Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

The goal of an SCP implementation was to effectively balance demand and supply. Here, Mars Wrigley leveraged using Kinaxis for both demand and supply planning. Kinaxis is a proponent of using network planners for both supply and demand planning rather than having the planners operate in silos.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

” The assumption that traditional demand planning focused on order patterns or the use of S&OP to understand demand is insufficient. We are in the middle of planning for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6th-8th in Washington, DC. The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

The paradigm is shifting from foundational visibility to real-time decision-making, with positive implications for supply chain teams spanning sourcing & procurement, to production, to yard & DC operations and beyond. Why is this shift such a big deal? We don’t have to think back very far.

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Silvon Software

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For Greater Product Performance Visibility and Improved Sales & Demand Planning Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in an increasingly competitive environment, where the ability to access and analyze timely, accurate data can make or break a company’s success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

For example, a “buy plan” for procurement. Traditionally, demand planning was chopped up into many applications—demand planning, forecasting by finance, revenue management, and sales account planning. Wednesday, July 13 at 12:00 PM [link]. See You At the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit?

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ThroughPut

MAY 2, 2024

Add to that the growing demands of sustainability all around! Achieving any kind of business and operational efficiency is possible only when you lead plans by demand. However, demand planning is a complex function and ineffective demand planning can spell doom in the modern commercial world.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

Work of Data Management Teams Groups targeting transactional master data Embracing disparate data IT Team Focus Integration Interoperability Planning Focus Demand plans focused on error reduction. Demand plans focused on understanding market flows and decreasing latency.

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SupplyPike

APRIL 10, 2020

Learn how to: Keep your logistics on time and prepared Maintain your replenishment goals Properly forecast and redefine your demand plan Use technology to help. Shortages, extreme demand, and panic buying are causing issues up and down supply chains. Many suppliers are seeing the COVID-19 pandemic as a “black swan” event.

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The Network Effect

APRIL 17, 2015

Even high-volume products with well-understood seasonality patterns continue to experience high near-term forecast error rates of over 40% while using sophisticated time-series methods for demand planning. Just looking at typical real time events helps us understand why many techniques can’t possibly work in the near term.

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Logility

APRIL 20, 2017

Advanced modeling capabilities create a valid, forward-looking demand plan by product, customer, channel and geography, with more accurate forecasts throughout the product life cycle. Recently, we took a look at six key actions to drive success in the white paper Six Supply Chain Actions that Drive Wholesale Distribution Success.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We drive towards what we believe will be the optimal planning process, but predicting the future can be tricky, even for smart business technologists. Just look at Thomas Edison. Or consider the founder of IBM, Thomas J.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The series will go into more detail around what’s changed or changing in the warehouse, the evolution of warehouse types, technology within the DC and how integrating supply chain planning software and execution solutions such as warehouse management systems (WMS), can better optimize the supply chain.

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Logility

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Craft Brew Alliance transitioned from a DC-driven distribution network of 10 regional centers to a direct ship model to more than 500 wholesalers. The supply chain organization set out to create a more efficient global supply chain to drive a trusted demand plan, improve customer service, and synchronize inventory with demand.

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 29, 2009

Demand Planning/Forecasting. Content Being Accessed: Reader Question: Reducing Sort Lanes to Reduce DC Costs. or Search by TOPIC. Select Topic. Bar Coding/Label Printing. Compliance Networks. Consumer Goods and Retail Supp. Distribution/Centers. ERP Systems. Global Logistics. Green Supply Chain. Inventory Management/Optimizat.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 14, 2014

You have to unlearn the old ways of doing things and some of the traditional supply chain planning practices that are dominant today when you enter the more connected world of Flowcasting. First, there is transitioning the planning model itself. And for retailers, the edge of their finished goods DCs is the end of their planning model.

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DynaSys

MARCH 10, 2021

The events of 6th January 2021 in Washington DC are still fresh in the mind. Over the years demand planners have been encouraged to make use of comment boxes as they add promotions or other events to individual demand plans. A bad example to start with. Companies ask several people for their recollections.

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SupplyPike

MARCH 23, 2020

Just one Walmart DC is one million square feet, so it can be tough making sure all products are where they need to be. An ice storm may cause delays in your shipping so that your product doesn’t reach the stores on time from the DC, or your buyer may decide to run a sale, or your new marketing campaign did much better than expected.

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E2open

MARCH 1, 2018

Until recently, the supply chains for CPG companies used to end with their distribution centers (DCs) serving Walmart DCs. The demand from a Walmart DC or another retailer’s DC was lumpy by definition. Store demand in general was a theoretical concept, sometimes heard about and seldom utilized. .

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E2open

MARCH 1, 2018

Until recently, the supply chains for CPG companies used to end with their distribution centers (DCs) serving Walmart DCs. The demand from a Walmart DC or another retailer’s DC was lumpy by definition. Store demand in general was a theoretical concept, sometimes heard about and seldom utilized. .

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Elementum

MAY 23, 2019

It can show how the plan actually converts into results in terms of customer orders and fulfillment—and not just in terms of overall volume, but timing: are monthly S&OP forecast buckets breaking down in a manageable way into realistic daily/weekly execution activities? The title of his slide told the story: “Order Detailed !=

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Vanguard Software

JULY 30, 2021

July 22, 2021 – Shippers are moving freight earlier, while carriers are trying to plan ahead and add capacity if possible. DC Velocity – How to improve supply chain management for small businesses. Hy Cite selects Vanguard Predictive Planning to increase demand planning and forecast review efficiency.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 13, 2016

Retail planning systems based on sales history and customer demographics alone are not specific or agile enough to respond to actual customer demand. Planning systems must understand the preferences of each shopper in order to make the meaningful personalized offers that will separate winners from the pack going forward.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2017

This makes the demand planner’s role challenging and rewarding at the same time. An improvement in forecast accuracy can have a significant impact on the bottom line by reducing inventory buffers, obsolete products, expedited shipments, DC space required and other non-value added work.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JANUARY 18, 2023

Demand is very difficult to accurately predict without the proper tools. Most demand planning solutions offer standard functions, but the results they deliver vary widely. They can reliably predict future demand and ensure the right amount of inventory is available. What is popular today may not stay popular tomorrow.

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BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2013

Meet the panel: Robin Bornkamp, Vice President, Inventory & Demand Planning, Lowe’s. As an example, she said a little extra work in the DC to create store-ready and shelf-ready pallets can save a tremendous amount of work in stores. Everything else is just a means to that end.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 15, 2015

They then can deploy this common demand forecast across their retail and manufacturing networks. This is what planners call distribution requirements planning or DRP. These store-level DRP systems calculate time-phased store and retail DC product requirements based directly upon the store-level forecasts for sales to consumers.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Don’t Confuse Demand Forecasting with Demand Planning The two terms are often used interchangeably, and this is often a source of confusion. Forecasting is a subset – a very important subset – of demand planning. Now here’s my list: 1. This is an apples to oranges comparison.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Don’t Confuse Demand Forecasting with Demand Planning The two terms are often used interchangeably, and this is often a source of confusion. Forecasting is a subset – a very important subset – of demand planning. Now here’s my list: 1. This is an apples to oranges comparison.

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Forecasting Supply and Demand Forecasting Software Modeling 52

Logility

APRIL 15, 2020

Sales and marketing resource planning. Near-term and long-range planning. Demand Planning. Demand and supply needs to be balanced at the volume level to address big picture business planning and mix level to enable customer and product needs. Set sales and marketing resources and plan.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The series will go into more detail around what’s changed or changing in the warehouse, the evolution of warehouse types, technology within the DC and how integrating supply chain planning software and execution solutions such as warehouse management systems (WMS), can better optimize the supply chain.

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crisp

JANUARY 5, 2023

Crisp is the starting point for the company’s Sales & Operations planning process, aligning all teams around a shared source of truth. From there, they feed current sales and inventory data into forward-looking demand planning and forecasting.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

JULY 8, 2021

After a short stint in manufacturing process engineering in another industry, she got interested in the business side of things and moved into supply chain planning, starting in demand planning. Through her affinity for math and her attention to detail, Amanda earned a couple of promotions and is now a senior demand planner.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Part 2 of the series took a deeper dive into the adoption of technology within the distribution center (DC), how technological innovation processes in DCs are poised to change over the next few years and the path and obstacles to automated DCs.

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Alloy

JUNE 9, 2022

Products are stored in a domestic warehouse before being shipped on to the retailer’s DC. Using Technology to Harmonize Direct Import with Traditional Replenishment Data for Improved Planning. Brands can better forecast demand from multiple origins in the same place and analyze trends by a specific product.

Consumer Goods 52

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6 River Systems

JUNE 26, 2020

“For suppliers, a good demand plan can mitigate obstacles all up and down the supply chain…” A demand plan helps identify potential expansions and potential threats to sales and product lines. A successful demand plan can significantly cut costs due to out-of-stocks, overstocks, and expedited shipping.

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Alloy

MAY 16, 2022

Lead times from the manufacturer are calculated and shipping times to the retailer’s DCs are factored in even before the final leg of the journey to the store. Traditionally, your visibility ends at sell-in, going dark when the product leaves the truck at the DC. Usually order quantities are carefully planned ahead of time.

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RELEX Solutions

MAY 13, 2019

A global brand running wholly owned subsidiaries and exporting to more than 100 countries, it runs a multi-level distribution network centered on a global DC in Italy and 2 regional DCs in France and the USA. Previously, Arena managed ordering in Excel; both that from suppliers to the central DC and from the latter to regional hubs.

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