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Essential Guide for Demand Forecasting in 2024

ThroughPut

Demand forecasting is a critical component of supply chain management, especially in the complex and unpredictable market landscape of 2024. Accurate forecasts are essential for maintaining inventory balance, ensuring customer satisfaction, and achieving financial stability. What is Demand Forecasting?

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

ZF sends the call-off, along with the forecast, not just to their suppliers, but to their carriers and 3PLs. The Transition from Lean to Resilience. No industry has been more committed to lean practices than the auto industry. Lean cuts inventory out of the supply chain. Sobeck explained, are even more important. “We

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What’s the Value of Demand Forecasting?

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

Introduction I was recently in a conversation about forecasting with a client team, and one individual, whose background was not in supply chain, asked what the value of demand forecasting is. The link between forecast accuracy and corporate goals is less clear. But that doesn’t make forecasting any less important.

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3 Common Demand Forecasting Challenges and Solutions

Herlitz Inventory Management

What is Demand Forecasting? Demand forecasting is a vital activity for wholesale and retail purchasing teams. Demand forecasting is a process that helps retailers and wholesalers predict future consumer demand. There are various forecasting methods available, many of which have been used since the early days of modern retail.

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What’s the Value of Demand Forecasting?

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

I was recently in a conversation about forecasting with a client team, and one individual, whose background was not in supply chain, asked what the value of demand forecasting is. The link between forecast accuracy and corporate goals is less clear. But that doesn’t make forecasting any less important. Introduction.

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Dispelling Untruths: 10 Generative AI Myths

Logility

During this time, the same AI tools that underwrite new technologies have been key in improving efficiency and optimizing all areas of logistics and supply chain processes including forecasting, supply planning, inventory management, manufacturing, network optimization, and more.

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Leading Inventory Attack Teams with Richard Lebovitz

The Logistics of Logistics

Over his 30+ year career in the supply chain, Richard has worked with manufacturers around the world in operations, supply chain, and lean strategy roles to develop systems that can manage complex supply chains on a global scale. Richard previously founded and led Factory Logic, Inc. acquired by SAP).