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ToolsGroup Acquires Mi9 Retail’s Demand Management Business

ToolsGroup

Mi9 Retail’s Demand Management business was formerly known as JustEnough Software. BOSTON (Nov 8, 2021) – ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced its acquisition of Mi9 Retail’s Demand Management business. Accel-KKR initially invested in ToolsGroup in 2018. .

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Demand Management Best Practices

Arkieva

Is demand management illusively complex? Here's a look at some best practices in demand management and characterization. Demand Management Best Practices was first posted on May 24, 2018 at 8:02 am.

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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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What About Them Apples?

Supply Chain Shaman

I do believe in demand planning, but most companies overstate forecast improvements. I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies. At that time, the demand processes were largely regional. Redefine Tactical Demand Planning.

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How Can You Seize Opportunity If You Cannot Manage Risk?

Supply Chain Shaman

While most leaders early to the subject think of risk as mitigation of events (in Figure 1 we share the most disruptive events from the period of 2013-2018), event mitigation is the easy part of risk management. .” It can include uncertainty, disruption or volatility. The tougher issues lie with complexity and volatility.

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

In the period of 2010-2018, within the chemical industry, margins fluctuated, largely driven by the price of crude, but inventory turns plummeted. Orbit Chart for the Period of 2010-2018 for Ecolab Showing the Trend at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns. Low volume inconsistent demand. inventory turns.

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Planning Optimized at Mach 2

Logility

Learnings from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Last month I, along with 2200 other supply chain professionals, attended the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix Arizona. In between the room-packed sessions, there was time for networking and catching up with old acquaintances.