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Ann Grackin: Is the Crisis in Demand Management Being Exacerbated by Spreadsheet Dependency?

Logility

Demand management has always been at the top of supply chain professionals’ list of challenges. Against this backdrop, it is interesting that many companies still depend on spreadsheets for demand planning and S&OP , as noted in the recent survey by APICS ( see Are Spreadsheets the Answer , SC Digest, September 2013 ).

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Black Swans and Supply Chain Resiliency in 2013

BlueYonder

This is a serious consideration to take into account as we enter 2013. My blog from earlier in the year identifies four key strategies for supply chain managers for 2012. With 2013 in mind, I would now add a fifth strategy, which focuses on learning from key events and systematizing those learnings.

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Will the Internet of Things (IoT) Help Eliminate Information Latency and Deficiency in Supply Planning?

Kinaxis

Will IoT design enable us to get demand signals from the products and sensory information from the entire set of physical infrastructure for planning? Demand management General News Inventory management Sales and operations planning (S&OP) Supply chain management' What do you think?

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

All companies but two– Apple and L’Oreal– listed in the Gartner Top 25 underperform when compared against their industry peer group for 2013-2022. Companies that operate separate systems for revenue management and demand management create a risk in understanding market trends and gauging price elasticity quickly.

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Who wants to become a demand-forecasting expert? (Part 1)

DELMIA Quintiq

Quintiq (@Quintiq) September 19, 2013. Dr. Freek explains that investing in forecasting or demand improvement pays off. Information collected from crowd forecasting contributes to a more accurate demand forecast. Quintiq (@Quintiq) September 19, 2013. It’s not rocket science. First, supply chain complexity isn’t a factor.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

The Palantir approach is not a good fit for the supply chain management market. The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management. Traditional demand shaping technologies are inside-out focused on order patterns and do not drive baseline insights across demand management.

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How Can You Seize Opportunity If You Cannot Manage Risk?

Supply Chain Shaman

While most leaders early to the subject think of risk as mitigation of events (in Figure 1 we share the most disruptive events from the period of 2013-2018), event mitigation is the easy part of risk management. .” It can include uncertainty, disruption or volatility. The tougher issues lie with complexity and volatility.