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Körber Elevate 2024: Chart Your Course

Logistics Viewpoints

The theme this year was “Chart Your Course” which Richard Stewart, EVP Americas at Körber Supply Chain pointed out, is all about overcoming supply chain complexities and challenges. Workforce Planning : this allows for a company to forecast order and task volumes to predict labor requirements and optimize workforce planning.

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

Logistics Viewpoints

It is hard to believe it has been two years since I was faced with forecasting WMS and warehouse automation market growth rates in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. These events make accurate forecasting very difficult. I tend to use time series analysis as an anchor to my forecast, as I suspect many of you do.

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Forecasting Over the Product Life Cycle

ToolsGroup

Demand forecasting is tough, and getting it right over the entire product lifecycle during the course of launch, maturation, and end-of-life is tougher still. Forecasting new product introductions is difficult because you don’t have sales history, and you don’t have a good idea of how quickly the product will take off.

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Improve Forecast Quality and Reliability with Value-add Forecasting (Part 1)

Logility

The ability to effectively forecast demand is essential for supply chain management decisions. In fact, demand forecasts are used throughout the supply chain including supply chain design, purchasing, operations, inventory, and sales and marketing. The payoffs were big, but they did not come easily. So what’s the upside?

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Thoughts. Selecting Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

Most believe that Gartner would be of better service to the industry to adopt more of a Horses for Courses Strategy. The idiom ‘horses for courses’ derives from horse racing and symbolizes the concept of tailoring solutions to meet the individual characteristics of a situation or problem. What steps to take?

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

Unleashed

Demand forecasting has gained increasing importance over the last few years. We met with five supply chain experts to discuss how crucial demand forecasting is for mitigating risk, and what businesses can do to improve forecast accuracy. Our experts explain that best-practice demand planning begins with a top-down forecast.

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What’s the Value of Demand Forecasting?

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

Introduction I was recently in a conversation about forecasting with a client team, and one individual, whose background was not in supply chain, asked what the value of demand forecasting is. The link between forecast accuracy and corporate goals is less clear. But that doesn’t make forecasting any less important.