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Definitions Matter

Supply Chain Shaman

I just went live this year with a Fortune 25 company, and their factories book against their orders online. ” Traditional View What does end-to-end planning mean? Forecast consumption into supply planning based on rules (rules-based-consumption). Matching demand and supply in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).

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Driving An Octopus

Supply Chain Shaman

The current taxonomy (or frame/models) for the engines does not address the issues of the global multinational manufacturing company. In the Global Supply Chain, there are More Constraints To Address Than Just Manufacturing. Companies need a planning solution to analyze the trade-offs between make, source, and deliver.

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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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AI-powered Demand Planning for Building Materials and Cement Industry: How To Balance Supply & Demand

ThroughPut

While the construction industry itself poses some unique challenges in supply chains across the world, cement manufacturing comes with its own diverse set of differentiators like the ones mentioned below: Top unique challenges of cement industry. However, escalated demands necessitate workforce evaluation and exaggeration.

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Learning to Speak the Language of Demand

Supply Chain Shaman

In the traditional organization, some demand processes are sales-driven. <In fact, so much so that I wrote a book about it.> Let’s start with these: Demand Sensing: The reduction of time to sense purchase and channel takeaway. Demand sensing is a process, automated by technology, that reduces demand latency.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Focus is on a feasible plan. Management and planning of the entire network against a value network strategy. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Manufacturing.

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Nokia’s Johannes Giloth about bringing demand planning to board level

Supply Chain Movement

Nokia is currently preparing for another major change, its purchase of Alcatel-Lucent, which is expected to close in Q1 2016. As senior vice president operations, I am the business owner of all operations from demand planning to execution, procurement to manufacturing. By Helen Armstrong. It’s a one-stop shop.”.