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Your Complete Guide to Inventory Forecasting

Your Complete Guide to Inventory Forecasting

An accurate inventory forecast is invaluable, especially when supply chains and consumer demand are changing rapidly. Effective inventory forecasting can mean the difference between profitability and piles of unsold goods that eat up your available cash.

Hidden under tarpaulin, a prospective Russian fighter jet is being towed to a parking spot before its presentation at the Moscow international air show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 15, 2021. Russian aircraft makers say they will present a prospective new fighter jet at a Moscow air show that opens next week. The new warplane hidden under tarpaulin was photographed being towed to a parking spot across the airfield in Zhukovsky outside Moscow. That's where MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon opens on Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit the show’s opening.

Russia to Unveil New Fighter Jet

Russian media reports said a new jet has been built by the Sukhoi aircraft maker.

Ford Ranger trucks on the assembly line at Michigan Assembly, June 14, 2021, in Wayne, Mich.

Factory Output Dips on Auto Chip Shortage

The shortage pushed production of cars, trucks and auto parts down 6.6%.

In this photo released by the defendants legal team, a team of lawyers for defendants on trial that included prominent Chinese pig farmer Sun Dawu stand outside the courthouse in Gaobeidian, in Northern China's Hebei province on Friday, 16 July 2021. The prominent Chinese pig farmer who was detained after praising lawyers during a crackdown on legal activists by President Xi Jinping's government went on trial Thursday, July 15, 2021 on charges including fighting with police and organizing a protest, defense lawyers said.

Chinese Pig Farmer Who Praised Lawyers During Crackdown on Trial

The chairman of Dawu Agriculture Group was arrested after trying to stop a state-owned enterprise from demolishing a company building.

In this file photo dated July 2007, an Inuit seal hunter touches a dead seal atop a melting iceberg near Ammassalik Island, Greenland. The left-leaning government on Greenland which could be sitting on vast amounts of oil, has decided to suspend all oil exploration.

Greenland Suspends Oil Exploration

There could be 17.5 billion undiscovered barrels of oil and 148 trillion cubic feet of natural gas off Greenland.

Jeff Bezos speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, Sept. 19, 2019.

Bezos Donates $200M to Smithsonian for Air and Space Museum

The donation comes as the richest man in the world prepares to fulfill his childhood dream of traveling to space.

In the years following Arnold’s story, UFO sightings and reports – like this purported photo of a UFO from 1952 – exploded in number.

A Brief Cultural History of UFOs

From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson waves to school children while heading to board the rocket plane that will fly him to space from Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, Sunday, July 11, 2021.

Branson Flight Sparks Optimism in New Mexico

It's been a long and difficult road that started with many unknowns for both the state and the space tourism company.

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The Key to Supply Chain Resiliency Could Be a Circular Approach

"Every time we continue with the take, make, waste model ... we perpetuate the depletion and unsustainability of supply chains."

In this Aug. 26, 2020, file photo, a worker inspects disposable gloves at the Top Glove factory in Shah Alam outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia's Top Glove Corp., the world's largest rubber glove maker, said in May, 2021, it hopes to swiftly end a U.S. ban on its products due to allegations of forced labor after one of its shipment was seized at a U.S. port. Malaysia's government pledged Monday, July 5, 2021, to take steps to eliminate forced labor after the country was downgraded by the U.S. to the worst level in an annual report on human trafficking.

Malaysia Pledges to Tackle Forced Labor After U.S. Downgrade

The country was downgraded by the U.S. to the worst level in an annual report on human trafficking.

This Dec. 30, 2019 image from security camera video shows Michael L. Taylor, center, and George-Antoine Zayek at passport control at Istanbul Airport in Turkey. The trial in Tokyo of two Americans, Taylor and his son Peter Taylor, charged with helping Nissan’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, flee Japan wrapped up Friday, July 2, 2021 with prosecutors seeking prison terms of more than two years for each of them.

Prosecutors Seek Prison for Americans in Ghosn Escape

The Taylors’ defense argued for suspended sentences for the two, who spent 10 months in custody before their extradition.

In this Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 file photo, Richard Branson, right, founder of Virgin Galactic, and company executives gather for photos outside the New York Stock Exchange before his company's IPO. Branson announced Thursday, July 1, 2021 he plans to fly into space this month on the next test flight of his Virgin Galactic rocket ship. The launch window will open July 11.

Branson Plans to Beat Bezos to Space