Discount Retailer Doesn't Skimp on Supply-Chain Investments
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- Dollar General,
- Supply Chain Management (SCM),
- Supply Chain,
- Stores,
- Software,
- Sales Strategy,
- Sales Force Management,
- Sales,
- Retail,
- Keller International Publishing,
- ...
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- SupplyChainBrain.com
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Overview: Based in Goodlettsville, Tenn., just outside Nashville, Dollar General benefits from occupying a well-defined niche. It offers basic household goods to low- and fixed-income shoppers, with no item priced above $50. Stores are mostly in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast. Dollar General faces some significant challenges, many of them built into the nature of its business. At the store level, it lacks the kind of sales volume that makes for an efficient supply chain. Warehouses ship mostly individual picks, not pallets. The ultimate goal was to create a "Glass pipeline" through which Dollar General has total visibility of product all the way to the customer's pantry. Dollar General's fulfillment operation is driven by its transportation planning system, acquired from Rockville, Md.-based Manugistics Group Inc.
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Format: HTML | Date: May 2004 | Pages: 7
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