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Demand Forecasting: A Complete Guide to Supply Chain Excellence

ToolsGroup

Demand forecasting in supply chain management is the process of predicting customer demand, supply trends, and pricing fluctuations. It leverages historical data, competitive intelligence, and external factors to guide inventory planning and resource allocation.

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Demand Forecasting: A Complete Guide to Supply Chain Excellence

ToolsGroup

Demand forecasting in supply chain management is the process of predicting customer demand, supply trends, and pricing fluctuations. It leverages historical data, competitive intelligence, and external factors to guide inventory planning and resource allocation.

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AI-Tuned Pricing and Inventory Strategies are the Way Forward for Retailers

Supply Chain Brain

Photo: iStock/South_agency July 2, 2025 Helen Atkinson, Managing Editor How does a retailer stay ahead of the dizzying number of factors that go into whether it can sell what it puts on the shelves at a profit? The company says its new approach uses agentic AI to transform consumer feedback into profitable retail growth strategies.

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When Designing the Right Manufacturing Plant, Small Can Be Beautiful

Supply Chain Brain

manufacturers have spent the last few decades consolidating production at gigantic offshore plants, especially in China. Such a model, based on prioritizing unit economies and production at scale, doesn’t prepare manufacturers and retailers for the waves of disruption that are washing over global supply chains today.

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Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014

GlobalTranz

We’ve already listed the top 10 manufacturing blog posts and the top 10 supply chain blog posts last week. When a manufacturer’s product normally moves through the supply chain network, it is to reach the distributor or customer. Any process or management after the sale of the product involves reverse logistics.

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The Rise of Outsourced Logistics: What it Means for LSPs

BlueYonder

As the size and scale of their worldwide supply chains increase, many manufacturers, retailers and distributors are finding themselves constrained by shortfalls in resources, capacity and specialized knowledge. As freight carrier rates and fuel prices rise, and competition for customers heats up, their margins are shrinking.

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AI: Real or Hype?

Supply Chain Brain

As a result, users may receive decisions that are not objective in terms of identifying specific suppliers, customers, manufacturing facilities or distribution methods. Solving AI Challenges To solve such challenges, companies should implement a strong data-governance framework. SPECIAL REPORT AI: Real or Hype?