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Fueling Success: Career in Supply Chain Guide

SCMDOJO

We enable them by providing high-quality supply chain on-demand courses, guides, best practices, tools, and mentoring from industry experts. We have Courses like S&OP deployment, Supply Chain Digitalization , , and Negotiation in Procurement. Eight core competencies stand out, encompassing crucial aspects of SCM.

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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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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

Logistics Bureau

It touches many departments, from production, procurement, shipping, accounting, and finance to marketing, warehousing, research and development, and sales. Supply chain management is increasingly making an impact on the overall functioning of the business and influencing C-suite decisions.

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Is Your Manufacturing Business Ready for ERP Solutions?

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Orders are up, business is booming, and your manufacturing operation is expanding. You lack visibility into your finances Inventory management is challenging and you either find yourself running out of material or overstocking your supplies, tying up cash. Be clear on the costs associated with an ERP purchase.

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

ThroughPut

By being able to seamlessly evaluate the actual capacity against realized demand, assess scheduled production load of processes over time, and track the inventory built up amid lost sales opportunities, a sound capacity planning solution can help tide over tricky demand-supply scenarios. 2) Better inventory management.

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How Do We Stop Buying Planning Software the Wrong Way?

Supply Chain Shaman

“We are considering the purchase of Blue Yonder, Logility, Kinaxis, o9, or OMP. You will never be successful in selecting planning software from an RFP or an analyst model. I am constantly surprised how many intelligent manufacturing teams buy software from PowerPoint. My organization does not believe in demand planning.