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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

It is important to benchmark forecast accuracy and similar supply chain metrics against your peers. If the reason can be determined, the model needs to be updated.For example, it may be that there was a spike in restaurant chains sales at restaurants in Phoenix metro area in the second week of February.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

The issue is that none of their IT investments in the last 10 years have moved the needle on operational metrics such as inventory levels, case fill rates, and other operational metrics. They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. Their words.

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Wanted: Supply Chain Architects!

Supply Chain Shaman

This analysis is ad-hoc is usually stimulated by the launch of a new product or a shift in capacity. I then pack my bags and scoot out the door to sign books and discuss the research completed for the S upply Chain Metrics That Matter book at the ISM event on Thursday, May 14th in Atlanta. Stage 2: All about Transportation.

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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

Kinaxis

I just returned from the highly engaging and inspiring Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The rise in computational power and storage capacity is making it practical for organizations to create a digital copy of their entire end-to-end supply chain in the cloud with all the data and knowledge of the business.

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What Retailers Learned About the Future at RILA Supply Chain Conference 2018

BlueYonder

As we gathered in Phoenix, Ariz. How will we overcome trucking capacity issues and driver shortages? Conversion is no longer the key metric to measure; in the future, success will rely on how well stores drive customer experience as measured by new, customer-centric metrics like dwell time, product interaction and favorites scoring.

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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

Ecosystem Software– Apache Pig, Hive, HBase, Phoenix, Zookeeper, Impala, Flume, Oozie and Storm. Inventories are high, and we have excessive ocean capacity. Truck load capacity is starting to surge for the holidays, but companies worry that market growth is stalled. Why Should you Care? Today, we live in volatile times.

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Omni-Channel Supply Chains Are Changing Everything You Ever Learned in School…

Supply Chain View from the Field

To give you an idea of what this is doing, the classic retail metrics, “same store sales” and “sales per square foot”, are no longer being reported by Macy’s department stores. Capacity for order fulfillment is a massive question in the omnichannel environment. ” This causes additional problems, however.