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My Take: Let’s Admit Seven Demand Management Mistakes of the Last Decade

Supply Chain Shaman

After two decades of process and technology refinement, excellence in demand management still eludes supply chain teams. Supply Chain Management (SCM) concepts are now thirty-years old. The first use of the term supply chain management in the commercial sector was in 1982. 6 ) 80% Is Good Enough.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management. Rubikloud, with advanced analytics for trade promotions, price, and assortment, positions new solution techniques with artificial intelligence for traditional data model constructs for modeling.

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Inventory Management Best Practices for Tech Companies: Knowledgeable Insights by ModusLink

ModusLink Corporation

Beyond physical control, inventory management provides essential data and insights that enable informed decision-making in areas such as procurement and stock replenishment. It plays a vital role in maintaining the right quantity of products on hand to meet customer demands while avoiding overstocking or stockouts.

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Inventory Management Best Practices for Tech Companies: Knowledgeable Insights by ModusLink

ModusLink Corporation

Beyond physical control, inventory management provides essential data and insights that enable informed decision-making in areas such as procurement and stock replenishment. It plays a vital role in maintaining the right quantity of products on hand to meet customer demands while avoiding overstocking or stockouts.

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Inventory Management Best Practices for Tech Companies: Knowledgeable Insights by ModusLink

ModusLink Corporation

Beyond physical control, inventory management provides essential data and insights that enable informed decision-making in areas such as procurement and stock replenishment. It plays a vital role in maintaining the right quantity of products on hand to meet customer demands while avoiding overstocking or stockouts.

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

The class discovers the current blackholes of the supply chain (direct procurement and contract manufacturing. Revenue management is siloed and distinct from demand management, while Transportation Management (TMS) has nothing in common with Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP).

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Beyond Spend Analytics: Supplier Life Cycle Data

Supply Chain View from the Field

We recently had a senior data analytics professional from a large financial services organization speak in my MBA Supply Chain relationships class. The scope of the datasets his team was working on was limited to supply management, but the sheer volume of data was staggering in its complexity and fragmentation.