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Want to Succeed at a Large Firm? Become an Entrepreneur

Logistics Viewpoints

Those sites are primarily located in China, Hungary, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States. She worked as a production planner, a master planner, a demand planner, and inventory manager, before leading a team of demand planners in 2015. They had over 100 days of inventory on hand. It was overlooked.”

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Probabilistic Forecasting: Right Fit for Your Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

Customers include Qantas, Air France, Lufthansa, and Malaysia Airlines. Predicting spare part requirements is extremely difficult, as past demand is not indicative of future requirements. To meet the need, the Spairliners planning team knew they needed help in inventory planning. Their challenge? Recommendations.

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Transforming Global Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Reliable financial analytics across the enterprise — including branches, plant assets, fleets, and inventory — are required. Cecere writes, “Realize the latency and distortion of the current demand planning programs and build outside-in processes. Disparate or siloed systems will make consolidating capital harder.”

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. The only option was to try to reduce levels of inventory, which, up to that point, had been kept very high to support a nine-week order cycle.

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Mindmap for the Fashion & Luxury Goods Market

Supply Chain Movement

In the global fashion and luxury goods market, ever-higher customer expectations, combined with demographic and economic shifts, are making it increasingly difficult to predict consumer behaviour and plan accordingly. Fashion and luxury goods manufacturers are defining their own seasons, which is making the planning of campaigns more complex.