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Achieving Significant Transportation Savings through Improved Demand Forecasting

Logistics Viewpoints

When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. Pinnacle Propane is based out of Irving, Texas. Pinnacle Propane Delivery to a Farm. The implementation also involves leveraging weather data to improve forecasting.

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How to Prep Your Store for Peak Shipping Season + What to Expect

ShipBob

During this time, supply chain efficiencies can get disrupted as online brands try to keep up with demand, managing inventory and fulfilling a high volume of orders, while shipping carriers become busier than usual, working hard to deliver packages on time. Implement the latest supply chain technologies.

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Are we playing Sudoku or forecasting a business?

BlueYonder

The challenge facing supply chain forecasting practitioners is to figure out which unique combination of product hierarchy, location hierarchy, customer hierarchy, forecasting method and parameters maximizes their accuracy. Now consider that there may be many forecasting methods and parameters available.

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

After experiencing an incredibly challenging two years in the global logistics industry, I think we can let go of any expectation that the supply chain landscape will ever return to “normal.” By that, I mean that extreme uncertainty on both the demand and the supply sides will continue for the foreseeable future.