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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Re-implement demand planning, trade promotion management, and revenue/price management together to improve the baseline demand signal. Lessons Learned. The reason?

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What is Supply Chain Planning Software and How Can it be Used Effectively? Part 1

DELMIA Quintiq

Referring back to the planning topics contained within the ASCM definition, each one is covered with a fully integrated planning suite including: Demand planning Often considered the gateway to improvements in supply chain planning, demand planning has the objective to better predict the demand in the market place.

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Please Tell Me HOW

Supply Chain Shaman

For more on these differences, reference the book that I co-authored, Bricks Matter. Focus less on sales and marketing forecasting and build your demand plan on attribute-based models based on channel data outside-in. This will often mean the reimplementation of demand planning. Plan for the Internet of Things.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 13-17, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Now, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: E2open and Steelwedge Join Forces to Deliver Collaborative Sales & Operations Planning Across Multi-Enterprise Business Networks. DB Schenker Takes $25 Million Stake in Online Freight Booking Platform uShip (WSJ – sub.

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Is Inventory Waste or an Asset?

Supply Chain Shaman

While forecast accuracy, if used well, can reduce safety stock, what I find in the study of the global multi-national is the rise of cycle stock due to increased item complexity, and the increase of in transit inventories due to longer freight lanes and longer cycles in ocean transportation. Embracing demand and supply volatility is critical.

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Seeing Supply Chain Visibility through Different Lenses

Bristlecone

based freight forwarder, who moved goods like tiles, he emphasized how important it is for his business to be able to predict delivery of goods from the port to the factory warehouse. Finally, the pandemic has highlighted the ineffectiveness of traditional demand planning models. Recently, in a conversation with a leading U.S.-based

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What Exactly Is Supply Chain Management? 10 Different Definitions!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The phrase “Supply Chain Management” was originally coined by Keith Oliver in 1982 and subsequently gained increasing popularity as its usage was proliferated in books and language. SCM #SupplyChain #Technology #Logistics #Freight #Purchasing #Procurement #Business. It was at that time I began my career.