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Tight Credit Markets? It's Time to Liberate Your Cash

Working capital optimization has always been the least expensive and most readily available form of cash. With tightening credit markets the option of liberating cash from a company's operational processes has moved to the forefront. Inventory optimization presents the second-largest opportunity among the working capital components after trade receivables and ahead of trade payables.

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Closed-Loop Strategies for Distributors and Manufacturers

Only 31 percent of organizations are looking at inventory management as a competitive differentiator versus the rest looking at it as a cost impactor. By adjusting the existing processes to configure a closed-loop inventory management process, organizations can gain significant improvement in customer service levels and reduced inventory carrying costs. The concept of closed-loop inventory management involves seven steps within the process: analyze demand, segment inventory, optimize inventory, replenish inventory, track inventory, manage events, and responsively execute.

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Inventory Optimization Is Just One Tool Among Many in Complex Supply Chains

To make multi-echelon inventory optimization more impactful, it must take a more holistic approach that accounts for the implications of inventory decisions on total supply chain costs, for organizational realities and weaknesses in supporting functional areas.

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Recovery Strategies: Seven Ways To Sense Demand and Predict the Upturn

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Manhattan Associates Integrates Distributed Order Management With WebSphere Commerce From IBM

Accellos Releases Version 6.0 of Warehouse-Management Application

CEVA Will Continue to Provide Logistics Services to South Pacific Tyres in Australia

ToolsGroup Outlines Plan to 'Rightsize'

NYK Logistics, Manhattan Associates Team to Optimize Komatsu Supply Chain in France

Casual Wear Retailer PacSun Implements Material Handling System from Dematic

Going Global Calls for a Whole New Level of Process Collaboration, Aberdeen Study Reveals

New Emphasis on Risk Management Causes Companies to Consider More Than Just Cost When Sourcing Product

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