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Inventory Planning for Lifecycle Events

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i2 Inventory Optimization is designed to allow companies to continuously manage inventory policies to optimize performance against business objectives, changing market conditions and supply chain constraints. The solution supports inventory planning for life-cycle events across the entire supply chain spanning procurement of raw material and components, manufacturing of semi-finished goods and distribution of end-products. With these new capabilities, companies can now apply best practices of postponement and risk-pooling to efficiently handle promotions and lifecycle events such as new product introduction, last-time buy, and product transitions. In today’s economy, companies can leverage these proven practices to reduce cost and free up cash while improving service levels.

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Lifecycle Assessment: Where is it on your sustainability agenda?

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Wal-Mart’s recent announcement to begin work on a universal Sustainable Product Index inspired Deloitte’s Enterprise Sustainability group to develop a new whitepaper that explores lifecycle assessment.

The paper, “Lifecycle Assessment: Where is it on your sustainability agenda?” points out that even though the concept of lifecycle assessment (LCA) has been around since the 1980s, it’s only now that U.S. companies are embracing it on a large scale.

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