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John Brewer: Building a Supply Chain Step by Step

John Brewer is director of distribution and logistics with CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., the company behind quick-serve restaurant brands Carl’s Jr. and Hardees.

10 Tips: Matching Inventory To Demand

Demand is a constantly changing variable in any supply chain. Each time the demand tides change, retailers, wholesalers, distributors, and manufacturers must align inventory levels to meet customer expectations. Here are tips for doing it successfully.

Stay Chill

Shippers face many challenges when maintaining the cold chain for food transportation. Chill out! These solutions can help.

| December 2022 | Sourcing/Negotiations | Supply Chain | Supply Chain Management

How to Unlock Opportunity With a Procurement Control Tower

With market volatility and sky-high inflation driving shifts in the price of oil and other commodities, it’s not surprising to see businesses adjust sourcing and inventory strategies in anticipation of future roadblocks. Plus, with consumer demand softening, many companies that largely over-indexed on orders last year are now sitting on a surplus of supply.

November 12, 2022 | Food Logistics | November 2022 | Retail Logistics | Supply Chain

Pumpkin Spice Pandemonium

Pumpkin spice mania is a fall tradition in the United States. Here’s how seasonality blended with limited supplies jacks up demand.

November 11, 2022 | Manufacturing | November 2022 | Research | Supply Chain

Manufacturers Feel the Disruption Burden

Supply chain disruptions over the past 12-18 months—including shipping delays and parts shortages due to truck driver issues and congested ports—have heavily impacted manufacturers (see chart). That’s the consensus of Deloitte’s new study, Meeting the Challenge of Supply Chain Disruption, which was conducted in partnership with Manufacturers Alliance. (see chart).

| November 2022 | Supply Chain

Land Of The Lost And Other Peak Season Challenges

A whopping 92% of merchants surveyed by UPS Capital report costly impacts to their business as a result of lost, stolen, or damaged shipments. Half of merchants say they lost $50,000+ in the past year.

| Automotive Logistics | Logistics | November 2022 | Supply Chain

VERTICAL FOCUS: Automotive Aftermarket

Here’s a look at supply chain trends in the automotive aftermarket space.

November 8, 2022 | Careers | November 2022 | Partnership | Supply Chain

NOTED: Supply Chain Highlights

From philanthropy initiatives to recent mergers and acquisitions, here’s what’s new and notable in the supply chain.

November 7, 2022 | Logistics | November 2022 | Supply Chain | Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Strain: How to Navigate Disruption

Now that we’ve been in a pandemic for more than two years, it’s funny to look back at our optimism at the beginning. We expected brief supply chain interruptions and thought that things would be back to normal in a few short months. Then we realized it could drag on for a year or more. But almost three years?

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