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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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Editor’s Choice: The TikTok Effect on Demand Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Reports of demand spikes and shortages followed each of these instances, and it’s not just affecting food and beverage supply chains. After slime-making became an Instagram fad in 2016, Elmer’s Glue sales doubled.

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Is That Pikachu in the Dairy Aisle?

BlueYonder

As a merchant, buyer, store manager or small business owner, how do you capitalize on the opportunity to grow those sales? . However, it behooves those of us in supply chain and demand management to take notice of the impact a digital trend can have on our supply chains. Gotta go… Charizard is at the office door!

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Logility Buys Halo BI

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2016, total revenues for American Software were $113.9M. The American Software company in 2016 invested 9.9% Prior acquisitions include: Demand Management, (often termed Demand Solutions) supply chain planning for mid-market, 2004 for $9.5M Adapachain, 2016, integration, price undisclosed.

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JDA’s Project with SanDisk, a Western Digital Brand, Recognized for Its Impressive Supply Chain Transformation

BlueYonder

— land a spot on the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 for 2016. It doesn’t include the details of the supply chain transformation that occurred at SanDisk , now a Western Digital Brand, which was the project that secured JDA’s position on the 2016 list. However, the list alone, only tells a part of the story.

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How to Manage for Supply Chain Success During Major Weather Events

TMC

Our team included logistics, demand management, category management, and distribution from Delhaize, as well as West Coast Distributing and TMC’s Managed TMS® service. 1] Winter Storm Jonas ranks 4th worst among Northeast snowstorms, Associated Press, January 28, 2016. Brought a cross-functional team to the table.

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Trust, But Verify

Supply Chain Shaman

The highest satisfaction rate for business users is in the area of warehouse management. Satisfaction with Sales and Operations Planning and Demand Management Processes. Forecasting/Demand Planning. In essence, when it comes to planning, success is a flip of a coin. This is sad but true.