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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies that operate separate systems for revenue management and demand management create a risk in understanding market trends and gauging price elasticity quickly. With the increase in product complexity, many companies have demand latency longer than supplier lead time. Is this success? I don’t think so.

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Indiana Jones and the supply chain bullwhip effect

Kinaxis

A small shift in customer demand essentially cracks the whip, and the further a supplier is from the demand, the more significant the impact, which inevitably leads to increasing swings in inventory for suppliers. For comparison: A commercial jet at takeoff comes in at 140 dBA. How ironic would that be? m (329 ft 7.5

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

The Palantir approach is not a good fit for the supply chain management market. The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management. Traditional demand shaping technologies are inside-out focused on order patterns and do not drive baseline insights across demand management.

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Demand Forecasting in an Inflationary, Supply-Constrained, Semi-Post-Pandemic Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

A review of similar comparisons may be informative in an environment of increasing interest rates. My colleagues and I have used past relationships between GDP and investment spending to gauge the potential magnitude of changes to investment spending in a recessionary environment.

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

Low volume inconsistent demand. Use this data to understand demand predictability. If demand error is extremely high, traditional demand management techniques are of limited value. To tie the demand analysis to customer service, map products into categories and plot the long tail of the supply chain.

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Surviving an Economic Downturn in the Retail Sector

Enterra Insights

Plus, Americans’ spending spree during the earlier years of the pandemic, fueled by stimulus money, boredom and socked-away savings, have made for tough comparisons.”[2] Intelligent demand management software is the key technology enabler of lean retail merchandise management.”

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What Value Are You Getting From Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

Additionally t he move from regional to global supply chain management decreased visibility. Supply Chain Risk Drivers: A Comparison of Risk. Forecast Value-Added (FVA) is a measurement of demand management improvement. Yet, companies continued to invest primarily in ERP systems. . 2) Forecast Value Added.