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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Solvoyo’s Solution Bugaboo: something that causes fear or distress out of proportion to its importance. Demand forecasting is the process of making future estimations of how much of a given product will sell by location and time period. Demand forecasting should be tightly integrated to an inventory optimization application.

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Introducing ThroughPut Capacity Planning Module: Optimize Your Capacity Plans With The Power Of AI

ThroughPut

The Covid-19 pandemic has reset perspectives, priorities, and strategies across the supply chain industry. Moreover, it has resurfaced the importance of capacity planning and utilization based on the ever-changing demand-supply dynamics. “ Demand Sensing is the first step of putting your end-to-end supply chain on autopilot.

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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. The initial software product release name was Real-Time Forecasting. The product naming convention changed to Demand Sensing (DS) in 2005. History of Terra Technology.

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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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What About Them Apples?

Supply Chain Shaman

” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” I do believe in demand planning, but most companies overstate forecast improvements. At that time, the demand processes were largely regional. Like a car, demand engines needs continual tuning.

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Making Cents Out of Demand Sensing

Logility

Sometimes demand planners focus too much on forecast accuracy and miss seeing the forest for the trees. I was guilty of this from time to time when I led a demand-planning group because we were evaluated on forecast accuracy as one of our key metrics. Here in lays the crux of the issue with demand sensing.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

Analysis of case study is certainly one of the most popular methods for people from business management background. In order to accelerate the learning, this article has gathered 20+ most sought-after supply chain case studies, analyzed/categorized them by industry and the findings are presented.