RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Fresh Forecasting & Replenishment: Running an Efficient Omnichannel Grocery Retail Operation. Accurate forecasting is at the core of increased operational efficiency as it is key to accurately match resources, such as stock and personnel, with demand. Forecasting for Different Sales and Fulfillment Channels.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. The Building Blocks.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant’s supply chain excellence. ” As an example of this change in tone for 2015, Walmart says one of its missions is to create “economic opportunity for our associates, suppliers and people who work in retail and retail supply chains beyond Walmart.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 27, 2015

While traditional companies are still looking at improving traditional forecasting technologies and improving the rules for forecast consumption, I think that it is time to take a different stance: Item Rationalization. Traditional approaches like consensus forecasting can make this bias even worse. Need for Demand Sensing.

Supply and Demand 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

When your phone rings, and you and your supply chain team is called to the corporate office to talk about the expansion of your ecommerce strategy for 2015, here are my recommendations: 1) Embrace the Each. If you are going to be excellent at ecommerce fulfillment, you need to have great perpetual inventory capabilities. Redefine it.

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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. Series B Funding: $42.4M Venture Funding: $25M U.S. Series B Funding: $75.5M Series B Funding: $48.5M

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. In fact, the teams ignore the forecast. Founded in 1988 in Milpitas, California, SanDisk is publicly traded on NASDAQ with 8,600 employees globally, and market capitalization in 2015 over $13B.

Inventory Reduction 150

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ThroughPut

JUNE 4, 2020

Also in 2015, the global cost of overstocking goods was $470 billion , while the cost of under-stocking was more than $600 billion. Demand forecasting. Accurate demand forecasting is an important element of inventory optimization. Accurate demand forecasting is an important element of inventory optimization.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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ThroughPut

JUNE 4, 2020

Also in 2015, the global cost of overstocking goods was $470 billion , while the cost of under-stocking was more than $600 billion. Demand forecasting. Accurate demand forecasting is an important element of inventory optimization. Accurate demand forecasting is an important element of inventory optimization.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Now that we’ve established that forecasting is important , you know what your demand planning organization is going to do and how you plan to structure it , here we’ll address where to put it. Pros: Sales has the business intelligence needed to produce a good forecast.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The team sought to predict cost per unit – using forecasted purchase orders, and trying to estimate average cost per unit based on weight, forecast quantity, finish, diameter, width, and angle. They were able to derive an R-squared of 0.80, which is excellent given the number of data points they started with.

Procurement Analytics 60

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Now that we’ve established that forecasting is important , you know what your demand planning organization is going to do and how you plan to structure it , here we’ll address where to put it. Pros: Sales has the business intelligence needed to produce a good forecast.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Contents Supply Chain Movement 19 – 2015 Q4. Publishing date: 27 November 2015. 16 | Profile Ivanka Janssen, Director Global Sales Operational Excellence, Diageo. 46 | Tools & Technology. • Better forecasts and implementation best practices. • Apps for more efficient procurement procedures. Winner of last quarter.

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AFFLINK

MARCH 6, 2017

Excellent procurement is part of the reason that McDonald's has been able to grow from a small family barbecue restaurant into a global conglomerate with more than 35,000 restaurants in over 110 different countries. You Must Devote Resources to Planning and Forecasting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

By purchasing planning and transactional systems for a common vendor, they had one throat to choke and they were familiar with the architectural elements. Instead, he wants to drive supply chain excellence and build the metrics that matter. Attendees at our 2015 Global Summit. The book is a story.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

When I called Mark to tell him that Clorox outperformed for the period of 2009-2015 in the Household Products sector and won the Supply Chains to Admire Award, he commented, “ Lora, I am happy to help. In Agrosciences is the customer the distributor of seed/additives, the farmer or the downstream purchaser of food products?

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Maybe at the start of the S&OP project executives buy in and employees are still eager. He called his idea ‘the world simplest idea’ and introduced that ‘people buy why you do things not what you do’. Another reason is that employees just get tired of an overly dogmatic, bureaucratic process and data focused monthly cycle.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

A survey conducted by American Shipper in April 2015 found that about 60 percent of manufacturing and retail shippers plan to expand their trucking carrier base; roughly 40 percent plan to expand their ocean carrier base. Be demand driven. It is still a people business. He currently serves as Sr.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 13, 2018

The decisions range from big, one-off strategic choices (such as where to locate the next multibillion-dollar plant) to everyday frontline decisions that add up to a lot of value over time (such as whether to suggest another purchase to a customer). 3] Staff, “ The Era of Big Data Analytics ,” CIO Review , 15 December 2017. [4]

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EazyStock

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

*This post was originally published June 2015; it was updated September 2018*. To stay ahead, tech-smart operations, savvy professionals are using logistics and supply chain mobile applications as must-have tools for operational excellence. The system makes forecasting and inventory planning easy.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I have a supply chain team of ten people and we purchase all the raw materials for production in Iceland. What is the strategy of the Company (or Division/Supply Chain): Operational Excellence, Product Leadership or Customer Intimacy? This article was first published in Supply Chain Movement Q4 – 2015.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Developed a process of excellence in supply chain collaboration. That should be sobering news for any business not yet focused on supply chain excellence as a lever for business success. Poor forecast accuracy. There is also the question of ethical procurement and purchasing to consider. . Procurement costs.

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Vinculum

OCTOBER 5, 2021

According to forecasts, D2C sales will reach $21.25 It may be an excellent time for merchants to consider D2C channels now that this space isn’t going anywhere but up. D2C is also set to enjoy the lion’s share of eCommerce growth as consumer preferences shift toward convenience and ease of purchase.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 11, 2016

At Wenzel we watch the PMI ( Purchasing Managers Index ) and the USMTO (United States Manufacturing Technology Orders) numbers and compare them with our own performance. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) is an indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector. USMTO order for May 2016 were 18.2%

Manufacturing Procurement 120

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Not many companies have cracked this code. Operating Margin.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. The Company implemented SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) including the standard functionality of Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS), yet many planners also used Excel.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 2, 2015

by CJ Wehlage 2015 will be my 25 th year in the supply chain industry, mostly as a practitioner. Which brings me to today… I was planning out my 2015 supply chain conference schedule, and noticed the conference themes: Digital, Green, Internet of Things and Social. My 2015 Resolutions for the Supply Chain Industry.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Nicolas Vandeput is a supply chain data scientist who specializes in demand forecasting and inventory optimization. He has taught forecasting and inventory optimization to masters’ level students since 2014. I like to describe myself as somebody who is passionate about supply chains, demand forecasting, and inventory management.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems.

S&OP 60

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Last month, Lennox Residential was runner-up in the 2015 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Supply Chain Innovation competition, arguably the top supply chain award in North America. And last year Costa Express won the “Technology” category award at the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards , also a top honor.

Supply Chain Planning Software 120

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

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. Orbit Chart of VTech for the Period of 2006-2015 at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns .

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. This is a missionary buying market where taxonomies and technologies are not clear.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 15, 2015

the route to Consumer programme brings together the product flow from plant to retailer to consumer activities at point of purchase, all to service the consumer experience Diageo is trying to create. Ivanka Janssen, Director Global Sales Operational Excellence, Diageo. “We Our aim is to increase forecasting accuracy.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Multichannel selling allows customers to shop and purchase through whichever channel they prefer. Each channel offers a separate opportunity to interact with the brand and make purchases. When businesses are looking to buy from other businesses, the B2B model comes into play. What is multichannel selling? What is B2B eCommerce?

Manufacturing Procurement 60

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 19, 2016

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems.

S&OP 60

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RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The integrated system allows the buyers to base the central warehouse forecasts on the stores’ replenishment needs.”. – Matti Salmi, Purchasing Director, Musti Group Nordic. Musti knew it could improve its forecasting, replenishment, campaign management and, allocation. SKUs 12.000 active products. Turnover 179 M€.

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