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

Kinaxis

The CEO went on to imply that losing sales was preferable to building excess inventory. Shouldn’t it be ok to build inventory in anticipation of demand surges, and then apply promotions to work through the excess? Was he concerned about brand image, as Goldman Sachs implied about Nike in 2017?

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Four Reviews of DDMRP for Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

However, she disagrees with DDMRP’s principles of forecasting and the use of demand sensing technologies. She says she believes DDMRP “buffers are only a piece of the answer” and that “forecasting plays a vital role in determining the rules for inventory buffers.” He is a great thinker on inventory planning and demand management.”

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

My caution is not so fast… 95% of companies are not making progress at the intersection of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and asset strategies. Here I show orbit chart comparisons at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2006-2017. This is especially true for the Titans.

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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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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

In Figure 1, we show the aggregate trend of the chemical industry in an orbit chart format showing year-over-year results at the intersection of two metrics operating margin and inventory turns. In the period of 2010-2018, within the chemical industry, margins fluctuated, largely driven by the price of crude, but inventory turns plummeted.

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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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How Can You Seize Opportunity If You Cannot Manage Risk?

Supply Chain Shaman

Energizer and Unilever are driving the fastest rates of improvement and Clorox and P&G improvement rates are the slowest on the Metrics That Matter of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)). Average Performance Metrics for Consumer Nondurable Industry for the Period of 2010-2017.