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Demand Planning

SupplyPike

What is a demand plan? Demand planning tells you how much inventory you can expect to sell, down to the regional level. Armed with point-of-sales data, knowledge of inventory issues, and accounting for anomalies, you can plan on how much product to manufacture, store in your warehouses, and ship to each region.

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Four Strategies for Smarter Demand Planning

Vanguard Software

Organizations cannot underestimate the COVID-19 pandemic impacts and disruptions on-demand planning. Over the past 15 months, disruptive events have exposed the challenges growing over the past decade – SKU proliferation, new distribution channels, shorter product lifecycles, and more demanding customers. Register Now.

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How Demand Planning Influences Supply Planning through Predicting Future Demand Patterns

Vanguard Software

And before that, in 2001, Nike also had a demand planning blunder that led to a $100 million loss in sales. These examples show how imperative a proper process for demand planning and supply planning is to an organization’s overall health and profitability. Demand Planning Forecasting Application.

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4 Ways Sonus Improved Demand Planning and Reduced Inventory by 20%

Kinaxis

“Using what-if scenarios allow us to determine almost instantaneously whether or not we’re able to accommodate a change request or potential new order,” says Laure Morgan, S&OP Demand Planning Manager, Sonus. “It Tell the Complete Story.

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The ‘Secret Sauce’ to Improving Demand Planning

Arkieva

How do you get the sense of what works for demand planning? Related Webinar: How to Use Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales & Delight Your Customers ] Improving Demand Planning. Related Webinar: How to Use Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales & Delight Your Customers ] Improving Demand Planning.

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Three Things Telecom Supply Chains of the Future Need to Do Now

ToolsGroup

For one telecom customer, we built a service-driven ‘dynamic response network’ that integrated demand planning, sensing and multi-echelon E2E inventory optimization. By initiating service-driven planning models, your telecom operations will be equipped to drive significant cost efficiencies and revenue growth–simultaneously.

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Planning Seasonal Food Production in Uncertain Times

DELMIA Quintiq

Demand planning, however, gets even tougher for manufacturers with the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. How will demand change now that a global pandemic has forced many bars and restaurants to close for weeks? Demand planning during a global pandemic. But manufacturers still have to generate demand scenarios.