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Here’s How SKF Clinched the Gartner Supply Chainnovator Award with Digital Twin

ToolsGroup

The goal of the award is to identify the innovative, unconventional and high-impact initiatives leaders are working on and investing in to drive the transformation of their supply chains.”1 SKF challenged by legacy supply chain planning processes. Digital transformation enables automated supply chain planning.

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Surviving an Economic Downturn in the Retail Sector

Enterra Insights

”[5] They add, “Whereas retailers once purchased merchandise largely based on the gut instinct of trend-savvy buyers and the push of whatever manufacturers tried to sell them, nowadays, they need to take a much more customer-focused and data-centered approach. ” • Finding ways to limit the handling of merchandise.

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What If You Could Take The Guesswork Out Of Forecast Planning? Guest Post from Osgood Vogler

Kinaxis

The author, Osgood Vogler, Director, Analytics, Celestica Supply Chain Managed Services, describes an insight-based demand management process: So, how do you take the guesswork out of forecast planning? Demand planning has a big impact on business performance. How predictable is the demand?

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Making Cents Out of Demand Sensing

Logility

Demand sensing does not help supply planning and has no effect on inventory management. It does; however, create the illusion of improved forecast accuracy by changing the forecast in the way that can never translate into an improvement in supply chain performance.

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Making Food & Beverage Supply Chains Pay

IQMS

Bottom Line: High performance, integrated food & beverage supply chains are the lifeblood of successful manufacturers in the industry, enabling them to flex in response to customer demand. It’s Time to Start Managing Food & Beverage Supply Chains For the Future, Not The Past.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

While traditional forecasting approaches use statistics to model history assuming that historic shipments and order patterns represent future market patterns, in the times of market volatility, especially for manufacturers two-five levels back in the supply chain, traditionally forecasting is not adequate.

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Defining and Implementing an Effective Transportation Strategy

Talking Logistics

The first element are the comprehensive set of strategies covering all the functional elements of your supply chain, including supply management, procurement, demand management, production, inventory management, distribution, customer service, and reverse logistics.