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Understanding ‘Forecastability’ and How to Generate Better Forecasts

CHAINalytics

Getting better statistical forecasts involves choosing the right technology, applying multiple forecast optimisation techniques, and a continuous improvement approach. This blog post is the second part of a Chainalytics’ Integrated Demand and Supply Planning practice five-part series on improving statistical forecasting.

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Essential Guide for Demand Forecasting in 2024

ThroughPut

Demand forecasting is a critical component of supply chain management, especially in the complex and unpredictable market landscape of 2024. Accurate forecasts are essential for maintaining inventory balance, ensuring customer satisfaction, and achieving financial stability. What is Demand Forecasting?

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Simplify Supply Chain Forecasting

Logility

Is 100% forecast accuracy attainable? Anyone that has ever had to forecast demand for products or services knows that obtaining a consistently high forecast accuracy is part science and part magic. At the same time we see higher customer fill rates, improved customer satisfaction, and increased revenue and margins.

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Nespresso Optimizes Orders and Inventory with End-to-End Digital Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

Nespresso addressed this challenge by digitizing its end-to-end supply chain – from demand forecasts to order deliveries to points-of-sale—thanks to ToolsGroup’s digital supply chain planning platform. By using daily forecasts and replenishment constraints such as storage capacity, safety stock, stock, lead time, etc.,

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6 Ways AI Empowers End-to-End Decision Automation in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

outliers, product with active sales but no forecast, sales in an inactive product or customer). 3) AI in Forecasting One of the critical areas where AI shines is forecasting. These insights result in input data corrections, algorithm enhancements, process improvements, and KPI target changes.

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Lean Continuous Improvement – Key Drivers for Continuous Improvement

ThroughPut

“ Lean” is considered to be a philosophy of continuous improvement. What is Lean Continuous Improvement? Lean Continuous Improvement is defined as a method for identifying opportunities for streamlining work, reducing waste, and increasing productivity. More efficient operations.

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How Smarter Businesses Plan to Forecast Demand

Unleashed

When many businesses forecast demand, even the most studious companies will not get it 100 percent accurate, instead of perfection, the focus should be on minimising errors. Planning is one of the core functions of supply chain management that can help minimise errors and thus increase the accuracy of forecasting demand.