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18 Ways to Get SALES Involved in Demand Planning

Silvon Software

Working together to incorporate all this information into the sales forecast and demand plan can ensure that everyone is prepared for demand fluctuations. Unfortunately, though, some sales organizations—or at least some sales professionals—are reluctant to engage in the demand planning and S&OP process. Use e-mail alerts.

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Insight from Applied Statisticians for Forecasting: Is It Worth the Effort and the Mirage of Random Variation

Arkieva

In this blog, we will illustrate through an example of these potential pitfalls (unanchored, random variation, and narrow metrics) and potential negative impact on a firm. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at hyeboah@arkieva.com.

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10 Best Inventory Book for All Experience Levels

Supply Chain Opz

In this article, we will show you 10 best inventory book that readers at all levels can learn from. Inventory Management Overview Many people think inventory management is a clerical task but they're absolutely wrong. What inventory book can help you to cut inventory costs?

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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?’. In fact, it is common for supply chain management executives to cite “planning errors” as the greatest obstacle they face to achieving their goals and objectives.

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Adventures in Forecasting in the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Irregular demand, as a consequence of changing customer requirements, now makes operating in new and volatile emerging markets essential to business growth. Then, if you add additional requirements around new product introductions as product life-cycles shorten, the need for effective demand management skills becomes even more complex.

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Analytics and S&OP: What is Analytics, and how to spot Buzzwords

Arkieva

(We might use “availability in Excel directly or with Add-ons” as an “age metric’.). In credit cards, the role of the data scientist is to find the story in the data (see Dr. Perlich’s article “ What’s a ‘Data Scientist’ Anyway? ”). In the list of topics above and most articles – there is no mention of S&OP!

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. If E2open is successful in this acquisition strategy, your role in the extended supply chain will diminish unless you create a many-to-many data model and invest in demand management.