Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Companies must harness a wide variety of data structures and formats, spanning internal and external sources. For example, an AI agent can detect an issue in a regional distribution center and evaluate its impact across the global network, providing planners tailored recommendations to address the disruption.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 18, 2025

Your distribution network spans multiple locations. And demand patterns are highly unpredictable. With multi-echelon networks, supplier uncertainty, multiyear product lifecycles, and reverse logistics channels , aftermarket supply chains exceed the capabilities of traditional planning tools. The outcome?

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 14, 2025

Your distribution network spans multiple locations. And demand patterns are highly unpredictable. With multi-echelon networks, supplier uncertainty, multiyear product lifecycles, and reverse logistics channels , aftermarket supply chains exceed the capabilities of traditional planning tools. The outcome?

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 11, 2025

This article is a shortened version of themes & topics discussed in our newest Demand Planning Core White Paper. Demand planning has long been a requisite of supply chain management, but in a modern, high-speed environment, it’s become something more: a strategic lever for agility, and competitive advantage.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 2, 2025

We have not designed the planning systems to serve managers, directors, and vice presidents, aiming to improve decision-making and collaboration across the source, make, and deliver processes. This could all change if we discard our current definitions of supply chain planning and start anew. In short, don’t AI stupid.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

Supply chain was defined in 1982 as interoperability between source, make and deliver. It includes hedging strategies, alternate bill of materials, supplier sourcing strategies, changing routs to market, redesigning push/pull decoupling points, demand shaping policies, and use of outsourced manufacturing and distribution.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

HEINEKEN showcases its outstanding demand planning results With over 700 attendees, the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit was a great opportunity to meet with other planning professionals, discuss our common challenges around intelligent planning, learn from industry thought leaders and hear some truly impressive customer success stories.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Translation of the demand forecast into planned orders to minimize manufacturing constraints. Use of optimization to consume planned orders into manufacturing scheduling and distribution requirements planning (including inventory optimization of safety stock). Be careful about the gaps.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Explore the capabilities below to see how, with the release of v8.60, ToolsGroup has further improved its ability to drive decision making at the speed of business and deliver supply chain agility and resilience with expanded dynamic demand planning capabilities across the board.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Image: iStock/JuSun June 18, 2025 Helen Atkinson, Managing Editor “The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed,” wrote William Gibson in his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 30, 2022

Then Jabil handles the sourcing and manufacturing of those products. Jabil then often also takes care of the packaging and final distribution of products for their clients. Tymon’s contribution to Jabil’s offerings is a service line known as ‘planning-as-a-service.’. They are sourcing from over 27,000 suppliers.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A recent survey of demand planners’ concerns and day-to-day experiences sheds light on the challenges faced by planning teams today and highlights the pressing need for innovative solutions to solve for them. By consolidating data sources and providing a user-friendly interface, it enhances overall efficiency and accuracy.

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

At a high level, procurement focuses on sourcing the goods and services an organization needs, while supply chain management oversees the broader flow of those goods, from raw materials to end customers. Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves orchestrating a product’s or service’s entire lifecycle, from sourcing and production to delivery.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 3, 2018

Multiple manufacturers, multiple relationships, multiple distribution models, multiple contracts. These complexities, layered with globalization, shorter product life cycles , and associated volatility in demand planning, has produced the most dynamic supply chain landscape we have ever experienced.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

This includes suppliers, logistics providers, sales, and fulfillment locations/channels supporting autonomous planning decisions that take data flowing from various internal and external sources into account. It provides a single source of truth with visibility and analytics based on the same data. and Europe. Yosun holds B.S.

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DynaSys

JUNE 16, 2020

In this article, the second of the series analyzing the impact of COVID – 19 on demand planning (find here the first one), you will find a list of actions demand planners can do to correct and clean COVID’s impact on demand. The post Demand Planning Against COVID-19: The Impact appeared first on QAD Dynasys Blog.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. The goods flow through 2 import centers, 14 strategically located distribution centers in North America, 66 final mile shipping hubs, and nearly 1,700 branch locations. million square feet in 10 distribution centers and 35 million square feet across its branch network.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2025

Companies must harness a wide variety of data structures and formats, spanning internal and external sources. For example, an AI agent can detect an issue in a regional distribution center and evaluate its impact across the global network, providing planners tailored recommendations to address the disruption.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 17, 2021

Distribution industry supply chains have always been squeezed between manufacturers and their customers; facing increased competitive threats, escalating SKU counts, and expanding ecommerce. Smart planning alleviates risk of distribution supply uncertainty. Here are four tactics planners can use now to get ahead.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

These emissions span every link in the supply chain, from upstream farming to downstream distribution, creating a complex and often fragmented data landscape.Yet more than half of companies still rely on spreadsheets and manual tools to navigate this complexity. These outdated methods are inefficient, error-prone, and difficult to scale.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. They are designed to have minimal impact on the performance of the underlying source systems. Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis.

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ModusLink Corporation

JANUARY 30, 2025

Effective Demand Planning and Forecasting Accurate demand forecasting is the cornerstone of a resilient supply chain. By leveraging data analytics, businesses can better anticipate customer demand, optimize production schedules, and avoid both stockouts and overstocking.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

To all of my supply chain, demand planning, and forecasting friends who found the year challenging (if not traumatic), rest assured: You were not alone then – and you’re not alone now. It’s time to re-think how our products are manufactured and distributed. Lesson #2: Finding solutions in warehouses and distribution centers. “We

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

What is the difference between Logistics and Distribution? Without consulting a dictionary both Logistics and Distribution suggest imagery involving the movement of goods. Let’s start by considering the common definitions that are used for each of Logistics and Distribution. Distribution. ” [link].

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. For businesses of all sizes, the digital transformation of supply chain planning became the most important initiative. . These data sources are often spread across multiple platforms and come in various formats.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Company operates eighteen manufacturing facilities, nine distribution centers located throughout North and Central America. They source plastic pellets and then use injection, blow molding, rotational molding, and thermoforming to produce their finished products. That, I commented, was a very fast implementation.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 11, 2025

A rise in nearshoring and away from single-source dependency The pandemic was a wake-up call that exposed the fragility of globally interconnected supply chains and the risks of over-reliance on distant suppliers and single-source strategies. 3 long term changes to the supply chain 1.

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ThroughPut

MAY 27, 2022

For effective, accurate real-time demand sensing and forecasting, you need cross-functional visibility and actionable insights across the entire length of the supply chain as it forms the backbone of all business operations. In Sourcing: How well are your vendors integrated into your network? For example, you need to know: 1.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

MARCH 2023 – ToolsGroup earned a Higher Performer badge in G2’s Demand Planning Grid® – G2’s scoring criteria is that products shown on the Grid® for Demand Planning have received a minimum of 10 reviews/ratings in data gathered by March 07, 2023.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 11, 2019

According to Inbound Logistics , there are three main sources of supply chain complexity: meeting the needs of customers, globalization, and internal pressures. DCH then generates statistics that weight different data sources according to the level of accuracy they contribute. Franke was facing all three.

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This reality is compelling F&B companies to rethink their strategies and approach to supply chain optimization and demand planning. Staying competitive in this intense landscape demands finely tuned operations that are highly efficient and effective – from product concept to customer consumption.

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Silvon Software

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For Greater Product Performance Visibility and Improved Sales & Demand Planning Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in an increasingly competitive environment, where the ability to access and analyze timely, accurate data can make or break a company’s success.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

Sure, we’re concerned, and in some cases stocking more inventory at local distribution centers. But, we continue to see the trend as a sales and/or a demand planning issue; something where we need better visibility to real time demand or a finer cut of demand signals.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 12, 2017

While I am advocating rethinking supply chain planning, for some consultants, the only path forward is the adoption of DDRMP. No matter what I write on demand planning, the response is to blindly deploy DDMRP. The Lokad approach assumes that demand data is not a normal distribution. Conclusion.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

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