Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
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.
Arkieva
MARCH 2, 2016
Dale Davidson, famed economist who predicted the economy collapse of 1999 and 2007 warns, “Don’t imply that a 50% collapse is looming – it’s already at our doorstep.” Someone even went as far in a Washington Times op-ed to say “It’s worse than 2008, it reassembles 1937…”. Take, for example, forecasting improvements.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Experts and pundits are forecasting wholesale changes to every industry and every part of life, but only a minority of these forecasts of massive, permanent change will bear out. Others are wishful thinking on the part of ideologically or emotionally motivated forecasters,” writes the firm on their website.
Arkieva
JANUARY 6, 2017
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.
The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 1, 2019
Sweetgreen is a restaurant that was founded in 2007 in Washington, D.C Some of them include: dual sourcing, distributor controls, information sharing, and forecasting. . Because sweetgreen’s menu is seasonal and highly dependent on produce availability, demand forecasting is a little tricky but extremely important.
Logistics Bureau
MAY 24, 2019
In fact, during 2007 and 2008, Starbucks leadership began to have severe doubts about the company’s ability to supply its 16,700 outlets. Later, it became apparent that although a redesign would yield some benefits, one of the most significant issues was in the approach to demand forecasting.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 24, 2022
As they bemoaned the fact that upstream trading partners share dismal forecasts. Why would they ever think the automotive industry would give them a good forecast? I then told them about working with a Fortune 500 Chemical Company in 2007. The reason I laughed? My question? The data is available.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
217 
Let's personalize your content