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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite supply chain leaders has a stack of Palantir reports in black binders on his desk. The Palantir approach is not a good fit for the supply chain management market. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management.

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Analytics and S&OP: What is Analytics, and how to spot Buzzwords

Arkieva

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to chemicals to respond to emerging situations intelligently. To learn more, please read my previous blog ‘ A Guide to Supply Chain Management: Making Intuition More Valuable ’. What is analytics?

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

Almost two decades of reporting. For example, Monster Beverages beats Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, while Celanese outperforms Dow Chemical. Companies that operate separate systems for revenue management and demand management create a risk in understanding market trends and gauging price elasticity quickly.

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Yowza! A Nine-Step Decision Process to Help Guide Supply Chain Planning Selection

Supply Chain Shaman

They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets. Sadly, only 7% of companies test before purchase. ” There is a belief that the purchase from an ERP solution provider improves integration.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

Many organizations will play the shell game of reporting forecast error so that the numbers look better: either calculating the forecast at a higher level in the forecast hierarchy (not at the item level) or reporting the data as a Weighted Mean Absolute Error. This gives supply chain leaders a false sense of security.

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ThroughPut Inc. Announces Partnership with project44 to Unleash AI-Powered Supply Chain Capacity and Profitability?

ThroughPut

The partnership will empower mutual customers to not only plan logistics fulfillment effectively and efficiently, but also to forecast demand accurately with AI-powered insights and recommendations for rapid supply chain revenue rationalization. Learn more at project44.com.

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Construction inventory management solution for contractors

EMERGE App

For inventory management, in particular, we’ve seen how cloud apps such as EMERGE are equally at home managing the inventory of artisanal handmade jewelry, exotic car parts, and even industrial chemicals. Maintaining up-to-date information, including timelines, material costs, and labor expenses, is essential in any business.