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Good Times Can Be Dangerous to Supply Chain Operations

Logility

A consequence of long periods of economic growth, like the one we just had from June 2009 until March 2020, is that many members of the supply chain team have only experienced managing a supply chain during growth. A renewed effort is needed to get closer to true consumer demand to minimize the supply chain ‘whiplash’ effect.

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

” I quickly learned that the goal was project implementation: a race to tightly integrate sales information to drive demand planning. Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel.

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

” I quickly learned that the goal was project implementation: a race to tightly integrate sales information to drive demand planning. Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel.

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Companies passing these two tests are then analyzed against the performance factors for 2009-2015: Growth. Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period studied.

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Machine Learning in Supply Chain Planning

Logility

Machine learning computer programs teach themselves to grow and change when exposed to new data. One way to get started with Machine Learning is to look at your Demand Planning capabilities. One powerful example is the use of Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) to automatically adjust inventory positions.

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period of 2006-2015. Corporate report data is not readily available before 2006. If you trace the year-over-year pattern, you can see that P&G made progress on inventory turns and operating margin 2006-2007, 2009-2010.

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

Arkieva

View the full post or view the snippet below: I was talking to a director of demand planning for a big chemical company at a trade show a few months ago. Plan an Efficient Layout for the Warehouse. Arrange your inventory based on how often you need to use it. Take the sheer vastness of the planning domain.