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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

Tight coupling of the supply chain forecast to the financial forecast will improve value. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Organizational alignment in manufacturing organizations is worse between operations and finance teams today than in 2013. Don’t believe me?

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

The initial software product release name was Real-Time Forecasting. DS replaced rules-based forecast consumption with better math (statistics and pattern recognition). In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting.

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

restaurant industry made in 2013. Benefits from its supply chain efficiency result in time savings, more cost-effective inventory management and improved product forecasting, the article said. About 81% of Walmart merchandise passed through those centers in 2013, the website said. The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2013.”

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Forecast: Core rate 1.4% Katrina, Bankruptcy Act. Bernanke became Fed Chair. Bank crisis. Financial crisis. ACA, Dodd-Frank Act. Debt ceiling crisis. Government shutdown. Sequestration. Deflation in oil and gas prices. Deflation in oil and gas prices. Core inflation rate 1.7%. Core rate 2.2%. Core rate 2.3%. Impact of COVID.

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Spreadsheets – A Look Back

Kinaxis

From our eBook, S&OP in the 21st century , “An audit of 50 corporate spreadsheets in 2007 revealed that 94% had errors… one for $100 million!” An error in forecasting made by one function will almost always have an impact on at least one or more other functions.

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Nine Myths of S&OP Technology Selection

Supply Chain Shaman

I have done this report twice before–once in 2012 and again in 2013. When I wrote a summary report at AMR Research in 2007 and 2009, there were two or 6% of the market. In the most mature S&OP processes, S&OP is an update to budget forecasts updates. What Is New? It is a rewrite. Why do it again?

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The future of emergency management

DELMIA Quintiq

Thunderstorms were forecasted for the metropolitan area but there was no expectation that a major health emergency would be triggered as a result. The number of emergency calls logged during the peak of the event was an increase of 593% on forecasted call volumes.