Category Archives: Inventory planning

Oct 02

Predicting the future

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

For many years, I worked in the salt industry. A significant part of the business was selling salt for the purpose of deicing winter streets and sidewalks. Every year about this (September or October), people would say in my presence … Read More →

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Aug 25

Gaining Control by losing it.

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

For mid-size and large organizations the supply chain and logistics process is engaged on two levels, the high level, international space station level, where grand strategies and processes are designed for the organization. Then there is the lower level over … Read More →

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Jan 31

What Atlanta can teach the Supply Chain

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

Early this week Atlanta came to a complete halt. What can this event teach a person in supply chain and logistics? In truth, most supply chain / logistics people must be secretly smiling themselves because they have experienced minor versions … Read More →

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Jan 24

Planning for New Products

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

Recently there was an interview with Allyson Hatfield with the Supply Chain Brain, which can be found here: http://bit.ly/1eY7UQ0 Allyson Hatfield is responsible for the demand planning for new products at Campbell Soup. Almost all the old line food companies … Read More →

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Jan 03

No demand information

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

I watched a video of Jarrod Goenzel, Director MIT Humanitarian Response Lab. The link is here: http://bit.ly/1bDLro0. Early on in the video, Jarrod Goenzel talks about one of the major supply chain / logistics problems in humanitarian logistics being that … Read More →

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Dec 27

Holiday shipping

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Julian Blumenthal

The volume of shipments on the days before Christmas was so high Fed Ex and UPS could not make a significant percentage of the deliveries promised before the holiday deadline. Sellers in e-commerce you certainly want every sale they can … Read More →

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Nov 15

Importance of people in warehousing

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Julian Blumenthal

Earlier this week, I did a tour of the Mary Kay warehouse serving the Chicago and Midwest region. The warehouse uses a pick to light process. There are lots of boxes with orders in them going down the line. Lackadaisical … Read More →

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Oct 11

Omnichannel and Dominick’s

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Julian Blumenthal

Two events yesterday drew my attention. I attended a program by the CSCMP Roundtable in Chicago at the Motorola Solutions Innovation Center where the topic was omnichannel order fulfillment. If you get a chance to visit the Innovation Center, take … Read More →

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Sep 25

The uselessness of small data

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Julian Blumenthal

For the last couple years, “big data” has been one of those next best thing buzz words of business. Its basic premise is now that we have oodles of data, lets figure out how to use to make the organization … Read More →

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Sep 12

Going against conventional wisdom

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Julian Blumenthal

Today, I took a tour of the the Mi-Jack facilities in Homewood, IL where they make the gantry cranes which load and unload containers on to intermodal rail cars. To be competitive the company needs to make a gantry crane … Read More →

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