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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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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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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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7 Ways Businesses Can Manage Supply Chain Shortages in 2021

ToolsGroup

Download our ebook for practical guidance: 8 Winning Strategies for Managing Supply Shortages. When COVID-19 hit, manufacturers scrambled to meet demand, but there was a nasty surprise in store in the form of a radical shift in consumer buying patterns and behaviors. Shipping providers also slashed capacities.

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Turn a Good Demand Forecast into the Optimum Inventory Plan

ToolsGroup

For MEIO to work as intended, it needs a strong demand forecast foundation that can understand inventory demand potential in the modern world, with all its strange anomalies. A solid foundation can segment demand signals. Demand is not what you shipped in the past. How do you automate demand planning decisions?

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Forecasting Over the Product Life Cycle

ToolsGroup

Early sales data can be notoriously deceptive due to channel packing—you ship a bunch of new products to distribution centers or stores to fill bins and shelves, creating an initial surge that is not necessarily a good indicator of sustainable end-user demand.

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What Manufacturing Supply Chains Should Expect in 2021 

Vanguard Software

Positive momentum indicates pent-up demand since the October and November 2020 Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) was higher than any time since 2018. We expect to see four trends in 2021 as manufacturing supply chains respond to demand and adjust to the new realities of this uncertain time. Download Case Study.