Unleashed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The onset of COVID and the rapidly changing environment of a pandemic-hit world has meant demand planning has become more difficult – and as a result, more critical – than ever. What is demand planning? Demand planning is the process of predicting what customer demand will be for a certain product.

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SupplyPike

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

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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ToolsGroup

JUNE 6, 2023

MILAN and BOSTON – June 6, 2023 – ToolsGroup , a global leader in retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, is thrilled to announce it has been selected by D.I.MAR, an Italian leader in the frozen food industry, to heighten its supply chain performance, bolster supplier relationships, and drive enhanced business results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns. When compared to pre-recession years, we ended the decade with twenty more days of inventory. Days of Inventory Comparison. Now, let’s take consumer products. What can we learn?

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ThroughPut

AUGUST 24, 2021

Earlier in the day, demand planning was a guessing game that relied more on intuition, instinct, and inclination. Companies that leveraged the data they collected to enable more accurate demand planning, distinguished themselves from their competitors. Why do you need new-age demand sensing to solve modern problems?

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Unleashed

JULY 2, 2023

Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO) is a fundamental inventory metric for measuring efficiency and liquidity inside a product business. It’s used frequently in inventory accounting to help businesses understand their holding costs and make optimised purchasing decisions. What is Days Inventory Outstanding?

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ThroughPut

JULY 6, 2021

Thriving In ‘The New Normal’ With 5 Demand Planning & Forecasting Methods. Businesses around the world are pondering upon these questions and each of them leads to a simple answer – effective supply chain demand planning and forecasting. Understanding and predicting demand in unpredictable times .

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ThroughPut

APRIL 30, 2024

Logility: Supply Chain Planning & Optimization Logility assists global businesses with complex supply chains in sensing and responding to fluctuating market conditions. The platform is designed to enhance inventory management and provide accurate demand planning and forecasting, crucial for optimizing supply chain efficiency.

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Unleashed

JUNE 7, 2023

Inventory optimisation is the process that enables efficient inventory management. It allows businesses to sustainably control stock and sell products despite shifts in customer demand or unexpected supply issues. In this inventory optimisation guide: What is inventory optimisation?

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). Metrics that Matter became a three year research project. I realized that many organizations are very confused about metrics. So I started this book as a summary of this research.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 29, 2024

Warehousing: Warehousing involves the storage and management of inventory. It also involves inventory management, order fulfillment, and monitoring stock levels. Demand Planning: Demand planning involves forecasting customer demand based on historical data, market trends, and other relevant factors.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 5, 2017

What your demand planning organization does is key to where it sits and how it needs to be structured. What follows is a high-level look at the processes that a robust demand planning function supports. Demand Planning Supported Processes. And producing the demand plan is a combination of science and art.

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Unleashed

APRIL 9, 2024

To measure how effective a company is at delivering complete orders on time, you can use the aptly named On Time in Full (OTIF) metric. OTIF meaning On Time in Full (OTIF) is a supply chain management metric that tracks a supplier’s ability to meet delivery promises. Why is OTIF an important supply chain management metric?

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crisp

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

From demand planning to execution, Crisp’s CPG experts offer everything brands need to know for a successful holiday season (and the common mistakes to avoid). They’re also a chaotic time, with inevitable challenges from inventory availability to tighter margins. Create a demand plan.

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ThroughPut

MAY 2, 2024

Add to that the growing demands of sustainability all around! Achieving any kind of business and operational efficiency is possible only when you lead plans by demand. However, demand planning is a complex function and ineffective demand planning can spell doom in the modern commercial world.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The question was, “How can I redefine demand planning processes to use channel data?” The Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. Starting to understand the issue with multi-tier demand planning?

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BlueYonder

APRIL 5, 2017

What your demand planning organization does is key to where it sits and how it needs to be structured. What follows is a high-level look at the processes that a robust demand planning function supports. Demand Planning Supported Processes. And producing the demand plan is a combination of science and art.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As a result, a wide range of businesses, from restaurants, and retail chains, to manufacturers, have been redesigning their business services and operations and re-engineering their supply chains. Emerging Themes for Supply Chain Planning. They can adjust quantities and generate supplier replenishment orders in PDF or Excel as needed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

The goal of an SCP implementation was to effectively balance demand and supply. Here, Mars Wrigley leveraged using Kinaxis for both demand and supply planning. Kinaxis is a proponent of using network planners for both supply and demand planning rather than having the planners operate in silos.

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6 River Systems

AUGUST 19, 2020

Today, anyone can start a retail business with a couple of clicks on a laptop from a café. Manufacturing companies have the option of selling directly to consumers without the help of any retail middle men. Here are five supply chain management tips for the retail industry to bring in sustainable profits.

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o9 Solutions

APRIL 21, 2020

What-if scenario Planning Tell us your most challenging Replenishment Planning use cases and experience it on o9’s platform Request a demo that will highlight the capabilities that matter to you First Name * Last Name * Email * Phone number Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Of all the most common metrics used to measure supply chain performance, forecast accuracy is the most difficult for colleagues outside of the supply chain function to relate to corporate goals like customer satisfaction and profitability. Inventory metrics are less intuitive, but ever since U.S.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

retail stores. Given these staggering statistics, what are demand forecasters to do? Traditional planning systems weren’t designed to handle today’s demand volatility, service expectations and hyper-fast pace of new trends proliferated online. The stakes are even higher when dealing with perishable products.

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SupplyPike

APRIL 10, 2020

Learn how to: Keep your logistics on time and prepared Maintain your replenishment goals Properly forecast and redefine your demand plan Use technology to help. Shortages, extreme demand, and panic buying are causing issues up and down supply chains. This may include halting promotions for high demand products.

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SupplyPike

JULY 2, 2020

By merging actionable insights and identifying the best analytic solution for their CPG company, retail and CPG brands can analyze and capitalize on the data when the time is just perfect. This creates an image of your implementation in the retail outlet and also the potential discovered by your representatives during their visit.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

In this context, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, has demonstrated a highly successful and integrated Walmart supply chain, propelling its growth and dominance in the retail industry. By employing these technologies, Walmart gains valuable insights into customer buying behavior, sales trends, and inventory levels.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Additionally, 54% are seeking improved service levels in the coming year, and only 14% have a machine learning project underway, meaning for many AI-augmented planning is still more hype than adoption. Our customers overcome demand volatility and supply chain complexity for outstanding service levels with reduced inventory.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

JULY 15, 2022

Of all the most common metrics used to measure supply chain performance, forecast accuracy is the most difficult for colleagues outside of the supply chain function to relate to corporate goals like customer satisfaction and profitability. Inventory metrics are less intuitive, but ever since U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

With the shift of power to the retailer, both have had to add headcount to manage the increased demands for sales to staff account-specific teams to better manage against retailer expectations. General Mills is much better at planning than Kellogg. Metrics Alignment. They lack cohesion.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Businesses can access historical data, market trends, and other external factors and, by plugging in predictive analytics, gain invaluable insights that streamline inventory management, demand forecasting, transportation planning, risk mitigation, and overall decision-making processes. Let’s check out the most common use cases.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 11, 2014

A question that begs to be asked is – might it then be possible and also about time, that a reinvigorated attempt is made to apply similar principles to the retail supply chain? The constituents— suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers, and retailers— generally execute their individual roles well.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 8, 2013

In the Supply Chain Metrics that Matter table, we can clearly see that “operating margin” and “inventory turns” matter to public financial performance. Note the trends in operating margins and inventory turns. Each faces four years of deterioration on this important supply chain metric.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Step Up Demand Planning Efforts with a Robust Forecasting Model . Understanding and predicting demand in unpredictable times. Modern businesses have access to huge amounts of data so demand planning and forecasting should be easier. But demand planning still remains a game of assumptions and estimations.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

In previous years, many companies only focused on getting product into Jakarta (the country’s largest city) and satisfying demand there. fast food or retail) are rapidly expanding. Not knowing how much inventory is at each location. Infrastructure is the most often mentioned challenge. “We Transfer taxes.

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E2open

MARCH 1, 2018

Store demand in general was a theoretical concept, sometimes heard about and seldom utilized. . Now, however, since Walmart’s DCs and stores won’t be storing inventory in excess of optimal levels determined by demand and supply characteristics, they’ll effectively be passing the end consumer demand through to CPG companies.

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E2open

MARCH 1, 2018

Store demand in general was a theoretical concept, sometimes heard about and seldom utilized. . Now, however, since Walmart’s DCs and stores won’t be storing inventory in excess of optimal levels determined by demand and supply characteristics, they’ll effectively be passing the end consumer demand through to CPG companies.

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Alloy

AUGUST 6, 2019

Other retailers large and small saw a spike in their U.S. For larger retailers, sales jumped 64% compared to an average Monday, up from a 54% increase last year. For niche retailers, online sales increased 30%. An important related metric is the conversion rate from page views to sales.

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