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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. The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. The Palantir approach is not a good fit for the supply chain management market. The supply chain career is new.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

The company has a sourcing team that vets the beans. Thus, in addition to their roasting plant with an inbound warehouse attached to it, and a warehouse for outbound finished goods in nearby Oakland, the company also has 700 reps that source their product from roughly 100 small DSD warehouses across the nation.

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Demand Optimization Maturity Curve

Logility

IRI – Syndicated Data Source. DSR – Demand Signal Repository. MVDM – Multi-Variate Demand Management. Source: Logility, Inc. The Demand Optimization Maturity Curve starts at level (1) Naïve Forecasting, the lowest level of maturity, and ends at level (5) Demand Optimization, the highest level of maturity.

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

” Or alternatively, “Is there data that could be sourced to help?” Low volume inconsistent demand. Use this data to understand demand predictability. If demand error is extremely high, traditional demand management techniques are of limited value. As a group, we drill into root issues.

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Want to Succeed at a Large Firm? Become an Entrepreneur

Logistics Viewpoints

Then Jabil handles the sourcing and manufacturing of those products. They are sourcing from over 27,000 suppliers. It was agreed that Jabil would use an advanced planning solution to determine all the reorder points, engage in inventory optimization, and create a more strategic approach to demand management. In 2019, Ms.

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Essilor – The secret of a global & robust S&OP process

DynaSys

Zone’s demand management team entered the volumes with different “ what if ” scenarios in several SpreadSheets “ what if we lost 30%, or 40% or even 50%… of the sales versus 2019 ”. We asked Plants managers to enter every Monday what production lines will be locked and which one can be reopened.

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The Absolut Company: Balancing Service and Inventory Creates a Delicious Mix

ToolsGroup

“The spirits maker says demand-planning software is helping improve its distribution to an increasingly complicated international market marked by the proliferation of products aimed at shifting consumer tastes. 1 The Wall Street Journal “Absolut Mixes Machine Learning Into Its Spirits Supply Chain”, Paul Page, May 9, 2019.