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Whenever we clean out the refrigerator at our house, I get the ikky job of disposing of the leftovers. The last time that we did it, the parallel between our refrigerator and many of the warehouses that I’ve been in recently was just close to ignore.
I almost always find something that I’ve been looking for, or have just bought another one, hiding behind something that we never move. How often are the products that we backorder actually in the warehouse, somewhere, but obscured by slow moving, or dead stock?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James M. Apple, Jr. is a Director in The Progress Group. Prior to co-founding The Progress Group in 1991, he was a Partner with Coopers & Lybrand's SysteCon division. During 1992-1995 he served as a Senior Systems Advisor with Vanderlande Industries, a major conveyor and systems provider in Europe.
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