Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 18, 2014
I had worked hard to teach the team presenting to talk the language of demand , but it was not understood at the board-room level. Most have a supply organization that has a sub-group that is chartered with forecasting demand for use by supply. 2) Invest in New Forms of Analytics. Treat demand latency as the evil empire.
ToolsGroup
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. When looking at global online sales, Salesforce reports 57% digital growth in 2020, and 16% growth in 2021, with eMarketer data predicting a continued increase through 2025. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Data source: eMarketer.
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Enterra Insights
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
From demand planning to manufacturing to trade promotion optimization, data is essential for almost every aspect of consumer packaged goods (CPG) company operations. … With an ever-complex consumer purchasing path, it can be difficult for a brand to know where exactly to adjust their efforts. Data and advanced analytics.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 26, 2015
” CNN Money Watch, August 12, 2015. Many organizations will play the shell game of reporting forecast error so that the numbers look better: either calculating the forecast at a higher level in the forecast hierarchy (not at the item level) or reporting the data as a Weighted Mean Absolute Error.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 27, 2015
Last week, I interviewed Robert Byrne, founder of Terra Technology on his demand planning benchmarking study. This is his fifth year of studying demand processes. Most are not… The tail is growing and as a result, there are hidden costs in the business due to complexity. 2015 is a year for belt-tightening.
GlobalTranz
MAY 13, 2015
And on the subject of sustainability, SCDigest.com covered Walmart’s 2015 Sustainability report : Walmart, the world’s largest corporation, is fresh out with its 2015 sustainability report, the eighth such document it has produced. Low prices benefit customers, but low true costs benefit everyone.”
ShipBob
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Think about your most recent purchase. This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Demand planning. Warehousing and storage. Freight forwarding. Handling raw materials. Order fulfillment.
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