When you consider the complex journey of an item going from an overseas factory to a retailer’s shelf – and specifically how many different parties want to know about it – it’s amazing. The life cycle of a purchase order involves many players, many systems and many transfers from hand to hand. From the moment […]

Warehouse Labor Deployment: Just the Right People in Just the Right Places, All the Time It’s amazing how much of labor deployment is guesswork. And most people who run business operations don’t realize how much they’re guessing until they see what it would be like to make labor deployment decisions using actual, relevant data. That’s […]

You’re a major retailer. You’re launching a big new product using a contract manufacturer from China. How big is this for you? Big enough that you’ve booked Beyonce to do a promotion. Her commercials are going to start airing in five days. Needless to say, you must – must – have the product in stores on […]

When Agillitics opened for business in 2014, we were motivated by the growing number of platforms that were spitting out data – and how complicated that was making it for the supply chain industry to deal with data. It’s on your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, your transportation management system (TMS), your warehouse management system […]