COO’s Need to Know: Democratizing Inventory Visibility
Inventory visibility, which converges demand forecasting with flexibility, management, and automation, is a key concern for inventory-based businesses. A recent Bain & Company report suggests that 40 percent of supply chain leaders expect to increase investments in real-time inventory visibility over the next few years, with demand forecasting (56%) and inventory management (49%) also making […]
What Can Omnichannel Reporting Achieve?
As we look towards the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world of inventory management and distribution has changed. Virtually every 3PL and distributor is inching into omnichannel commerce, with more than a handful crawling into this complicated and analytically-dense territory for the first time. While COVID-19 certainly accelerated the already-strong trend, omnichannel commerce is […]
3 Ways to Tighten Up Your Supply Planning Process
Supply planning is about managing and planning the inventory supply to meet customer demand. It’s the entire planning process, which includes distribution, manufacturing, and procurement operations according to demand forecasts, capacity constraints and material availability. There are a variety of gaps in the supply planning process where errors typically occur, but there are also concrete […]
A Thorough Look at Dynamics 365: Business Central vs. Finance and Operations
McKinsey suggests that next-gen supply chain management software like Dynamics can cut operation costs by 30% across-the-board. But how do you figure out which version of Dynamics works best for you? Despite Microsoft leading the charge in the ERP space, they’re versioning and naming isn’t always clear-cut. To date, there have been hundreds of versions […]
Make your supply chain smarter with StockIQ’s SIOP solutions
For inventory-based businesses to succeed today, they need smart, agile supply chains, which are able to respond to both short-term and long-term needs. This has become even more apparent in 2024 and beyond, where businesses need to navigate challenges like economic uncertainty, unstable consumer spending habits, and geopolitical conflicts, which make business alignment and flexibility […]
3 Ways Using Dashboards Can Improve Customer Satisfaction
When manufacturers and distributors seek to grow their business or stay ahead of the competition, they often focus on the nitty gritty details of efficient supply chain management. This is indeed critical, but it’s always important to keep the end goal in sight: finding and keeping customers. At the end of the day, you need […]
Distributors and Manufacturers: How to Transform Your Business with Dashboards
For distributors and manufacturers, maintaining good margins requires reducing costs while increasing customer satisfaction. You have to continuously hone your processes and decision-making so you’re operating on the razor-thin edge of maximum efficiency. With today’s technology, it’s possible to gather loads of data about daily operations. The challenge is how to compile and interpret this […]
Time For an Upgrade? Check Out Our Competitive “Trade In” Program
Best Supply Chain Software & Support In today’s landscape of rapidly changing supply chains, your company needs the best planning solution in order to stay ahead of these changes and stay agile and profitable. Why Trade In? For this reason, StockIQ is excited to announce its competitive “Trade In” program for qualifying planning systems. With […]
People, Process or Tools?
Is it the processes that I put in place? Is it the software I implement? Sure, the processes in place define the parameters for your management to work within. And the software you choose is imperative to how your inventory data is analyzed, aligned to goals and presented for action. When done correctly, both can […]