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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS): A Golden Opportunity for the Supply Chain Industry

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While implementing SCaaS poses challenges, it has demonstrated its effectiveness across industries, fostering company growth, cost reduction, and leveraging cutting-edge technology. allowing them to shift their focus towards core activities like market share and product management. SCaaS offers a strategic impact on business.

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Demand forecasting is the process of making future estimations of how much of a given product will sell by location and time period. Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. This increases sales.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. Over the last decade the use of Terra Technology’s DS product improved short-term demand forecasts by 37% at 13 consumer products, and food and beverage companies.

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

Due to travel restrictions, I cannot attend many industry events, so I observe from home, watching webinars and remote broadcasts. ” I believe that the industry is stuck. Managing the Contrarian Deep Inside Of Me It is hard to manage the contrarian deep inside of me. As I process the content, I struggle. The reason?

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What About Them Apples?

Supply Chain Shaman

If we look back at history, 70% of companies implemented Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), however two-decades later only 1% of companies use VMI processes to drive a better demand signal. I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies.

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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

Logistics Bureau

While this article is intended as an evergreen resource, to help you navigate in your search for a supply chain job, and is not a COVID-19-specific guide, the pandemic has galvanized attention on the industry and its criticality. Why Choose a Job in the Supply Chain Industry? It’s a constantly-changing, ever-expanding industry.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

” Today, I know of less than twenty-five companies that actively sense demand, and while we talk about the use of channel data and the building of demand sensing processes to use channel data, it is still an elite group of supply chain leaders that are perfecting the techniques. And, what will signal an upturn?”