The ‘Why, Who, What & When’ of Replacing Your Outdated Supply Chain Planning Solution. Part 3: What To Look For In A Partner?

The ‘Why, Who, What & When’ of Replacing Your Outdated Supply Chain Planning Solution. Part 3: What To Look For In A Partner?

Welcome back to our series! We’ve been talking about pricing strategies you’d be dumb to ignore during the pandemic. This series is not just for “getting through”. It’s a new lifestyle. Your new reality, new normal, next normal. Whatever you want to call it. Consumer buying trends have changed forever, leaving businesses slim on cash [...]

Today is about building flexibility into your pricing strategy so you can manage unpredictable cost changes and maintain control over margins.

Welcome back to our series, “6 Pricing Strategies You’d be Dumb to Ignore”! Last week we talked about COVID-19’s explosive impact on ecommerce and the need to establish pricing consistency. The next pricing strategy you'd be dumb to ignore is... Strategy #2: React Quickly to Competitor Pricing We know you are all yearning for some [...]

Intro to this Series One of the most painful lessons distributors and retailers are learning right now is that, when it comes to pricing strategy, a pandemic causes all the garbage to float to the top. Exponential growth in online sales means prices are now ultra-transparent, creating problems for the way distributors and retailers price [...]

If you think your company’s ERP or WMS solution can handle supply chain planning, you’ve got some big problems headed your way. This widespread problem was recently addressed in a great podcast with Supply Chain Now and Mike Mills, Blue Ridge Director of Business Consulting.

Following recent dark news that the world’s biggest pork producer, Smithfield, which accounts for 5% of U.S. pork production, shut down its Sioux Falls, SD plant because 230+ workers tested positive, the world can’t help but wonder… What’s COVID-19 doing to the global food industry? There’s a polar divide between the economic state of foodservice [...]

f your job is to be in charge of supply chain management, you’re well aware that the “new normal” is that there is no normal. Seems like forever since we saw anything resembling normal. Even though we don’t know what the post-pandemic “new normal” will look like, experts believe that whatever it is, it will be here to stay.

I really enjoy reading content from Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights. Like most of us, she was quarantined from Coronavirus at her home in Pennsylvania last month (and probably still is, I assume). I guess she had a lot of time on her hands to think because last month, she wrote a pretty [...]