Tag: Inventory

[ad_1] For years, global manufacturers have relied on excess inventory as a reliable insurance policy against unexpected business disruptions.  It was a reliable method to help boost critical OTIF metrics since the opportunity cost of not selling or supplying a product to a ready customer has multiple adverse effects. The challenge with that strategy is…

[ad_1] By David Taylor, senior v-p of international content acquisition, Ingram Content Group | There is nothing too new in the idea that printing a book as close to the end customer is a good thing: it saves shipping costs, it saves time, it reduces carbon. Further, if you apply the genuine print-on-demand model to…