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Heura Tackles Change Management: A Start-Up’s 6 Tips for Successful Technology Implementation and Adoption

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Heura® Foods was created in 2017 as a social mission-turned-business, focused on changing the current food system to one that fosters better health, nutrition, and sustainability. This level of communication, involving everybody, helped make it a team effort, not just a demand planning and IT initiative.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

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They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries. The sourcing centers shipped over 130,000,000 pounds of product last year. The implementation journey began in mid-2017.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 13-17, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Exclusive: Wal-Mart to tear down walls between store, online buying operations – sources (Reuters). And you’re doing demand planning with data that is old. By the time you get to the third week of the month, demand has already changed. Amazon’s delivery drones may drop packages via parachute (CNN).

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Building a Business Case for Improved Demand Forecasting

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“Identifying the value that can be created from an accurate forecast is what counts—not an accurate forecast," says Gartner in Win the Business Case for Investment to Improve Forecast Accuracy (Steve Steutermann, May 2017). Gartner makes three recommendations, and I will add a fourth of my own.

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How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

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Gartner has identified five stages of supply chain planning maturity and they say that 70-80% of companies plan to increase their supply chain planning (SCP) technology spend over the next two years to climb to the next level. They want higher-fidelity plans. Stage 4 firms want more responsiveness and agility.

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Global Supply Chain Recovery Dependent On A Vaccine

Supply Chain Shaman

Glaxo SmithKline introduced Shingrix in 2017, but shortages prevailed. They are seldom cross-functional to optimize source, make, and deliver together. Traditional demand planning based on historical order patterns is obsolete. My left arm hurts. I have been on a waiting list to get the shot for three years. The impact?

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Crisp powers demand planning at No Evil Foods

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After a hit debut at Expo West in 2017, they signed to a host of conventional retailers across the country, and their do-good, plant-powered products are now the second-fastest growing brand in the natural channel. The post Crisp powers demand planning at No Evil Foods appeared first on Crisp.