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E2open Releases 2024 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study: Lessons from the Pandemic for Future Resilience

E2open

The latest study highlights opportunities for businesses to strengthen resilience with artificial intelligence (AI)-driven demand sensing to optimize inventory, realize more value from planning investments, and better serve clients during disruptions of any size. Orlando, FL – October 2, 2024 – E2open Parent Holdings, Inc.

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Assess your Inventory Optimization Process with This Quiz

AIMMS

Inventory management has always been challenging. Too often, inventory is viewed from an aggregate position, likely driven by finance, who are concerned about working capital implications. Inventory should act as a buffer to adsorb variability and decouple the demand from the supply side of our supply chains. – Tweet this.

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Here’s How to Measure Inventory Health

ToolsGroup

Looking for a relatively quick way to measure inventory health? “It Even though we’re talking about inventory, we first have to understand customer buying behavior—and how that then translates into inventory requirements.” This is different from problematic ABC inventory classification.

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The Bumpy Road to Building Outside-in Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

Neil’s post in response to my post of Driving Value From Outside-in Planning : In her post, ‘Driving Value from Supply Chain Planning’, Lora Cecere provides great supply chain analysis and benchmarking for her supply chains to admire. I have lived through four hype cycles of outside-in processes.

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How Does Your Inventory Optimization Process Compare to Peers?

Take it now to see how your inventory optimization process scores and benchmark it against peers. Are You Betting on the Right Tools to Succeed in 2021? The 15-question assessment takes only 5 minutes to complete. Responses are aggregated and kept anonymous.

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ToolsGroup Recognized as a Clear Industry Leader by QKS Group Review for Redefining Probabilistic Forecasting and Powering Proactive Orchestration

ToolsGroup

“Its ability to translate probability distributions into real-time inventory and replenishment actions sets it apart from other vendors. For retailers seeking agility, resilience, and automation at scale, ToolsGroup represents the benchmark. It isn’t just forecasting demand; they’re orchestrating it.

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Five Reflections From Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking

Supply Chain Shaman

Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs or strategies against standard measurements. Today, I am going to share five insights that I have gleaned from our work on Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking. Benchmarking is not Benchmarking. Business Dictionary.com.

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Just In: Inventory Optimization Research

How are organizations performing on inventory optimization? Inventory: asset or liability? Although nobody could have predicted the degree of disruption most companies experienced last year, the pandemic did expose the many challenges organizations face when it comes to inventory. How can new technologies help your team improve?