Vendor Managed Inventory

Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, Conn's HomePlus is one of America’s leading furniture, mattress, electronics, and appliance store chains, with almost 150 retail locations across 15 southern and western states. With a mission to make it...

Warehouses are always searching for ways to increase the efficiency of their supply chains. Cross docking offers one such way to reduce lead times, while cutting costs across both transportation and warehousing. Behemoths like Amazon and Walmart are...

Valentine’s Day. It’s a day to celebrate romance, and for retailers, that means record sales of chocolates, teddy bears, jewelry, and of course, Valentine’s Day Cards. This year, consumers are expected to spend upwards of $1 billion on Valentine’s...

For those of us whose businesses depend on a reliable supply chain, “the new normal” is a comfortless phrase. The pandemic left no industry untouched by supply chain disruption, and it has left businesses wondering what hoops they will have to jump...

Supply chain businesses of all types are shifting away from using historical data as a single source of information for their demand forecasting models. In the past, suppliers based their order replenishment cadence to customers—such as large...