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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

The initiative was officially put on hold in 2007 as a result. The data captured will provide actionable insight into your stock, whether it be for forecasting or locating purposes. Some suppliers reportedly stopped tagging their products because they believed Walmart was not acting on the data it had collected. HAVE QUESTIONS?

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

Allyson Hatfield, demand planner at MARS Petcare presented. At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. ” I said internally to myself and quickly rebounded to thank her for a great presentation. Allyson’s presentation was just that. ” Her answer was telling.

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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

The initiative was officially put on hold in 2007 as a result [2]. The data captured will provide actionable insight into your stock, whether it be for forecasting or locating purposes. The post Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID appeared first on AB&R. With the challenging start, one can only ask….

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The budget is not sufficient and is often a detrimental input for supply chain forecasting. Why Is the Financial Forecast Not a Good Proxy for a Supply Chain Forecast? The supply chain forecast is a rolling forecast.

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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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Out of Africa

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite presentations at the event was by Francis Marabula, Executive head of Supply Chain, Safaricom, Kenya. Mobile penetration is forecasted to be 85% of the households in Afria by 2015. It started with simple money transfers in 2007 and now includes a range of services. Internet of Things As an Enabler.

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

A Demand-Driven Value Network as defined by AMR Research in 2007: A network that senses demand with minimal latency to drive a near real-time response to shape and translate demand. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. Market-Driven Processes. Demand Sensing.