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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel. He saw all inventory as “bad inventory.” The impact of the undisciplined demand shaping activity is seen in the shifts in the margin.).

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel. He saw all inventory as “bad.” In Figure A, I share the orbit charts at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for two periods.

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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.

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

Infosys Supply Chain Management

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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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. Simplistic thinking of trading-off customer service, inventory and cost became much, more complicated with the shifts in asset strategies. With greater pressure on shorter cycles and less asset availability, getting good at inventory processes increased. The second issue?

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last decade the use of Terra Technology’s DS product improved short-term demand forecasts by 37% at 13 consumer products, and food and beverage companies. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. I hope that this helps.