SCMR: What Are You Doing About the CRaP Products in Your Business?

In a recent story, the Wall Street Journal wrote about Amazon’s efforts to address unprofitable products. The company has a great name for those items that it deems are not profitable: CRaP, or “Can’t Realize a Profit.” Every company has products with low, no or negative margins. They are typically “low dollar density” – that is – they don’t generate enough revenue relative to the cost to deliver them to customers