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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Solvoyo’s Solution Bugaboo: something that causes fear or distress out of proportion to its importance. 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? Absolutely!

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Best Supply Chain Management Software for Mac 2024

SCMDOJO

Hence, leveraging the right technological tools becomes not only beneficial. This comprehensive guide highlights software that stands out. For each recommended software, we will delve into the key features that set it apart. For each recommended software, we will delve into the key features that set it apart.

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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. Forecasting inventory is simple in theory, but difficult in practice.

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What Is PPV? Purchase Price Variance Explained

Precoro

One of the ways that procurement teams improve this figure is by tracking and improving the purchase price variance (PPV) metric. In this article, we'll explain what PPV is, why it matters, and how tracking this metric can benefit your procurement processes. Why Is Purchase Price Variance Important?

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

As companies struggled to respond to increasing business complexity—a growing number of products, channels, and markets with regional preferences—few software applications were equal to managing channel complexity. Replatforming Current Planning Solutions. Guess what? Yes, there is a great opportunity, but the question is how to jump.

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How to create a reliable supply chain with effective forecasting and inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

A Better Way to Forecast. Manufacturers can use forecasting to support inventory optimization. Gone are the days where you solely had to rely on your sales team creating wishful thinking forecasts. You can even use comparable existing product history as a starting point to model a forecast for a new product.

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Production Planning Software: Your Comprehensive Guide

Logility

Your Comprehensive Guide to Production Planning Software The benefits of production planning software vs scheduling are about the granularity of the plan: capacity plans (or master production schedules) are not granular and factor in less granular things, like high level capacity, forecasts, inventory, and transfer times.