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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. Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I If you want to know future sales ask sales. Measure it.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

As the markets plummet, it is time to remind ourselves that demand is not a forecast. Traditional forecasting approaches are not adequate in a time of market volatility. In the real world, companies operate with a Mean Absolute Forecast Error of 24-60%, and have a bias of 9-40%. I remember December 2007 like yesterday.

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Calibration and Sharpness: The Two Independent Aspects of Forecast Quality

BlueYonder

What Is a Good Forecast? Forecasts are like friends: Trust is the most important factor (you don’t ever want your friends to lie to you), but among your trustable friends, you prefer meeting those that tell you the most interesting stories. We want forecasts to be “good,” “accurate,” and “precise.” But what do we mean by that?

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Nine Myths of S&OP Technology Selection

Supply Chain Shaman

In this report, I list 35 vendors and share the strengths and considerations based on demonstrations, discussions with references and my discussions with clients. When I wrote a summary report at AMR Research in 2007 and 2009, there were two or 6% of the market. SAP supplied none of the references. It is just too easy.

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Why Your Approach to MDM Matters: Single Domain MDM Versus Multidomain MDM

HICX Solutions

Underlining its importance, a Market Study Report forecasts that the total MDM market will reach USD 57.7 McGraw Hill, 2007. A solution is to buy a workflow tool to overlay on top of the MDM platform, but again cost implications must be taken into account. billion by 2025, representing an increase of over 20% from 2018.

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Why Your Approach to MDM Matters: Single Domain MDM Versus Multidomain MDM

HICX Solutions

Underlining its importance, a Market Study Report forecasts that the total MDM market will reach USD 57.7 McGraw Hill, 2007. A solution is to buy a workflow tool to overlay on top of the MDM platform, but again cost implications must be taken into account. billion by 2025, representing an increase of over 20% from 2018.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #7

Supply Chain Trend

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. I have purchased the E-Book myself and truly enjoyed it. . Please understand, I’m also not referring to only the supply chain roles.

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