of the road – what if ...