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The Evolution and Future of Demand Management

ThroughPut

But to not be able to understand or manage that demand, given the market volatility created by higher customer expectations and shorter fulfillment cycles, has created continuous ripples of chaos in the entire supply chain. Are we able to intuitively align inventory to match demand? If not, how do we get there?

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies that operate separate systems for revenue management and demand management create a risk in understanding market trends and gauging price elasticity quickly. With the increase in product complexity, many companies have demand latency longer than supplier lead time. This trend leads to reactive behavior.

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Supply Chain Management:The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. In our commentary, we cited three trends that would manifest themselves in 2010, namely.

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Supply Chain Planning- The Manufacturer’s Guide for Accurate Planning and Forecasting

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This keeps them from creating smooth, synchronized and responsive supply chain plans to achieve the desired operational excellence. – How can it facilitate the best possible manner in which the requirements can be met from the demand plan created? Demand management. Production planning. into the final plan?

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Supply Chain Planning- The Manufacturer’s Guide for Accurate Planning and Forecasting

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This keeps them from creating smooth, synchronized and responsive supply chain plans to achieve the desired operational excellence. – How can it facilitate the best possible manner in which the requirements can be met from the demand plan created? Demand management. Production planning. into the final plan?

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Supply Chain Management:The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. As we approach the latter stages of the 2011 holiday buying season, the uptick in online buying has indeed occurred.

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Yowza! A Nine-Step Decision Process to Help Guide Supply Chain Planning Selection

Supply Chain Shaman

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.