{"id":14321,"date":"2018-10-25T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/?p=14321"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:47:21","slug":"ace-hardware-nails-global-operations-replenishment-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/blog\/ace-hardware-nails-global-operations-replenishment-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace Hardware Nails Global Operations&#8217; Replenishment Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]As its jingle says: \u201cAce is the place with the helpful hardware folks.\u201d But in a store with frequent stockouts, customer service can only go so far.<\/p>\n<p>Because its order replenishment tool was not optimal, that was a situation often faced by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acehardware.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ace Hardware<\/a>&#8216;s international arm. The solution used for several years often meant the chain&#8217;s distribution centers in Ningbo, China; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Colon, Panama had too many slow-moving items and not enough of more popular wares. Management realized it was time to replace the replacement tool.<\/p>\n<p>Ace turned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Ridge Global<\/a>, whose platform is designed to help retailers and distributors identify and deal with changes in customer demand.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supplychainbrain.com\/articles\/28901-ace-hardware-nails-global-operations-replenishment-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14325\" src=\"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ACE-Thumbnail-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<a class=\"button orange\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supplychainbrain.com\/articles\/28901-ace-hardware-nails-global-operations-replenishment-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article Here<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As its jingle says: \u201cAce is the place with the helpful hardware folks.\u201d But in a store with frequent stockouts, customer service can only go so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":28053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[54,48,71],"scp_topic":[185],"sector":[180],"technology":[177],"class_list":{"0":"post-14321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog","8":"tag-cost-control-reduction","9":"tag-inventory-optimization","10":"tag-multi-echelon-inventory-optimization","11":"industry-generic","12":"scp_topic-generic","13":"sector-generic","14":"technology-generic"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41430,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions\/41430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"scp_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scp_topic?post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"sector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sector?post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"technology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/technology?post=14321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}