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Cisco’s Fall From Technology to Inventory Disaster

Clear Spider

In 2001, Cisco went from a leader in technology to inventory disaster. From Technology to Inventory Disaster. Filled with success, Cisco was responding to high volume patterns of orders and accumulating a substantial amount of inventory. But by 2001, Cisco began to face barriers in their supply chain.

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How Demand Planning Influences Supply Planning through Predicting Future Demand Patterns

Vanguard Software

And before that, in 2001, Nike also had a demand planning blunder that led to a $100 million loss in sales. Whereas supply planning projects and manages inventory or supply to meet consumer demand. Organizations can then make shrewd business decisions about inventory and production.

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The ROI Challenge for Supply Chain Projects: Lessons from The Trenches by an Aging Jedi Knight

Arkieva

The director of Supply Chain (or inventory, manufacturing, analytics, customer order fulfillment, etc.) Typical suspects are reduced inventory, increased output, lower cycle time, better on-time delivery, among others. Two of my favorites are Kroeger (2014) and John Milne’s IBM application for central planning (2001).

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

Saying things like “we have had an inventory system since 1972, our ERP system does that – right” Or even we purchased that expensive APS supply chain planning in 1999 that’s the same thing right ? So the insider who tries to introduce S&OP in many organizations starts with a deeply rooted bias that there is not a need.

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