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Editor’s Choice: The TikTok Effect on Demand Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Or, why you need demand planning for going viral on social media. Thanks to demand planning innovations, supply chain planners are detecting potential demand spikes before they become global phenomena – even when that data comes from outside sources, like TikTok or Google Trends.

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18 Ways to Get SALES Involved in Demand Planning

Silvon Software

Collaboration between Sales and Operations professionals in the demand planning process is critical if you want to achieve better delivery rates, higher service levels, fewer stock-outs and increased customer satisfaction. THE DEMAND PLANNING PROCESS (FOR SALES) Simplify the inputs needed by Sales.

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AI in Demand Planning — Are You Utilizing Your Full Potential?

BlueYonder

Not only is manual scenario planning a tedious and time-consuming job, but it also often results in suboptimal decisions because too many granular scenarios or too few wide scenarios were created — missing critical levers and decision points. For example, Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour is projected to contribute about $.4.5

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Don’t Wait to Innovate: 3 Key Benefits of Causal Forecasting

Logility

That’s why we’re here to break it down for you and show why it’s high time you included causal forecasting in your demand planning toolkit. Let’s consider a simple example—daily sales of ice cream. What is Causal Forecasting? Don’t wait to reap these benefits.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

They view their implementation of a tightly integrated suite of applications delivered in a public cloud infrastructure from Oracle as a platform on which they can build to help drive continuous innovation. For example, the bricks in a pizza oven are refractory bricks. HWI employed a crawl-walk-run methodology.

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Demand Planning maturity levels and how to improve them

o9 Solutions

Which parts of your demand planning processes are most broken or need the most improvement? Understanding your planning maturity is the best pathway to resolving these system, data, process and resource challenges. A good demand planning process requires these elements to be defined correctly.

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Automation in Manufacturing: Uses, Examples, & Trends

Unleashed

For example, using an overhead crane to move a heavy object minimises the risk of back injury caused by humans carrying it across the factory instead. Let’s look at a few examples of automation tools used in manufacturing. Below are some examples of common ways automation can be used in manufacturing. Increased safety.