Innovative supplier of bedroom, lounge and dining room furniture is to partner with AGR to optimise stock levels and accelerate operational improvements. Following significant investments in warehousing and systems that have enabled the family-run business to increase...
Unpredictable patterns of demand create challenges for managing inventory. These primarily manifest themselves in either excess inventory or issues with fulfilling service levels. Demand variability is a constant, there’s no way to predict with absolute certainty...
In the week immediately after the typical Black Friday/Cyber Monday peak shopping weekend, it’s interesting to consider the ways in which things are looking different this year. The usual push to consumers started early this year and it’s likely to continue for...
Our ebook, Shifting Through the Gears, considers the supply chain as the engine of the retail wholesale business model. Some organisations are stuck in low gear, with the engine operating at high revolutions just to move forward. Businesses operating in the higher...
Things have changed in the first half of 2020 and there will undoubtedly be lasting impacts. Consumer attitudes and behaviours have changed – some caused by necessity, others an acceleration of existing trends. A report by global professional services firm Alvarez...
