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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

Unleashed

Demand forecasting has gained increasing importance over the last few years. We met with five supply chain experts to discuss how crucial demand forecasting is for mitigating risk, and what businesses can do to improve forecast accuracy. There must be an element of realism.”

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What If You Could Take The Guesswork Out Of Forecast Planning? Guest Post from Osgood Vogler

Kinaxis

by Melissa Clow Our partner Celestica recently published the following article, ‘What If You Could Take The Guesswork Out Of Forecast Planning?’. The factors which impact demand management and forecasting are nearly endless. In this scenario, a forecast bias was created and it led to an order of 200 additional widgets.

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How to Plan for Common Disruptors in Ocean Freight

Talking Logistics

Red: Space is extremely tight and forecasting is imperative. Look ahead at your 3-month forecasts. The 9 th annual BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit is being held in Xiamen September 3-5, 2017 (the summit location rotates between its member countries). BRICS summit.

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How to boost relationships between shippers and 3PLs

DELMIA Quintiq

Additionally, in order to remain competitive, 3PLs need to embrace innovation – big data and resource analytics – and to know how to make the best out of such information for demand planning and forecasting. Frank Tinschert heads the Logistics Business Unit in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

Now supply chain professionals have another different set of challenges on how to get product to the entire country where consumer-oriented outlets (i.e. Read the full Cipla Medpro case study on delivering medicines in Africa. fast food or retail) are rapidly expanding. Infrastructure is the most often mentioned challenge.

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Analyzing Supply Chain Risk

Enterra Insights

A decade ago, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) wrote, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ 2] His warning begs the question: How can supply chain risk managers wake up? VUCA conditions may be intensifying, but they are not new.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

The cost was 60% more in than average; but even more unfortunate, they never got a good understanding of how to use the planning system. Bias and error are selectively measured and the organization is unclear on how to improve demand processes. Use of Forecast-value Add techniques to improve the accuracy of the forecast.