Demand Driven Technologies

MARCH 6, 2024

How do you manage job shop complexity? It involves manufacturing products, often complex ones, in a succession of manufacturing operations carried out on equipment specialized by technology. For example, we carry out a succession of machining, painting, and assembly operations, with detours through subcontracted operations.

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Demand Driven Technologies

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When you’re looking for IT systems to manage your supply chain, chances are you’ll be directed toward large, complex, and expensive systems. This trend dates back to the advent of ERPs in the 90s and is self-sustaining for an entire industry. If a system – an ERP, for example – is complex, it will require.

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Demand Driven Technologies

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the ERPs of most factories, at any given time, there are many production orders with an end date in the past. A production order in the past means: “We will produce this product last week” Spoiler alert: it won’t happen!… Unless you have the secret to going back in time, or a De Lorean.

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Demand Driven Technologies

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The graph below shows the production orders created for a line of strategic finished products in an aeronautics plant. These are production orders, not planned orders. Each bar represents one day. Blue bars are production orders released to production: the workshop has the right to work on them. The gray bars are orders created, but.

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Demand Driven Technologies

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In the early 90s, I was in charge of IT at a Philips industrial site and had the good fortune of being in charge of our IBM 38 replacement with the brand-new AS/400 implementation, which had come out in 1988. This was a huge step forward, including for the planet (which wasn’t our concern at.

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Demand Driven Technologies

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

One of the strengths of the DDMRP methodology is its ability to efficiently manage dynamic stock buffers. A DDMRP buffer with three zones (red/yellow/green) describes a replenishment loop that continuously adapts to changes in the pace of demand. The reorder point (top of yellow) increases during periods of high demand, and decreases when demand slows.

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Demand Driven Technologies

JANUARY 26, 2024

We were recently approached to tender by a company looking for a forecasting and procurement solution. The tender included all the buzzwords of the moment: AI, big data, and a system that could process millions of planning actions per day (sic). When we talk to this company to understand their context, we quickly realize that.

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Demand Driven Technologies

JANUARY 26, 2024

We were recently approached to tender by a company looking for a forecasting and procurement solution. The tender included all the buzzwords of the moment: AI, big data, and a system that could process millions of planning actions per day (sic). When we talk to this company to understand their context, we quickly realize that.

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Demand Driven Technologies

JANUARY 22, 2024

The planners and supplier chain managers have been scratching their heads for quite some time. How do you properly size buffers for inventory buffer management? Is there a magic and effective safety stock magic formula? Is the DDMRP logic of lead time and variability categories optimal? What should be the right lead time and variability.

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Demand Driven Technologies

JANUARY 11, 2024

When the world becomes more complex, a little nuance doesn’t hurt… A binary approach doesn’t usually solve problems. This adage also applies to the planning of our supply chains. Our management systems, by definition, are binary – running on computers more at ease with zeros and ones, true/false, than with progressive, nuanced gradation.

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Demand Driven Technologies

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The fact is, we have, and will continue to have, more and more destabilizing events for our supply chains.Your company may have a supply chain that was conceived in a different context to that of today. In the heyday of globalization, sourcing components from the other side of the world was the norm, and the.

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Demand Driven Technologies

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It took Brexit, the end of international law, a pandemic, a few near-global wars, and other vicissitudes for the Supply Chain planet to finally (almost) begin to free itself from the dictate: “Make accurate forecasts and you’ll ensure your company’s success by having the right product at the right time in the right place” The.

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Demand Driven Technologies

OCTOBER 26, 2023

When you mention a Kanban board to the younger generation, they immediately think of a visualization board for to-do / in-progress / completed tasks – and the Agile project management method. Just do a web search, and that’s what you’ll find… For veterans like me, a Kanban loop is a replenishment management method – when.

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Demand Driven Technologies

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Particularly in the supply chain, good performance is above all the result of good processes, followed by committed teams… To establish these processes and define a supply chain improvement path, you need a compass. In my professional experience, I have been successively responsible for the supply chain of several companies. From the very first weeks.

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Demand Driven Technologies

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Production planning means striking a balance between shop floor efficiency and the agility required to meet customer needs. Planners and schedulers are torn between the injunctions of customers, production, and finance – reducing lead times, serving new urgent orders, resources optimization, limiting the time spent on changeovers, stabilizing the schedule, not being under constant stress.

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Demand Driven Technologies

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I think supply chain managers see themselves as pragmatic, concrete people. Confronted with the reality of customers to deliver to, production resources to manage as best they can, and supplier relations to nurture, they should have both feet on the ground and some common sense. There’s really no room for magic in this field, is.

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Demand Driven Technologies

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Global companies often have “gas plant” supply chains. For all sorts of reasons – historical, internal politics, IT, etc. – everything seems to have been done to make things more complex. Organizations are fragmented. Of course, if you’re a global corporation, you need to structure teams into manageable entities, so it’s necessary to articulate business.

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Demand Driven Technologies

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In one of my first professional experiences, at the end of the 80s, I was in charge of the methods team at an industrial site. Our team included specialists in time studies, who had applied MTM (Methods Time Measurement) methods to best evaluate routings. In particular, these routings were used to define productivity targets. We.

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Demand Driven Technologies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Our companies operate according to plans. We draw up forecasts, draw up budgets, formalize a production program, and allocate our resources to execute this plan. MRP2 logic is firmly rooted in this principle: business plan, S&OP, master production schedule, capacity and bottleneck network, everything follows and cascades in a hierarchical and deterministic manner, with plans.

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Demand Driven Technologies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

At our French user conference in June 2023, our partner DFYA reminded us that we’re constantly making a huge number of decisions. One figure put forward is 35,000 decisions per day for an adult human. If you do an Internet search on the number of decisions per day, Google will indeed give you 35,000. However, the.

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Demand Driven Technologies

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Today we announce the partnership between Demand Driven Technologies, specialists in DDMRP, and SKU Science, specialists in demand planning. What are the benefits of this collaboration for supply chain professionals? With the need for speed, agility, and resilience, the supply chain has become the beating heart of modern businesses, playing a crucial role in determining.

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Demand Driven Technologies

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

[Atlanta, GA – 9/5/2023 ] – Demand Driven Technologies, an emerging leader in supply chain management solutions, is thrilled to announce its strategic partnership with SKU Science, a frontrunner in fast and effective demand planning and forecasting. This collaboration brings together two industry-leading innovators to empower businesses with unparalleled agility and resilience in their supply.

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Demand Driven Technologies

JUNE 22, 2023

Implicitly, when we think to pull flow, Kanban, for example, we think of short lead time. We trigger the next supply to renew consumption, so this implies a rapid reaction time, doesn’t it? On the other hand, for components with long lead times – say, for example, an item with a replenishment lead time of.

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Demand Driven Technologies

JUNE 15, 2023

“Transformation” is the buzzword of the moment. “Digital” transformation, “Supply Chain” transformation, “Demand Driven” transformation, “Demand Driven Digital Supply Chain” transformation – let’s go for it!… ASCM is even announcing a new APICS CTSC training and certification course: Certified in Transformation for Supply Chain CTSC Exam Content Manual (ascm.org).

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Demand Driven Technologies

JUNE 8, 2023

Let’s face it. As an avid Lean practitioner, I have an instinctive aversion to batch sizes. For a long time, I thought that the ideal would be that when a consumer needs something, it should be manufactured and made available, by the unit, almost immediately.

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Demand Driven Technologies

JUNE 1, 2023

In the plants I worked in, I started orchestrating S&OP processes in the late 80s/early 90s. I always considered that it should be a monthly process – without necessarily asking too many questions. In a factory, it’s natural to have reviews for each shift, daily, weekly, and monthly. A yearly budget, possibly a quarterly review.

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Demand Driven Technologies

MAY 25, 2023

To make use of forecasts in a conventional MRP system, you generate supply orders, called planned orders, that align perfectly with the timing of these forecasts. The example below is a consumer item – a drink. Sales of this item are driven by seasonality and promotions. Understanding Seasonality and Promotions When analyzing the sales of.

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Demand Driven Technologies

MAY 11, 2023

In a factory, the relationship between Supply Chain and Quality teams can be tumultuous… Quality hold manufacturing batches – put on hold for inspection or rework – queues on key test equipment, release times, all this generates waiting, delays, when we are already in a hurry… Everyone agrees we must ensure that we deliver defect-free.

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Demand Driven Technologies

MAY 4, 2023

Do you know how minimum orders, minimum production releases, and transfer batches affect your distribution network? As a supply chain professional, it’s essential to understand the impact of lot sizes on your inventory, lead times, and ability to deliver to your customers. In this article, we’ll explore how to visualize the impact and adapt to.

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Demand Driven Technologies

APRIL 28, 2023

We know that the future is uncertain. Actual demand will differ from forecasts. Supplies and production will be subject to uncertainty. Therefore, projecting inventory carries significant uncertainty – as we described in this article, projected inventory is an illusion. In today’s uncertain business environment, projecting inventory is a challenging task.

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Demand Driven Technologies

APRIL 20, 2023

There is sometimes confusion when we talk about pull flow. When it comes to pull flow, there is often confusion with just-in-time supply chain management. In this article, we’ll define pull flow and just-in-time and explain the difference between the two. We’ll also discuss the importance of implementing buffers in a pull flow model to.

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Demand Driven Technologies

APRIL 6, 2023

Do you know the Gartner Hype Cycle? The Gartner Hype Cycle is a widely recognized concept that describes the panorama of technology and IT innovations in a field. It takes into account the hype generated by these technologies and their effectiveness and results for companies that adopt them. This curve, quite similar to the Kubler-Ross.

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Demand Driven Technologies

MARCH 30, 2023

Decouple ERP, Best of Breed and Low Code Digitizing the management of the supply chain is on the agenda of companies. By which end to take the subject, which functional domains to focus on, and which technologies to use, everything gets complicated when trying to start the process. There is a plethora of solutions on.

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Demand Driven Technologies

MARCH 23, 2023

We sometimes arrive at Supply Chain jobs in a roundabout way. Initial training in Supply Chain has developed over the last few years, but very often the actors of the supply chain teams – planners, managers, or directors – have different initial training.

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Demand Driven Technologies

MARCH 16, 2023

This is often the promise of APS systems: to take into account constraints – capacity, material supply, grouping campaigns, and optimizing costs. AUTOMATICALLY! Depending on the capacity and shift pattern of each piece of equipment, depending on the day we should receive that bloody critical missing component, we determine how we will be able to.

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Demand Driven Technologies

MARCH 13, 2023

Being Demand Driven means continuously adapting to the evolution of actual demand. Yes, but… What is this real demand? Let’s imagine. You are in charge of machining for company A. The parts you machine then go to surface treatment, some of which are subcontracted, and some of which will come back for a second machining.

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Demand Driven Technologies

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

El mundo cambia rápidamente, las crisis se suceden, las oportunidades deben aprovecharse con rapidez: en un entorno VUCA, las empresas necesitan agilidad, adaptación continua y resiliencia. Tras los terremotos de los últimos años, parece que el tema ya no es objeto de debate, al menos en la comunidad de la cadena de suministro. Y, sin.

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