Arkieva

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Changing market conditions makes demand planning in the bioscience and pharmaceutical industries highly critical. More accurate demand planning and forecasting is required for achieving overall business objectives in the areas of growth and operational efficiency.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

by Alexa Cheater Eliminating silos from any company’s supply chain planning processes comes with challenges. And those challenges are only amplified the bigger your supply chain is. That’s how MSD ’s supply chain planning story began. Supply chain planning challenges.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 11, 2023

The innovation-focused cosmetics and aesthetic medicine laboratory teams up with ToolsGroup to advance supply chain processes, sustaining growth while maintaining high service standards. We needed a supply chain planning solution with unmatched forecasting to lay the foundation for customer-centric inventory and replenishment planning.

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Logility

MAY 3, 2018

Of course as a supply chain guy, I pay close attention to the Life Sciences Industry supply chain and hope that advances in supply chain capabilities can contribute to the ingenuity and innovation required to conquer some of these health issues. Understand the unique requirements of their business.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different. In previous years, many companies only focused on getting product into Jakarta (the country’s largest city) and satisfying demand there. Not knowing how much inventory is at each location. Here’s what we found: 1. fast food or retail) are rapidly expanding.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

. <Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. Let’s face a hard fact: the supply chain planning market is a mess. The genesis for this post stems from frustration. Frustration abounds.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Companies were forced to adapt to a radically different working environment on the fly – changing to remote work, navigating a host of supply chain disruptions , working to secure PPE for front-line workers, among many other immense challenges. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 18, 2015

But that’s not the case with goods in the supply chain that always need to be kept cold. The “cold chain” poses a major execution problem—maintaining product integrity across dimensions like temperature and humidity. There are supply chain planning implications as well. Here are two examples.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Amongst the many variables in running a Supply Chain, the one certainty in FMCG, Pharmaceutical and Agri businesses is that inventory is solely in the eye of the beholder.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Causal f orecasting shines a light on , and isolates, actual demand signals from market “chatter,” thus improving forecast quality. Causal f orecasting techniques can uncover complex patterns that are often missed, helping supply chain professionals focus on the truth and ignore market noise and irrelevant activity.

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A Three Part Article Series from QAD DynaSys – Supply Chain Organizations Concerns in a Post-Pandemic World. Read Part One 10 COVID-19 Lessons for the Resilient Supply Chain. Discover Part Two The 6 Greatest Challenges to your Supply Chain if you missed them. Global or local supply chain bottlenecks.

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DynaSys

APRIL 9, 2019

Industries such as pharmaceuticals and medical device are becoming increasingly more patient-centric. How the organization manages their supply chain can yield tremendous benefit to both the business and their patients. Traditional Supply Chain. Patient-centric Supply Chain. Supply Chain Ecosystem.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 17, 2017

Last week we described how attitudes towards improving supply chain planning productivity are changing. And firms are asking, “ Is all this non-value added effort preventing us from reaching higher levels of planning maturity? Thinking Differently About Planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Disruption in supply chain planning is happening. We are on a path to reinvent decision-support technologies like supply chain planning. They were very proud of their work in planning with a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers. My angst is that it is not happening faster. My reaction?

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented global supply chain disruptions, impacting the flow of parts and finished goods around the world. The disruption caused by COVID-19 is unique in that it impacted supply chains across all industries.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

With Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+) ToolsGroup’s manufacturing customers commonly achieve a 10-30% reduction in inventory, improve product availability to 96% or better, and reduce overhead (such as overtime and expedited freight) by 50%. Reduced inventory value of safety stock on clustered items by 18%.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MAY 27, 2015

Just imagine, no weekends or bank holidays to allow the supply chain to catch up or regroup. All FMCG supply chain people will have all had the dubious privilege to call Metro or Asda or Tesco to say “sorry, we are out of stock on Bloggo Powder but it will be with you on Tuesday”. This leads me to this thought.

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IQMS

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Bottom Line: Unpredictable demand swings caused by the pandemic are stress-testing supply chain management software systems across manufacturing, helping many manufacturers discover new strengths they hadn’t realize they had before. Stanley Black & Decker’s Supply Chain Management Challenges.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 21, 2016

Here are six interesting supply chain quotes that provide some lessons along with a prophetic vision of the supply chain future. You need to start your supply chain conversation. ” S&OP Demand Planning Manager, Sonus. This gets back to starting your supply chain conversation.

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Adexa

APRIL 29, 2020

Today many industries are benefiting from Adexa Integrated Business Planning solutions, in particular healthcare companies such as Allergan, Sarepta Pharmaceuticals, J&J and Boehringer Ingelheim. Not knowing what the risk is and what the potential cost would be is one of the most common mistakes in supply chain planning.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Alessandro de Luca, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Supply Network Operations at Merck Group. The pharmaceutical supply chain requires the right mind-set, real-time communication throughout and clear accountability. What is your responsibility regarding the supply chain? “I By Helen Armstrong.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. With changing product profiles, short life cycles, constraints with downstream suppliers, and changing markets, being good at supply chain planning matters. The reasons are numerous.

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Vanguard Software

MARCH 12, 2021

Inventory replenishment involves purchasing and moving inventory, both finished goods and raw materials, from reserve storage to primary storage and eventually to the selling location. The Importance of Inventory Replenishment. Factors to Consider. Download Case Study. ABC Classification.

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6 River Systems

JULY 21, 2020

Much like a body part dies off without regular blood supply, the part of the business that is not properly served by the supply chain also dies off. The supply chain is a network of different companies, each serving a different function. Demand planning cannot be undertaken by the supply chain acting as a silo.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 31, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Brand Protection – The Definitive Role of the Supply Chain! A while ago, we blogged about how more Startups are looking to Supply Chain Management to boost their productivity as they scale. But trust us, if you don’t have Supply Chain experience, you can’t.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 8, 2019

I help business leaders transform supply chains. In my annual Supply Chain Academy class, I offer office hours. His first call was on Sales & Operations Planning, and his new inquiry was on S&OP. I asked if he had read my article, Have You Given Your Demand Planner Some Love Today? Driving Value.

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Arkieva

MARCH 24, 2017

The supply chain planning team is an integral part of a functional supply chain execution (SCE). How an organization is structured can affect the overall supply chain process. Supply Chain Planning is similar. No one notices the supply chain problems that are routinely avoided.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. With changing product profiles, short life cycles, constraints with downstream suppliers, and changing markets, being good at supply chain planning matters. The reasons are numerous.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). Lora Cecere is the founder and CEO of the research firm Supply Chain Insights. I couldn’t write how supply chain had improved balance sheets.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The Logility Multivariate Demand Signal Management solution is an enterprise application for integrating all relevant demand signals into a single source of truth and performing predictive and visual analytics that improve forecast quality and uncover insights to make decisions ahead of the demand curve. Some things to consider.

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Kinaxis

JULY 8, 2015

As you can probably guess, this is the last step in reaching Stage Five for your Supply Chain Planning System of Record (SCP SOR). Data scientists are the new generation of supply chain planners. Supply chain is a risky business! Risk management is being seen as a strategic imperative in supply chain.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 13, 2016

One of my teammates made the comment that essentially boiled down to, “they should be seen and not heard,” which started me thinking, strangely enough, about supply chain. When a supply chain is working at its best, the general population doesn’t see it and often has no concept of the complexities behind it.

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DynaSys

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Building a demand-driven supply chain is not a remedy to all supply chain issues, but it can greatly improve companies’ performance. Demand-Driven Develops Agility by Compressing Lead-times. Long lead times are no longer suited in a world full of demand volatility. Here is why: 1. best case scenario.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 27, 2017

“Based on our research, every organization which aligns top-down financial plans with bottom-up demand plans, as part of their S&OP, sees an improvement in the accuracy and predictability of their financial forecast.” - Matthew Spooner, Research Director at Gartner. CEO of a global pharmaceutical company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Shifting demand and rising prices for cotton and orange juice. Higher spikes for lumber and building supplies. Surprising demand in automotive for car replacement. A shortage of pharmaceuticals in Puerto Rico. History is not a good predictor of current demand. Inventory strategies and processes to absorb the error.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2014

Especially demand sensing and shaping?” ” A Demand Planner for a Large Multinational Pharmaceutical Company. So, I am going to focus here and share my answer: Demand sensing is the application of analytic technologies to detect short-term patterns in channel data and translate it into distribution requirements.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Yet according to retail advisory firm IHL , “The most significant challenges to inventory distortion are the availability of workers and the disruptions outside of the immediate control of the retailer.” It’s also important to remember that retail runs on inventory. Effects of the Labor Shortage on Corporate Workers.

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