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Managing Risk and Improving Efficiency of the Supply Chain

Up and Running

Each time you borrow money in the form of loans or business credit lines, you are financing inventory and must cover that cost until your customer pays for their orders. This helps to reduce all those aforementioned costs of financing, damage, obsolescence, and theft, because that inventory won’t be in your warehouse until you need it.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night.