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Supply Chain: Learning How to Dance

Supply Chain Shaman

Their world view is currency-based planning at a brand level while supply chain planning is volume-based at an item/location level. (As Monthly demand needs to be consumed into daily schedules based on rules-based consumption. Consumption is managed by rules, policies, and optimization. These policies drive replenishment.

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Common Sales and Operations Myths Part 4 – Spreadsheets are King

Logility

Reality: “Lack of a Robust Planning Solution Leads to Disappointment” While a limited scope S&OP pilot process can be adequately managed using simple tools like spreadsheets, email, and PowerPoint a high-value S&OP rollout cannot be achieved without implementing a dedicated solution designed to facilitate the S&OP process.

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Collaboration and demand review

DynaSys

Time zones and languages shouldn’t be a barrier in your demand planning process. Using the same volume measurements, currency, values, and wording. It’s important to unify your language so that your data stays consistent. That way the collaboration process is not confined to geography or even your enterprise.

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Fueling Success: Career in Supply Chain Guide

SCMDOJO

Demand Management: Predicting and managing customer purchases through qualitative and quantitative methods, reducing uncertainty in short-term incoming demand.

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Managing supply chains in a fragile environment

Supply Chain View from the Field

Gerard Chick and I had a good chat over skype this morning, and we both started jotting down a few facts… Banks are buying up gold and moving currency out since 2009. Gerard talks about managing the tail – the stuff you have to do that is the normal procurement stuff that has to get done.

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Beyond Spend Analytics: Supplier Life Cycle Data

Supply Chain View from the Field

Oh, and don’t forget that you don’t just manage price – but quantity! This involves an activity known as “demand management” – or seeking to throttle consumption. And when you terminate a vendor, you have to close the contract, and pay them and archive them.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chain & Logistics Supply

ThroughPut

2) Inventory and Demand Management. This is even more pronounced for local, regional and national firms that are limited in their economies of scale, currency hedge capabilities, market concentration, and limited technology and operational budgets.