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

Logility

Then, as is now, there are certain critical components of building a strong supply chain planning foundation. As Glinda the Good Witch says in The Wizard of Oz, “It’s always best to start at the beginning.” ” In supply chain planning that equates to developing robust demand planning capabilities.

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Improving Sales forecasting after Covid

DynaSys

So, should I pick 2019 as the new reference, and delete 2020 from my data? My next S&OP run is coming, and I must find a solution to deal with sales forecasting after Covid. Making your process demand driven? In that case, Demand-driven MRP is the best example. It’s a given! in march 2020, it’s now 1.2)

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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 years Campbells strove to grow the soup category only to lose share in the soup category due to limited manufacturing capacity for the Swanson’s brand. Let’s call her Mary. The impact?

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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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Reflections on Integrated Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

As shown in Figure 1, users are more satisfied, the implementations are shorter and there is greater Return on Investment of solutions from Best-of-Breed solution providers—especially if the best-of-breed solution providers used are industry-specific. The use of best-of-breed planning technologies was small at 15%.

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Supply Chain Optimization Explained

ThroughPut

Powered by data analytics and advanced technologies, every stage of the supply chain can be critically analyzed, starting from procurement to distribution to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities. This opens up avenues to save procurement, transportation, inventory, and warehousing costs.