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Four Reviews of DDMRP for Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

He is a great thinker on inventory planning and demand management.” My Take Many manufacturers are frustrated that their planning systems aren’t delivering the value they want and expect. If you are interested in DDMRP, you can find the blogs described above at the links below: Demand Driven: Can We Sidestep Religious Arguments?

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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. Will IoT design enable us to get demand signals from the products and sensory information from the entire set of physical infrastructure for planning? 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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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. They are impatient that they know more about pizza’s status for lunch before their zoom meeting than the inbound shipment status for their critical manufacturing run. Reflection. The supply chain career is new.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

With the downturn in the financial markets, the looming recession, and the fundamental shifts in demand—less travel and stay at home work policies—demand is changing. In the downturn of the market in 2017, it took the average supply chain six months to adjust, I expect alignment with this shift to be worse.

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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.

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Trust, But Verify

Supply Chain Shaman

When I joined the world of software as a business analyst from manufacturing, I was naive. The highest satisfaction rate for business users is in the area of warehouse management. Satisfaction with Sales and Operations Planning and Demand Management Processes. This high level of compensation drives extreme behavior.