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Supply Chain Management:The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday.

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Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. » The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday Buying Season- Need for Balancing Retailer Online and Fulfillment Process Investments. As we approach the latter stages of the 2011 holiday buying season, the uptick in online buying has indeed occurred.

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Supply Chain Management:The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Main | Demand Planning in CPG industry - Practising the Best Practices » The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying Season will again Test Retailer MCO and Supply Chain Capabilities. Posted by Bob Ferrari on November 2, 2011 6:27 AM | Permalink.

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Integrated Business Planning vs. S&OP: What’s the Difference?

Demand Solutions

Supply Chain Digest tackled this subject in 2011, back when the term “integrated business planning” was still quite new. Bill Harrison , President of Demand Management, Inc., All of this begs the question: Is integrated business planning really something separate from sales and operations planning (S&OP)?

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

Today was the worst day in the S&P since August 2011. There are three tours—General Dollar (use of advanced analytics to understand consumer behavior in test stores), MARS (rethinking demand management to include demand sensing and translation) and Schneider Electric (digital manufacturing).

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. The adoption of Terra’s products were brisk until 2011, but during 2012-2014 sales softened, resulting in employee layoffs and downsizing. Now is time to rewrite your future.

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Supply Chain Management:Adding intelligence in the Forecasting.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

This also includes Demand Management process, which will be the focus of my discussion in this blog. The Demand Planning Organization which is responsible to sense, plan, manage and communicate demand needs to factor in the different Supply chain strategies that are to be employed for different segments.

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

(Figure A is from 2009 to 2016 before the addition of Hugo and Mark, and Figure B represents the patterns for 2011-2020. The impact of the undisciplined demand shaping activity is seen in the shifts in the margin.). Orbit Chart for Inventory Turns and Operating Margin from 2011-2020 for Company A.