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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. Lockdowns and Disbelief.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Machine learning and big data analytics augments critical roles in supply chain efficiency, problem solving and cost saving. Data acquisition and filtering and scenario analysis are time consuming practices in supply chain. Efficiency and cost management. Customer Centricity. Oxford Economics and SAP (2020). Olhager, J.,

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

2) Market-Driven Forecasting. Inside-out, traditional processes forecasting processes use statistical methods to predict the future based on order and shipment patterns. So, what are the market signals to model to forecast demand at the cadence of the market? How can you build market-driven forecasting processes?

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Top Automotive Mobile Barcoding Software Success Stories

RFgen

Accurately forecasting inventory amounts for end customers or spare parts is even more challenging. Automotive brand Aston Martin recalled a total of 17,590 cars, which equates to approximately 75 percent of the vehicles made between November 2007 and May 2012. How Ford is Implementing Big Data into its Supply Chain.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

Three Steps to a Better Statistical Forecast Setup. Arkieva COO – Sujit Singh, outlines three essential steps to better statistical forecasting — simulate, measure, refine. She shared that her business had implemented a statistical forecasting package from one of the leading vendors during the previous year.

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Managerial Practice Will Need to Catch up with the Emergence of Real-time Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

Examples include the multiple layers of approvals for purchase orders, delays in decisions when a forecast deviation occurs, or the lack of response when a major disruption shuts down shipments to customers. Some organizations have invested in very expensive systems called “control towers” to manage their “bigdata.

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Supply Chain Management:SAP acquired Ariba, what does it mean.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Cloud & Big Data. Over the past few years, Ive watched Aribas stunning repositioning as a serious on-demand player (yes, cloud hadnt become so fashionanble in 2007-08) with a lot of admiration, though as an SI, this meant a steadily eroding revenue pie. Supply Chain Planning & Forecasting (59). Customer Service.