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GenAI vs Agentic AI: Practical Use Cases in Retail Supply Chain Planning
Five retail planning use cases, the KPI impact of each, and the guardrails to set before rollout.
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Phantom Inventory: Retail’s Hidden Cost
How phantom inventory hurts retailers’ profit and customer satisfaction, and how AI can catch it.
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Fresh Demand Planning: How AI Empowers Retailers
How grocery retailers use AI to lift planner productivity, cut waste and drive sales.
Case study
How İstegelsin Achieved a 14-Point Availability Leap with Real-Time Fresh Product Automation
A rapid grocery delivery player in Turkey lifts fresh product availability by 14 points with real-time planning.
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Studenac Market Conquers Seasonal Chaos Across 1,000+ Locations
8x planner productivity, 81% user acceptance and 55% fewer lost sales across 1,000+ stores.
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AI Promotion Planning in Grocery Retail to Cut Stockouts & Waste
How AI promotion planning helps grocers cut stockouts and waste while protecting profit.
Case study
CPG Fulfillment at Scale: How Unilever Automates Decisions Across 20+ Brands
Unilever combines SAP and OTT data with an optimization model to improve fulfillment across 20+ brands.
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Global S&OP in One Week: How P&G Grooming Reconciles Demand and Supply Across 180 Countries
The global leader in shaving and grooming shortens its S&OP cycle to a week.
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Why CPG Leaders Must Unify Demand, Supply, Fulfillment & Logistics
How concurrent planning unifies demand, supply, fulfillment and logistics for CPG companies.
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US Tariffs: How Fashion Retailers Can Stay Ahead with AI and Optimization
How AI-powered planning helps fashion retailers respond to US tariff changes and control cost.
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AI Inventory Planning for Fashion: Solving the Size Dilemma
How AI inventory planning fixes the size mix, cutting overstock and lost sales.
Case study
Global Markdown Optimization
Automated markdown recommendations and central pricing management at DeFacto, a multinational apparel retailer.
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How İstegelsin Achieved a 14-Point Availability Leap with Real-Time Fresh Product Automation
A rapid grocery delivery player in Turkey lifts fresh product availability by 14 points with real-time planning.
Case study
Demand Planning and Pricing Solutions for Category Management
How automation and predictive insights helped an e-commerce retailer meet its sales targets.
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Promotion Management: Why Is It Important in Inventory Management?
Why promotion planning belongs inside inventory management, and what it does for sales and customers.
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Inbound Logistics Guide for Maximizing Fleet Utilization
How inbound logistics optimization cuts empty miles and cost while raising service reliability.
Case study
Optimizing Seasonal Frozen Foods Supply Chain: A Giant’s Success Story
How Unilever’s ice cream business plans for summer demand that can jump fivefold.
Case study
Unilever’s Recipe for Smarter Logistics: Solvoyo’s Optimization Engine for Ambient Products Transportation
How a Fortune 100 CPG maker found savings in its ambient fulfillment and transportation network.
Case study
Demand-Driven Replenishment & Last Mile Delivery
g2m, a foodservice distributor in Turkey, increases collaboration and planning productivity.
Whitepaper
Big Data Analytics for Wholesalers and Distributors
How a planning approach lifts supply chain performance and cuts waste for wholesalers and distributors.
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An $88B Weight Gain: How Wholesalers Can Put Their Supply Chain Back in Shape
How wholesalers can put their supply chain back in shape.
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Weather-Influenced Demand Forecasting in 2020: 6 Key Observations
It is 2020; we now have reasonably accurate short-term weather forecasts. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the…
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How to Become an Agile Organization Through Digital Transformation?
Organizational Agility along with Digital Transformation, Machine Learning, Big Data and Blockchain technologies was one of main trending topics for 2018…
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Supply Chain Transformation, How Hard Can that Be?
Growing up, I was a huge fan of comedian Steve Martin. For many a Halloweens I simply wore an arrow…
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4 Smart Supply Chain Strategies for Boosting Customer Experience
This is the best of times and worst times for retail. On one hand, online sales taking retail to new…
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Are Your Planning And Retail Analytics Tools Fast Enough For Fast Fashion?
Over the last decade, apparel retail has gone through a significant shift and has turned into a game of fast,…
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How Smart Is Your In-Season Pricing Capability?
In today’s dynamic and competitive retail landscape, value offering is becoming more relevant to apparel brands competing for the last…
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4 Supply Chain Analytics Capabilities For Specialty Retailers
I have two millennial sons. They (and their girlfriends 🙂 ) represent the radically changed customer base faced by specialty retailers.…
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Tête-à-Tête With Orhan Daglioglugil of A101 Stores – A 2016 Supply Chain Pro-to-Know
On Feb 17, 2016 Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine named 28 supply chain leaders as the 2016 practitioner “Pro…
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Omni-Channel for Retail: A Scientifically Refreshing Perspective
Crazy enough the ongoing conversations and debates surrounding omnichannel for retail (including retail consumers, suppliers & service providers) hasn’t lost momentum…
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Mid-Size Retailers Looking for Competitive Advantage Should Turn To Supply Chain Optimization
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While NRF is the Big Show, RILA Steals the Show for Supply Chain
2015 was my first adventure to the NRF big show in the Big Apple. It was impressive to say the least. The…
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Wayne’s wORld: Planning for the NRF Big Apple Big Show
A title made up of a double entendre (not sure if I used that right or if its appropriate but…