Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 21, 2023
Due to travel restrictions, I cannot attend many industry events, so I observe from home, watching webinars and remote broadcasts. One of my insights from doing the industry analysis for the Supply Chains to Admire each year is that smaller and less well-known companies outperform larger and better-known manufacturers.
Vanguard Software
JUNE 22, 2021
In the new normal of supply chain disruptions, it has never been more important for planners to strategically manage disruptive events, which create dramatic spikes or dips in demand, shortages in parts or supplies, and unexpected changes in shipping schedules. Fountain Tire Case Study. Register Now.
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Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 27, 2023
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.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
This was the inaugural supply chain event for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. During the presentation, I spoke about the future of supply chain management, and the building of outside-in processes. Orders are not a good representation of demand. Retail forecasts are never a good source of data for the manufacturer.
Enterra Insights
MARCH 11, 2021
He notes COVID-19 “left no country, company or individual unaffected”; however, he writes, “How ‘unexpected’ it actually was is up for debate — many have adopted the term ‘black swan,’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s coinage for a highly improbable but game-changing event, to describe the pandemic.
BlueYonder
APRIL 24, 2023
One of those urgent challenges is optimal data management — and few people are more qualified to discuss this topic than Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO of Snowflake , along with Duncan Angove, CEO of Blue Yonder, the leader in end-to-end supply chain management who will share the keynote stage at the event on May 3.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Unlike other risk management events, there is no new normal. At the conclusion of World War II, at which time service industries accounted for 10% of nonfarm employment, compared with 38% for manufacturing. The decline in the purchase of services drives unemployment and the need for governmental stimulus. The net/net?
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