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Four Reviews of DDMRP for Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

He is a great thinker on inventory planning and demand management.” If you are interested in DDMRP, you can find the blogs described above at the links below: Demand Driven: Can We Sidestep Religious Arguments? by Lora Cecere, May 5, 2017. DDMRP – A Repackaging of Lean and JIT by Shaun Snapp, September 19, 2017.

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Apparel and footwear: At what point is missed sales better than excess inventory?

Kinaxis

Was he concerned about brand image, as Goldman Sachs implied about Nike in 2017? For a company operating at almost 52 percent gross margin, that’s not an insignificant amount. The CEO went on to imply that losing sales was preferable to building excess inventory. percent drop in stock price the following day.

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

Kinaxis

I find that most have a similar opening – 30 billion or so devices will be connected by 2017 and more “things” will be connected than human beings on the earth. Demand management General News Inventory management Sales and operations planning (S&OP) Supply chain management' What do you think?

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Achieving Significant Transportation Savings through Improved Demand Forecasting

Logistics Viewpoints

When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. In 2017, Pinnacle Propane was acquired by a Dutch company, SHV Energy. Pinnacle Propane Delivery to a Farm. Over the years, Pinnacle Propane expanded across the U.S.

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

Here I show orbit chart comparisons at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2006-2017. Pepsico has ceded profitability for inventory turns while Coca-Cola is at the same position in 2017 that the company was in 2006. For this story, I have grouped like competitors together. Not much has changed.

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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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Is your supply chain planning ready for the “Experience Economy”?

ToolsGroup

Gartner says we are entering what they call the ‘Experience Economy”, where personalization, speed, agility and the ability to predict consumer trends before they happen will separate the winners from losers ( Aspire, Challenge and Transform in a Disruptive World , 27 September 2017). Be careful not to wait. There will be winners and losers.