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Boo! How Planning with Spreadsheets Scares Your Customers Away

Halloween is just around the corner, with ghouls and goblins popping up everywhere (not to mention gobs of candy). The ghost costumes may be scaring the neighborhood kids, but are your customers getting spooked by the fact that your demand planning happens on a spreadsheet? Of course, they don't know that's the problem but they do know that the product they came to buy is out-of-stock because you presumably didn't plan to sell so much.

And what about the parts of your business the customer doesn't see, like the warehouse shelves overflowing with product? All that wasted inventory not only gives a serious blow to your ROI, it also effects the customer. If you're spending money on products that aren't selling, that's just less money being spent to buy the right products that your customers want.

In a recent report published by Apparel Magazine, Gartner Research Director Peter Bambridge states that one of the main challenges that apparel organizations are currently facing is "the need for better planning." The good news is businesses are catching on.

New Customers - Welcome on Board!

United Pharmaceutical Distributors (UPD) UPD is a division of the New Clicks Group, whose retail footprint extends to well over 500 stores in Southern Africa including Clicks, Clicks Pharmacies, The Body Shop and Musica stores. UPD is the largest full-line pharmaceutical wholesaler in South Africa with five distribution centers supplying over 4500 retail pharmacies, private hospitals, dispensing doctors and retail health stores. JustEnough will be helping UPD optimize their inventory through our OnSite platform.

What's New at JustEnough?

New Office Opening in Los Angeles
	We're expanding to the West Coast! Next month, JustEnough will open a new office in sunny Los Angeles, California. Why? To expand our business and to support our ever-growing list of West Coast customers such as Levi Strauss, Red Envelope and others. Plus, who can beat the weather? Stay tuned for more details!

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What We're Reading

ApparelMag.com
2009 Guide to Software and IT Solutions

"Apparel's 2009 Annual Guide to Software & IT Solutions is a comprehensive resource showcasing apparel and retail software vendors and solution functionality from design to retail."

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SupplyandDemandChainExecutive.com
10 Steps to a More Profitable Supply Chain

From "Analyzing historical trends" to "Respect the 80/20" rule, this article dives into understanding how customer profitability "provides a foundation for aligning functions across the enterprise to better serve your best, and most lucrative, clients."

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SupplyChainDigest.com
Supply Chain at the Core

"You should be careful about what you say on airplanes.

Returning this week from an event in Bentonville, AR – home, of course, to Walmart - and I sat next to a corporate executive of a $2 billion or so consumer goods company. I know that, not because I spoke with this person – he/she was busy every second before and during the flight and didn't really even acknowledge my presence, but because one of the several phone conversations this person conducted as we were waiting for the door to shut included something along these lines:"

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