Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was an AMR Research analyst. When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. The model in Figure 1 became the foundational model for the Gartner S&OP model.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

As demand shifts from period-to-period, the costs increase with no impact on growth. Implementation of Sales Forecasting. The focus on sales forecasting started shortly after Y2k. Few companies measured the impact on error and bias through the rigor of Forecast Value Added (FVA) analysis. Maturity Model.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. Almost two decades of reporting. They are not active on conference circuits. The analysis is biased toward large process-based manufacturers in the Gartner network. As I listen, I struggle.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The jobs reduction will save $1 billion this year, Tomé said on an earnings conference call with analysts on Tuesday. percent drop in annual sales, UPS forecast a 2024 upswing of as little as 1.1 rules issued in October 2022 restricted exports to semiconductor manufacturing facilities there as part of an effort to keep U.S.

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 4, 2023

The global manufacturing sector has seen an upswing, a technological renaissance of sorts. Since the start of 2012, more people graduating from college and universities are entering the engineering/manufacturing fields. The manufacturing sector has been severely impacted by this trend because production jobs are highly technical.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

These teams are also more advanced in the use of planning and more advanced analytics concepts. Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. In nine out of ten supply chain planning systems that I test, I find that companies have a negative Forecast Value Added level. My take away?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?”

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Effective inventory management is crucial to reducing costs in any manufacturing business. This is particularly true in the food manufacturing industry, which characteristically has a high volume of products stored, and an urgent need to fill existing client orders to match ongoing consumer demand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was certainly another strange year, but the in-person conferences I usually look forward to were a mixed bag this year. I attended my first in-person conferences and attended a number of virtual ones as well. Forecasts call for freight rate slumps in 2023. As hard as it is to believe, another year is coming to an end.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. The organization is not clear on the role of the forecast. In discussions, the role of the forecast and the budget are intertwined without clarity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

At a time that marketplace offerings were super-hyped, I forecasted the doom of ten e-marketplace providers. It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. At the time, I was a junior Gartner analyst.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Supermarkets, retailers and importers are beginning to lift prices in response to the crises, essentially passing the costs onto their customers. According to the Conference Board, despite lockdowns and COVID-19 related restrictions, consumer confidence in Asia rose in the last quarter of 2021 to 128 points from 126 points.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

As the markets plummet, it is time to remind ourselves that demand is not a forecast. Traditional forecasting approaches are not adequate in a time of market volatility. In the real world, companies operate with a Mean Absolute Forecast Error of 24-60%, and have a bias of 9-40%. Markets drive supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Before the benchmarking work, I believed that companies that were better forecasters would be better at inventory management. Cycle stock is the management of stock required to cycle through production runs and procurement buys effectively. There are two buffers in the supply chain: inventory and manufacturing capacity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The conference is always a lot of fun. At the conference I encouraged the attendees to network with each other, to build a guiding coalition, to redesign supply chain processes for the Supply Chain of 2025. As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. There is tension.

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Logility

MARCH 30, 2020

Public gatherings have been cancelled including public schools, sporting events, and social gatherings, conferences and most musical performances and other entertainment. According to the survey, 44 percent of manufacturers do not have a plan for supply chain disruptions from China.

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Kinaxis

JULY 7, 2017

Gartner Research Director Andrew Downard addressed the issue during his presentation at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference by outlining three macro trends affecting supply chain planning , chief among them IoT. That means better forecast accuracy for HP, but also a change in how and where to handle distribution and logistics.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 6, 2016

So mark your calendar with the relevant supply chain conferences. Logy Conference. eWorld Purchasing & Supply. Sedex Conference. SCM & Optimization Conference. Turkey Trade & Export Finance Conference 2016. The Global Procurement & Supply Chain for Oil & Gas Industry. Marcus Evans.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Journalists Sarah Nassauer ( @SarahNassauer ) and Jennifer Maloney ( @maloneyfiles ) report, “Nearly six months into the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., While some manufacturers and retailers had fairly mature omnichannel operations, other companies hastened to bolster their operations. .”[2]

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Jennifer Overstreet, Director of Digital Content at the National Retail Federation, reports Li & Fung, CEO Spencer Fung, told participants at a 2018 NRF conference, “The supply chain will become faster, digital and more innovative. Predictive Analytics. 3D Printing and On Demand, Additive Manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. This makes me yawn.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

Shifting demand increases cost and complexity while shaping demand increases market share or baseline forecast demand for the product. In the words of a person that I once heard speak at the conference,”It is much easier for a supply chain team to run downhill than uphill.” It is finite. A Focus on Demand Flows.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

I am a manufacturing gal by training. It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. Customer sentiment technologies mine the patterns of unstructured text and use new forms of analytics to guide discovery on what matters to the customer. What drives my passion?

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

He is the most accurate forecaster I know, because unlike many speculators and economists, his observations are based on actual data! He believes that inflation isn’t going to go down going into 2023 – but will persist. Walmart will pay more for domestic sources, but will not be burdened with the inventory and purchasing FOB.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. There is also no Santa Claus.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 26, 2019

”[1] In simpler times, shoppers would return items to the stores in which they were purchased — often exchanging them for other items (a win-win for both the consumer and the retailer). Happy Returns forecasts that the value of returned goods will rise from $350 billion in 2017 to $550 billion by 2020 in the US. Some 61% of U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I have read your report on S&OP technologies, and I have some questions.” In my prior jobs as an analyst, the research reports were locked behind a paywall; and even though I would have liked to have been able to talk directly to Steve, the commercial model of the prior positions prohibited it. He was exuberant.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 15, 2022

Consumers have not necessarily put the brakes on buying stuff, and it's just that some consumers are being more mindful of what to purchase thanks to inflation. Croc's latest quarter, ending June 30, reported record revenue, up 51% year-over-year and gross profit up 26% year-over-year.

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Requis

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The following article is a sample from Loic Coyot’s presentation, “Insights on New Technologies Across Industries,” that he will be presenting at the 2020 Conference and Trade Show in Scottsdale, AZ , April 19 – 22. __. Logos on boxes and/or vehicles to determine the manufacturer. Lose the hype and hysteria. Up in the clouds.

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Requis

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The following article is a sample from Loic Coyot’s presentation, “Insights on New Technologies Across Industries,” that he will be presenting at the 2020 Conference and Trade Show in Scottsdale, AZ , April 19 – 22. __. Logos on boxes and/or vehicles to determine the manufacturer. Lose the hype and hysteria. Up in the clouds.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

I sure called this one right…Globalization linked with increasing labor costs in countries such as China, as well as fuel costs and regulatory shifts, are driving a dramatic impact on where companies source, where they produce, and the complexity of processes required to sell to the customer.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Order abandonment is a major problem in e-commerce and, in sectors such as manufacturing, aligning order expectations with production capabilities can be a nightmare, leading managers to coordinate a complex set of processes and work orders. The path to purchase has been shortened and robbed of friction.”

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Order abandonment is a major problem in e-commerce and, in sectors such as manufacturing, aligning order expectations with production capabilities can be a nightmare, leading managers to coordinate a complex set of processes and work orders. The path to purchase has been shortened and robbed of friction.”

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 12, 2015

I was at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference earlier this week. For example, we provide a solution to forecast sales for both manufacturers and retailers so they can purchase, produce and sell more products more efficiently. Forecasting demands that we process hundreds of millions of pieces of data.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Whatever maturity model or consultancy support companies use, S&OP seems to get stuck. A European S&OP model was also part of this implementation.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

Three Steps to a Better Statistical Forecast Setup. Arkieva COO – Sujit Singh, outlines three essential steps to better statistical forecasting — simulate, measure, refine. She shared that her business had implemented a statistical forecasting package from one of the leading vendors during the previous year.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 26, 2016

Recent european and international supply chain management conferences have been primarily characterised by their focus on strongly emerging trends and their impact on companies’ supply chains. The trends of increasing urbanisation and digitisation were covered extensively several times during the Logy Conference in Helsinki, Finland.

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