Navigating Supply Chain Issues and Increased Lead Times Due to Shipping Constraints
Over the past year, inventory-based businesses have faced a tsunami of supply chain frictions, forcing virtually every company to scramble, strategize, and worry. Back-of-mind topics like repatriation, supply chain diversity, and supply chain autarky suddenly became pressing, topics. And the entire world faced a convergence of shipping woes — fueled by globalized connections, unparalleled levels […]
The Perfect Storm Causing Global Supply Chain Disruption
What is supply chain disruption? Disruption as defined in the dictionary, “disturbance or problems that interrupts an event, activity, or process.” A supply chain disruption definition is a breakdown in the manufacturing flow of goods and their delivery to customers. StockIQ’s clients voiced concern over supply disruption and wanted to hear what their peers were […]
How StockIQ Provides Pitch-Perfect Inventory Accuracy for Stock Forecasting
Inventory frictions plague the modern goods space, creating frustrated customers, abandoned shopping carts, and billions of dollars in damages. But for 3PLs and distributors, inventory frictions aren’t just minor headaches; they’re torrential storms that minimize profits, destroy relationships, and degrade business growth. To be clear, inventory control is the heart of your entire operation. Over […]
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 […]
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 […]
What is Supply Chain Management and Why Is It Important?
Your supply chain is the culmination of all the resources required to deliver goods to your customers. Because many businesses are continuously changing inventory, supply chain management is critical to the ebb of flow of materials, and an essential part of high customer satisfaction and overall company success. That is why businesses should make a […]
How Dashboards are Transforming Supply Chain Planning
How Dashboards are Transforming Supply Chain Planning Inventory management and supply chain planning is a moving target for most distributors and manufacturers. Even with modern technology and best practices, stockouts, forecasting and maintaining high customer service levels is challenging. Ready to take supply chain planning to the next level of efficiency and accuracy? Download Dashboard-Driven […]