Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

This article is written by Atakan Kantar & Doğa Kurt from Solvoyo, and examines the ongoing trend CPG companies going direct-to-consumer (D2C). However, CPG companies need to be careful about competing with their existing retail/wholesale/distributor customers/channels. Consumer-Oriented Demand Planning.

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QAD

APRIL 11, 2024

All hype aside, AI is really as simple as applying advanced analytics and logic-based algorithms to raw data to generate actionable insights, and it’s already widely used in manufacturing, finance, healthcare, retail and many other industries. It’s safe to say that AI has long moved past buzzword status. This is another area where AI shines.

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Arkieva

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Isn’t the goal of a successful retailer to give the customer what they want, when they want it? Quick trend changes are driven by this customer and retailers must be flexible to survive. Retail Planning – Is It Time For A Change?? And isn’t today’s customer changing their mind on what they want quicker than ever?

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Alloy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Note: in this article, we’ll be referring to your forecasts as forecasts and your retailers’ forecasts as supply plans. With supply chain headaches and inflation driving down brand loyalty, it’s more important than ever to make sure your retailers are effectively allocating your inventory.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Efficient, streamlined logistics operations play a critical role in meeting consumer demand, increasing customer satisfaction and ultimately, reducing operational costs. In today’s competitive retail sector, optimizing logistics processes enables retailers to gain an advantage. Retailers must adapt to changing conditions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

In early November, my colleague Steve Banker wrote an article looking at the top supply chain trends for 2023 and beyond. One of my predictions within that article is that inflation will hinder supply chain resiliency efforts. Can Improving Forecast Accuracy Address Our Demand Planning Woes?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2022

Walgreens, like many other retailers, has embraced omnichannel. The giant retailer was contemplating a full rip and replace of their legacy distributed order management solution – the key solution that supports omnichannel order fulfillment. Blue Yonder is a leading supplier of supply chain and retail software solutions.

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o9 Solutions

JULY 2, 2020

This article has also been published on Business Wire India’s leading retailer, Future Group will implement o9’s AI-powered platform to drive Forecasting and Replenishment activities for their different retail format stores in India. The post Future Group Partners With o9 Solutions in Their Retail 3.0

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ToolsGroup

JULY 12, 2016

Planning is becoming increasingly complex; not only due to the increasing demand and supply chain complexity, but also due to the wide range of new data sources such as channel data, retail data and even web data - nearly all of which wasn’t available years ago. At Kronans Apotek, 310 pharmacies were managing inventory locally.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

Within an organization, the words “Demand Planning” stir emotions. Seldom do we find a team excited about demand planning. They want to improve demand planning, but they remain skeptical that they can ever be successful in improving the process. Usually, it is not a mild reaction. It is too simplistic.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Introduction We’ve written quite a few articles on specific aspects of demand planning, but we’ve never written an introductory piece for beginners or those looking for a refresher course. We plan to do this for sales and operations planning (S&OP) and some other areas of supply chain planning as well.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

My goal in this article is that we need to start this decade by giving science a chance. So to put the team at ease, I spoke, “Let’s test your demand planning model to see if you can be successful with your current approach.” We need to put the past chapter of supply chain management behind us.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Already, supply chains have had to adapt to online shopping, and crazy fulfillment demands. After reading a recent article in SCM World by Kevin O’Marah, I learned that CPG companies have felt extreme upstream pressure, as he puts it. The demand was set by either advertising, seasonal cycles or spikes due to new “hot items”.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) Examples Across Industries Retail Industry Retailers leverage third-party service providers, external manufacturing systems (EMS), and supply chain IT services (RFID, IoT, barcoding, etc.), Woolworths, a prominent Australian retailer, utilizes SCaaS to optimize its supply chain operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

End users – supply chain practitioners working for manufacturers, distributors, or retailers – can attend for free. So instead of giving a speech on this, I am repurposing this content into an article. Ecommerce and omnichannel was already growing more than twice as fast as traditional retail. So, what are the mega trends?

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 3, 2018

It had taken more than a year to renovate the store, part of a companywide effort to square a difficult retailing circle. Across the country, retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Macy’s and Nordstrom are experimenting with ways to distill their inventory into smaller, more-focused locations. Read Full Article.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 29, 2024

Whether you’re a business owner, manager, or simply curious about the inner workings of the global economy, this article will provide you with a solid foundation. Demand Planning: Demand planning involves forecasting customer demand based on historical data, market trends, and other relevant factors.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Even with the pandemic behind us, companies continue to struggle with forecasting volatile demand, and it has a direct impact on their bottom lines. A Wall Street Journal article titled “ Retail CFOs Face Forecasting Challenges as Inventory Hurdles Persist ” illustrates this. appeared first on New Horizon.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

JULY 15, 2022

The Wall Street Journal titled their article on the recent challenges facing the retail industry, “ Retail CFOs Face Forecasting Challenges as Inventory Hurdles Persist.” So your demand planning process appears to be doing a pretty good job because it is reducing the error from 50% to 20%. M in savings. Contact Us.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 28, 2018

I recently came across a Bloomberg article citing how certain functions of the white-collar workforce at Amazon is getting replaced by automation. As the aforementioned Bloomberg article indicates, in many instances, algorithms performed significantly better than humans in terms of the quality of orders. by Dr. Madhav Durbha.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 27, 2022

In this article, we’ll break down what vertical integration is, its benefits and disadvantages, its application in supply chain, and the factors to consider when deciding whether it’s the correct strategy for your company. Vertical Integration in Retail. Necessity of Supply Chain Planning Software in Vertical Integration.

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The Network Effect

APRIL 15, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a fundamental process that all retail, manufacturing and consumer products companies should have in place. Surprisingly, many companies do not have a process to formally balance product supply with product demand. by Brewster Smith, Project Manager, Tompkins International.

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Logility

AUGUST 11, 2020

In most countries since early spring, there has been an unparalleled wave of stockpiling by panicked consumers leading to near empty retail shelves. For example, read the recent article in Supply Chain Dive, From Visibility Software to Pallet Picks: How Tillamook Planned Inventory as Demand Soared.

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SupplyPike

APRIL 10, 2020

Learn how to: Keep your logistics on time and prepared Maintain your replenishment goals Properly forecast and redefine your demand plan Use technology to help. Shortages, extreme demand, and panic buying are causing issues up and down supply chains. Many suppliers are seeing the COVID-19 pandemic as a “black swan” event.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant’s supply chain excellence. is one of a growing number of big-box retailers building out their supply chains with distribution centers designed to meet the demands of online shopping. Walmart’s Supply Chain Forged Over Decades.

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BlueYonder

JULY 24, 2017

Now, at first glance this statistic may appear only to be relevant to retailers, but an increase in BOPIS fulfillment will ripple through the entire supply chain – affecting inventory allocation and replenishment, warehousing and logistics decisions and more. Visit IndustryWeek to read our article, The Customer Is Always Right Now.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

INTRODUCTION: FORECASTING WITH SEASONALITY AND CYCLICALITY Whenever I’m involved in demand planning projects at client companies, there’s always intense interest — and concern — among stakeholders about how the forecasting algorithms work, particularly among those new to supply chain planning and demand forecasting.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

INTRODUCTION: FORECASTING WITH SEASONALITY AND CYCLICALITY Whenever I’m involved in demand planning projects at client companies, there’s always intense interest — and concern — among stakeholders about how the forecasting algorithms work, particularly among those new to supply chain planning and demand forecasting.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 15, 2018

At the Descartes Evolution 2018 conference in March, Mark Holifield, Home Depot’s Executive Vice President of Supply Chain and Product Development, discussed how the retailer is investing $1.2 billion over five years to redesign its distribution and delivery network to “create the fastest, most efficient delivery in home improvement.”

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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. A large part of it is the growth mindset of manufacturers profiled in the Wall Street Journal article.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 30, 2024

This article is a thorough introduction to AI’s role in solving supply chain forecasting problems and sets the stage for a deeper exploration of its capabilities and benefits. It enables businesses to meet customer demand without the excess cost of overstocking or the risk of stockouts. What is Supply Chain Forecasting?

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Alloy

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

That’s why, “finance executives are widening the lens to target additional savings,” according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. In supply-constrained environments, retailers are incentivized to hoard products. This isn’t the usual state of the world, if anything, companies have been able to overproduce.

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RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Fresh Forecasting & Replenishment: Running an Efficient Omnichannel Grocery Retail Operation. Author: Maiju Heino, Product Manager, Grocery Retail. Only a few years back, many senior grocery retail executives were looking at the world of eCommerce and saying, more or less, “it’s not for us’. Insights » Whitepapers.

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BlueYonder

JULY 24, 2017

Now, at first glance this statistic may appear only to be relevant to retailers, but an increase in BOPIS fulfillment will ripple through the entire supply chain – affecting inventory allocation and replenishment, warehousing and logistics decisions and more. Visit IndustryWeek to read our article, The Customer Is Always Right Now.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 7, 2023

You can read some examples in this CIO magazine article. From allocation to fulfillment forecasting, demand planning, and beyond, Blue Yonder’s order management delivers: Real-time inventory visibility giving accurate inventory availability across the network now, and in the future.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Not so surprisingly, the 2021 MHI Annual Industry Report found that 31% of the respondents were already using predictive analytics in some capacity, and 48% were planning to invest in it in the next 5 years. Demand Planning and Forecasting Accurate demand planning and forecasting ensure businesses meet customer needs while minimizing costs.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ann Grackin and Bill McBeath of ChainLink Research recently published an article on Caribou Coffee’s supply chain. They started with demand planning, inventory planning, and replenishment planning, along with all the performance management functionality to drive their success.

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