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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, 32% of companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the same organization, and the gaps in alignment between operations and commercial teams are large. In 2003, short-term forecasting approach using pattern recognition was invented by Terra Technology to replace rules-based consumption. It is marketed as demand sensing.

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

By bringing together several technologies that have matured separately over the last decade, it is becoming a system of intelligence, seamlessly integrating the following capabilities: • Integration and harmonization of data from internal and external sources, with transactional data self-cleansed and planning parameters self-maintained.

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7 Principles of Supply Chain Management Explained

Supply Chain Opz

Each customer in US or EU might already control the source of raw materials, ask you to provide dedicated production lines, nominate 3pl companies and air/sea carriers. 3) Align Demand Planning Across Supply Chain. So, logistics network design is a kind of initiative driven mainly by customer.