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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

Given your expertise, I’d love to hear what alternatives you recommend for better demand forecasting and real-time visibility beyond what’s commonly adopted today.” I know that your primary focus is procurement. Unfortunately, the industry is full of a lot of Anna(s) and her friends, the doubting Thomas (s).

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Shouldn’t GenAI Mean New Gen?

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s Start With Clear Definitions My inbox is full. Let’s have fun! Let’s start with the definitions: Graph AI uses Machine Learning on graph-based technology to understand the relationships between variables to drive insights. Graph technology leverages graph structures to represent and store data.

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Dealing With The Supply Chain Gloppy Mess

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s look at some of the market trends to understand the severity: Lumber prices skyrocketed 60% in the last six months. For example, Campbells Soup is struggling to keep up with the demand for soup, potato chips, and cookies. Similarly, demand planning based on order history is not equal to the challenge.

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What Makes a Mature Planning Organization? (Part 2)

Supply Chain Shaman

For clarity, the definitions are: -Strategic Planning: The frequency is either monthly or quarterly and the focus is on long-term planning. It combines decisions across sell, deliver, make and source processes to drive value based outcomes. Tactical Planning: This process is usually monthly. I hope that this helps.

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Fueling Success: Career in Supply Chain Guide

SCMDOJO

It’s a fast-paced, evolving industry that has a lot of challenges, but also plenty of rewards, including a potentially lucrative income. We enable them by providing high-quality supply chain on-demand courses, guides, best practices, tools, and mentoring from industry experts. It is the era of digitalization.

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Laying the Foundation for Advanced Supply Chain Planning Capabilities in the Food and Beverage Industry

Logility

As a former Director of Supply Chain Management for a large multi-channel food manufacturer I experienced first-hand the variety of challenging problems faced by supply chain planners in the unforgiving F&B industry. Then, as is now, there are certain critical components of building a strong supply chain planning foundation.

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A Treatise on Dogs That Do Not Hunt

Supply Chain Shaman

As an old gal attending multiple conferences (more than I would like at times), I have listened to speakers waft eloquently about the value of concepts like networks, big data, industry 4.0, I could write a blog about each story, but let’s save that for coffee.) and digital supply chains. I don’t think so.