Day: September 6, 2026

A catalog can grow while its useful assortment gets weaker. A buyer adds several flavors, device formats, and capacity options because each one seems commercially plausible. Weeks later, the business has more SKUs to count, forecast, replenish, and explain. A shared rule is still missing for deciding which lines must stay available, which deserve a…

A warehouse can receive the right cartons and still create the wrong inventory. Consider two disposable vape variants with the same device body and similar packaging. The spreadsheet calls both of them “Brand X 20K,” one carton label abbreviates the flavor, and the 3PL has been given only a case quantity—not the number of units…