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Supply Chain Disruption: What Will Happen with the Holidays?

QAD

This holiday season, the items consumers deck the halls with may depend on what they can find. The American Christmas Tree Association has flagged a potential shortage of artificial trees and other Christmas decor and is forecasting an up to 20% price increase. It’s not that the pandemic and other trends broke the global supply chain.

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Forecast Accuracy: Keep Your Demand Management Process Honest

Kinaxis

by Alexa Cheater Our partner Celestica recently published the following article, ‘ Are you keeping your demand management process honest? ’ Lange, Director of Demand Planning and S&OP Services at Celestica, examines forecast accuracy and the main components of a demand management measurement tool and process.

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Is Poor Inventory Performance Holding You Back?

Kinaxis

Make it Visible – You can’t improve it if you can’t measure it. by Alexa Cheater Our partner Celestica recently published the following article, ‘ Is your company being held hostage by poor inventory performance? ’ Poor inventory performance can create a significant obstacle to growth and profitability.

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Confused About What to Do? Try Prescriptive Analytics.

Enterra Insights

Business leaders are not immune to this curiosity; however, their methods for divining the future generally involves gathering smart people together to perform what-if analysis, identify trends, and produce forecasts. What you want from your data determines which kind of analytics you need to apply. ”[1].

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Push vs. Pull Strategies: Dealing with the On-Demand Market

Kinaxis

You can start the show… whenever you’re ready. Using an interesting analogy centered on the rapidly changing television industry, Rejano suggests push strategies are akin to old analog rabbit ears – you can watch the programs you’re interested in, but only when the network decides to air them. We explore the answer. Bullwhip Effect.

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Control Tower Success: Six Critical Steps to Ensure Your Project Thrives

Kinaxis

Outline and understand the overall objectives and key value drivers to ensure you are delivering a differentiating value from what the business uses today. Outline and understand the overall objectives and key value drivers to ensure you are delivering a differentiating value from what the business uses today.

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Artificial Intelligence In Inventory Management – How To Optimize Your Warehouse Inventory Management

ThroughPut

Inventory management is one of the many crucial areas of business and to play the field right, you need an inventory management system that ranges beyond basic reordering and stock monitoring to include everything from end-to-end production and business management to demand forecasting and lead time to analytics, reports, and more.