Planning Posts

• Managing Inventory Chaos During Distribution and Wholesale M&A
  What the ‘M&A boom’ is doing to distributors’ purchasing teams is more than just an annoyance. It’s a big cash problem. One that’s easily solved with technology. Now may seem like the worst time to implement a supply chain planning solution, but in reality it’s the perfect weapon. Supply chain planning technology is the fulcrum […]
• Driving Value with AI in Supply Chain Planning
  In this episode, PlanningPosts talks with Rod Daugherty, VP of Product Strategy at Blue Ridge, about how AI and machine learning can be integrated into supply chain planning to drive value. Episode 7 Show Notes Todd: Let’s kick things off by telling us what is AI? And how has it made its way into the […]
• A Surprising Strategy to Reduce Inventory
  “Sometimes the simplest lessons are the most groundbreaking.” That truth is over 30 years old, but its words still resonate loud and clear. The goal of today’s post is to share a surprising, yet logical lesson… The key to reducing inventory is not to buy LESS; the key is to buy LATER. Teams that use […]
• Bad Pricing Optimization Strategies: What’s That Smell?
  Cliff Isaacson, Executive VP of Product Strategy at Blue Ridge cloud-native solutions for demand forecasting. Retailers have already been feeling the squeeze to fine-tune their pricing strategies for quite some time now; thanks to Amazon, distributors are now being dragged right into the thick of it. Distributors are stuck in the middle of the supply […]
• Specialty Retail Series: Part 4 of 4
  Inventory Optimization Strategies for Retail CX Domination Welcome to the final post in our “Specialty Retail Series.” In case you need a refresher, Part 3 covered “Where to Put Your Retail Tech Investment in 2020,” which was all about being adaptable in your replenishment forecasting. Today we’ll wrap up with some inventory optimization strategies that […]