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Inventory

The future of managing

inventory fl ow

Courtesy CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly

With the rise of e-commerce, CSCMP seeks to help companies and supply chain
professionals fi nd solutions to their inventory management challenges, especially
in urban areas.

ONE OF Rick Blasgen’s roles as the President infrastructure and supply chains to meet the
and CEO of the Council of Supply Chain rise of e-commerce. E-commerce currently
Management Professionals (CSCMP) is to accounts for about 14 percent of total
chair the US Department of Commerce’s retail sales, and supply chain costs for the
Advisory Committee for Supply Chain e-commerce channel are 25 to 30 percent of
Competitiveness. The committee is important sales. If e-commerce grows to say 30, 40 or
because it makes recommendations to the 50 percent of total retail sales, how will the
administration on what the country needs US, or any country, deal with that?
to do to improve its competitiveness on the One area in particular that the committee
global supply chain stage. is concerned about, according to Blasgen,
One of the key questions facing the is urban freight congestion. The demand for
US today is how to adapt the country’s urban freight delivery is climbing dramatically

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