ThroughPut

MAY 27, 2022

Demand planners have to be ready to adapt instantaneously or risk losing their market position – or, worse, market share. Therefore, there is a need for real-time planning that not only offers a clear line of sight into all relevant internal and external influencers of demand, but also helps anticipate and drive it.

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ThroughPut

AUGUST 24, 2021

Earlier in the day, demand planning was a guessing game that relied more on intuition, instinct, and inclination. But with the advent of the information economy and Artificial Intelligence (AI), this process became data-driven. The unavailability of raw materials and changing consumer patterns heavily impacted demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Narrow AI is goal-orientated Artificial Intelligence designed to solve specific issues, such as determining stock levels or planning promotions based on events or weather. We have this today in most supply chain planning solutions. I don’t think that the answer is faster planning or better engines.

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Over the past 18 months, companies in the APAC region, like many areas across the globe, have faced volatility and disruption across their supply chains. As a result, many companies are left trying to quantify the effects that supply chain disruptions will have on their business and react in ways that will minimize the financial impact. .

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 2, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post from end-to- end global supply chain services company, Flash Global. The company focuses on high tech industries such as telecome , data storage, data centers, bio-medicine, and any company who needs supply chain visibility and proactive supply chain services for replacement parts and more.

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Logility

MAY 12, 2020

As a former Director of Supply Chain Management for a multi-national, multi-channel food manufacturer, I experienced first-hand the variety of challenging problems faced by supply chain planners in the unforgiving Food and Beverage Industry. As the first person with a title of supply chain management at a $2.5B

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

ARC is getting ready for our Supply Chain Forum on February 16 th and 17 th. End users – supply chain practitioners working for manufacturers, distributors, or retailers – can attend for free. A more granular model means better planning – planning that more fully reflects the constraints that exist in these supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

For the first in seven years, I was not heads-down preparing for The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Companies are drowning in data and short on insights. Pre-pandemic only 30% of supply chain leaders were satisfied with their supply chains, and during the pandemic, business leader satisfaction is falling precipitously.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 20, 2023

In this open letter, I beg you not to layer general AI over conventional supply chain planning. My goal is to write weekly, but recently my energy was zapped teaching a class of 90 people the concepts of outside-in planning processes. (I We Have End-to-End Planning. Why am I so passionate about this? My takeaway?

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Logility

JANUARY 3, 2019

The field of supply chain planning is changing quickly with the need to reduce costs to meet corporate objections, increase speed to meet customer expectations, plan for changing regulations and trade tariffs, while struggling to find and retain the best talent to lead the transformation to digital and AI enabled capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Let me start by saying that t he process is not a panacea to solve all supply chain ills. Clear operating strategy and definition of supply chain excellence across plan, source, make and deliver. Clear operating strategy and definition of supply chain excellence across plan, source, make and deliver. Drives Value.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Many large enterprises use one form or another of a supply chain application to help manage their supply chains. Supply chain vendors have been touting their investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the last several years. Artificial intelligence is beginning to be used to update the data.

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Logility

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Today’s life sciences supply chain is constantly changing as complex market forces including regulations, advances in technology, continued globalization, and ever-increasing customer demands combine to create new challenges. Read more in the eBook: 5 Tips to Take Your Life Sciences Supply Chain Digital ).

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supply chain planning and the results on user satisfaction. However, in the polling data in the APICS webinar, we found that over 70% of the respondents had deployed solutions from the ERP-expansionists (either SAP or Oracle). The results confound me. Background.

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Logility

AUGUST 22, 2018

To survive in today’s highly competitive global environment, manufacturers need to piece together the many parts of the supply chain puzzle to lay the foundation for more mature capabilities in the future. An estimated, 75% of available supply chain data originates from outside the ERP system. What’s next?

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ThroughPut

MAY 2, 2022

What is the significance of real-time supply chain planning? Despite the most meticulous planning, a majority of the major “incidents” in today’s global supply chain occur in the moment – meaning that there’s little scope for advance or even just enough of a heads-up or warning.

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Logility

AUGUST 23, 2018

To survive in today’s highly competitive global environment, manufacturers need to piece together the many parts of the supply chain puzzle to lay the foundation for more mature capabilities in the future. An estimated, 75% of available supply chain data originates from outside the ERP system. What’s next?

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 30, 2023

IBP framework IBP best practices by o9 solutions Summary: IBP software by o9 solutions Download IBP resources Integrated Business Planning is a best-practice process that aligns Commercial, Financial and Supply Chain activities. In short: your integrated business planning process (IBP process) will never be the same.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

Yesterday, I finished a post on supply chain planning maturity. A client had asked me, “How do I know if we have a mature supply chain planning organization?” ” Planning leadership is a problem for most organizations. General Mills is much better at planning than Kellogg. Many are not.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

While reading more about his theory, I realized that best performing supply chain systems also possess certain hierarchical needs. Similarly to a human being’s need of self-actualization, supply chain systems are designed to achieve high service levels while being cognizant of competing pressures such as demand volatility, competition, etc.

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o9 Solutions

APRIL 11, 2023

Integrated Business Planning is a best-practice process that aligns Commercial, Financial and Supply Chain activities. In short: your integrated business planning process (IBP process) will never be the same. In short: your integrated business planning process (IBP process) will never be the same. Why is IBP important?

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It also takes a supply chain that contributes to the ingenuity and innovation required to conquer today’s health issues and provides those breakthroughs in perfect and compliant condition. Unfortunately, supply chain complexity could be holding the industry back. Discovering Opportunities for Change with Digital Supply Chain Solutions.

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o9 Solutions

APRIL 11, 2023

Integrated Business Planning is a best-practice process that aligns Commercial, Financial and Supply Chain activities. In short: your integrated business planning process (IBP process) will never be the same. In short: your integrated business planning process (IBP process) will never be the same. Why is IBP important?

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Logility

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

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. The F&B supply chain is complex. As the first person with a title of supply chain management at a $2.5B

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 7, 2016

Source: Algorithmic Supply Chain Planning: The Future of SCP , Amber Salley, May 2016. The analyst firm says algorithms “are now feasting on the wealth of data becoming available, leveraging the huge computing resources in the cloud and becoming a pivotal source of competitive differentiation.”

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 4, 2023

If you’re in the business world, you’re probably always looking for ways to streamline your supply chain operations. Luckily, supply chain analytics is here to help! But like any new technology, there are hurdles to overcome when implementing supply chain analytics. Key Takeaways What is Supply Chain Analytics?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 25, 2021

Word Misappropriation In Supply Chain. I struggle day-to-day with the misappropriation of words in the building of an effective supply chain. A recent client wanted an end-to-end supply chain redefinition with a control tower to improve visibility through integrated processes. A supply chain will never be agile and efficient.

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BlueYonder

MAY 15, 2017

Social, news, weather and events, also referred to as ‘ SNEW ,’ ‘big data’, ‘digitization,’ whatever you want to call it, it’s here and not going anywhere anytime soon. Optimizing the Customer Experience with Weather Intelligence and Demand Planning. Contact JDA today to learn more.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Over my 25+ year supply chain career I have worked for several distribution-intensive companies and every single one of them had a focus on improving forecast accuracy. Achieving a high SKU level forecast accuracy is a top goal for supply chain planning teams regardless of industry, size, location, etc.

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Logility

MARCH 6, 2020

Stakeholders who care about forecasting in demand planning care about accuracy, and usually will not accept a new forecasting method unless it is rigorously validated against known forecasting benchmarks with proven accuracy. Greed for more data. Rapid adaptation to change and supply chain disruption. Business Impact.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

If this challenging past year has taught us one thing, it is the value of connections–not only in our lives, but in supply chains. Indeed, when customers contact us for planning support through our COVID-19 Action Center, they are usually grappling with similar supply chain disruptions–or disconnections. .

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ThroughPut

MAY 31, 2024

The outlook becomes even grimmer when considering the current methods of demand planning and forecasting in retail. Most retailers’ strategies are far from a sophisticated, data-driven approach. Is AI-based Demand Planning & Forecasting in the Retail Industry the Answer?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 26, 2023

The basic frame of supply chain planning–functional taxonomies for optimization on a relational database–must be redesigned before supply chain leaders can reap the benefit of deep learning, neural networks, and evolving forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI). ” I don’t think so. Stay tuned.

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ThroughPut

MAY 16, 2024

In the context of supply chains particularly, agility is what can save the day in the midst of all those challenges. However, responding to evolving market demands can seem almost impossible with legacy systems, siloed data and/or manually-driven human-intuition-based processes. What is Supply Chain Optimization?

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

by CJ Wehlage What would you say is the next great disruption coming to our supply chain world? However, there’s one great disruption already occurring, which has yet to truly “touch” supply chain. Philip Evans shares how today’s consumer is sharing a colossal amount of data to come to a buying decision. It’s the consumer.

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BlueYonder

MAY 15, 2017

Social, news, weather and events, also referred to as ‘ SNEW ,’ ‘big data’, ‘digitization,’ whatever you want to call it, it’s here and not going anywhere anytime soon. Optimizing the Customer Experience with Weather Intelligence and Demand Planning. Contact JDA today to learn more.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 12, 2016

So as a leader in applying machine learning in supply chain planning, we thought it would be interesting to consider what the future of AI means to supply chain planning. quintillion bytes of data daily, 80% of it unstructured and “invisible to current technology.” IBM says we now produce more than 2.5

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