Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 27, 2023
When it comes to running a company, when things break down executives have traditionally said “we need to improve our forecasting!” Would better forecasting accuracy be a good thing? Unfortunately, most companies cannot, and will never be able to, consistently rely on highly accurate forecasts. Absolutely!
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 16, 2024
With the evolution of eCommerce, shifts in regional preferences, complexities of product portfolios, decline in forecastability, and increase in demand and supply variability, supply chain planning is more challenging. Turn Volume Make to stock Very Forecastable. Long Tail Configure to Order or Make to Order Not forecastable.
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Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. If businesses cannot accurately forecast revenue, the organization is not resilient. My answer is why are we spending so much money in technology and human capital to degrade the forecast with an exponential impact on inventory.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The essence of the question is resilience and the ability to forecast in a variable market reliably. This gets us to the question of what is the role of the forecast?` For most, forecasting is a conundrum full of potholes, politics, and bias. I attempted and failed to: Use Point of Sale Data in Supply Chain Forecasting.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
Was it that Kraft was not clear in its definition of supply chain excellence (which was true) or not clear on how to best use the system (which was also true)? What defines supply chain excellence? Instead, the focus was on error assuming that items at a location level (SKU) were forecastable. How should they make a decision?
Logility
AUGUST 23, 2016
I have heard a number of supply chain professionals proclaim that their companies should stop forecasting product demand due to poor forecast accuracy. If we could only get closer to true end-customer demand the company could ship exactly what is needed, where and when. It’s the old Push – Pull argument.
ThroughPut
MAY 13, 2022
In this article, we look at the capabilities of the most common forecasting methods, and which situations they are best for given their current limitations. Breaking down demand forecasting. Before getting into the forecasting models, it would be useful to define the three main components of demand forecasting.
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