The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Demand Planning in VUCA Times with Ali Raza. Ali Raza and Joe Lynch discuss demand planning in VUCA times. He has managed onshore/offshore/war zone logistics as well as batch, continuous, and discrete manufacturing setups. Key Takeaways: Demand Planning in VUCA Times. About Ali Raza.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This article will examine the challenges Belcorp faced with managing its extensive product range and complex supply chain and how our solution set, which includes Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+), Demand Planning, and the Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) model, transformed their operations. It played out as follows.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Flexible Forecast Aggregation that simplifies demand planning by allowing demand teams to plan at the aggregate level, while retaining the variables and details necessary for accurate supply planning processes. Demand planners need to be able to act quickly and decisively,” says ToolsGroup CEO, Inna Kuznetsova.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This strategic partnership aims to improve demand planning efficiency, optimize inventory performance, and elevate service levels. ToolsGroup’s suite, featuring Demand Planning , Inventory Optimization , and Replenishment modules, will help Ciavarella optimize stock levels across its network.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 16, 2023

We knew we could maintain and raise this level of service, limit waste, and improve profitability by adopting a solution that applies this innovative drive to our planning processes, streamlines collaboration, and increases forecast accuracy.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 30, 2022

The company engages in contract manufacturing services for companies. Then Jabil handles the sourcing and manufacturing of those products. Tymon’s contribution to Jabil’s offerings is a service line known as ‘planning-as-a-service.’. Manufacturing occurs at over 115 sites around the world. Jabil is a big company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Re-implement demand planning, trade promotion management, and revenue/price management together to improve the baseline demand signal. Lessons Learned. The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

ARC defines supply chain planning (SCP) products as including supply planning, demand planning/inventory optimization, and network planning. Network planning solutions include supply chain design, integrated business planning, and end-to-end supply chain analytics.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 18, 2025

Suboptimal inventory distribution: excessive stock in low-demand locations and shortages in high-demand areas. This approach isnt just about inventory reductionits about creating a responsive, resilient, and cost-efficient spare parts supply chain planning process. Its time to move beyond the guesswork in demand planning.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Some manufacturers saw a complete devastation of their keg businesses. Beer manufacturers that mainly relied on on-premise consumption are beginning to rethink their business models. Instead of large-sized packs of beer, consumers demand smaller packages that are easier to carry. A quick guide to meeting consumer demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first story is about a large regional food manufacturer. They are now on their third implementation of supply chain planning. So to put the team at ease, I spoke, “Let’s test your demand planning model to see if you can be successful with your current approach.” Let’s Be Customer Centric.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

HEINEKEN showcases its outstanding demand planning results With over 700 attendees, the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit was a great opportunity to meet with other planning professionals, discuss our common challenges around intelligent planning, learn from industry thought leaders and hear some truly impressive customer success stories.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

ToolsGroup was ranked #1 in current capabilities for Spare Parts/MRO supply chain planning, and an overall leader in the category. IDC specifically recommended ToolsGroup for manufacturers in all industries, especially those with large SKU offerings and/or complex distribution networks.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 6, 2020

In any regular year, manufacturers of seasonal foods such as ice cream, beer and BBQ meat have to deal with uncertainty because consumption of their products are highly dependent on food trends and the weather. Demand planning, however, gets even tougher for manufacturers with the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Its All About the Game Plan The Super Bowlmore than just a game, its an American tradition with global reach. For 58 years, food and beverage and consumer goods manufacturers have battled for dominance, from chips and wings to soda, beer, party supplies, and even aluminum foil for food storage and DIY trophies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Forecast consumption into supply planning based on rules (rules-based-consumption). Translation of the demand forecast into planned orders to minimize manufacturing constraints. Matching demand and supply in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). Plan adherence in production scheduling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

The company reduced its manufacturing dependency on China by approximately 80% in response to increasing tariffs and operational risks. The digital twin enables scenario planning and stress testing of the network, helping Cisco make more informed and agile supply chain decisions.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This transformation delivers many benefits, including increased sustainability, but it also creates demand-planning and production-planning challenges. To profitably serve demand, automakers need to get the product mix right across EVs, ICEs, and hybrids — but they also need to plan precisely by channel and region.

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QAD

JANUARY 21, 2025

Blending Forecasting, Production Planning, Advanced Scheduling and a Connected Shop Floor For manufacturers, the difference between success and failure often comes down to how well you can synchronize your people, processes and systems. Lets take a step back and consider a challenge most manufacturers face: demand volatility.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 14, 2025

Suboptimal inventory distribution: excessive stock in low-demand locations and shortages in high-demand areas. This approach isnt just about inventory reductionits about creating a responsive, resilient, and cost-efficient spare parts supply chain planning process. Its time to move beyond the guesswork in demand planning.

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QAD

MAY 15, 2025

Updated: May 15, 2025 Published: March 16, 2022 So much of what goes into running a manufacturing operation involves planning ahead. One of those areas is capacity requirements planning. Proper capacity requirements planning is critical to manufacturing success, as this process determines if a company can even deliver on orders.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The ability to efficiently manage the flow of goods and services from manufacturing to the end consumer is paramount. Cognitive Demand Planning enabled by AI-powered insights allows planners to map out various levers in a scenario, set boundary values, the fire-and-forget. appeared first on Supply Chain Nation.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Download our ebook: Demand Forecast Is Why You Need to Adopt a Service-Driven Supply Chain Strategy Top Four Strategies for Demand Forecasting Success In the current landscape, the challenges of supply chain disruptions remain a pressing concern.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Download our ebook: Demand Forecast Is Why You Need to Adopt a Service-Driven Supply Chain Strategy Top Four Strategies for Demand Forecasting Success In the current landscape, the challenges of supply chain disruptions remain a pressing concern.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This sector is driven by several factors, including the ageing vehicle population, the rise of e-commerce platforms , and technological advancements in vehicle manufacturing. As vehicles age, they require more frequent maintenance, leading to increased demand for aftermarket parts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 2, 2025

We have not designed the planning systems to serve managers, directors, and vice presidents, aiming to improve decision-making and collaboration across the source, make, and deliver processes. This could all change if we discard our current definitions of supply chain planning and start anew.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2023

The current taxonomy (or frame/models) for the engines does not address the issues of the global multinational manufacturing company. In the Global Supply Chain, there are More Constraints To Address Than Just Manufacturing. Companies need a planning solution to analyze the trade-offs between make, source, and deliver.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 21, 2014

For example, in a hospital, it is the translation of usage in a procedure to hospital order to a distributor and the translation of that usage to an order for a manufacturer. For the translation of a purchase of Aleve at a retail outlet store to Bayer, the manufacturer is 60 days. Demand Translation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This manufacturer produces plastic reusable material handling containers and plastic fuel tanks. The Company operates eighteen manufacturing facilities, nine distribution centers located throughout North and Central America. There was limited demand planning that tied back to our actual manufacturing capabilities,” Mr. Baker explained.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

The Manufacturing sector is swiftly integrating new technology to fulfill requirements in demand planning, quality control, sustainability, and supply chain objectives.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 28, 2023

With a complete set of out-of-the-box capabilities for demand planning, inventory optimization, and replenishment, companies experience shorter time to implement and faster time to value. ToolsGroup’s continued focus on customers has driven technological innovations that make its solutions invaluable to midmarket companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

Integrated Planning: Tight Coupling of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to Supply Chain Planning (SCP). When companies tell me that they need to exchange their current Supply Chain Planning (SCP) from a best-of-breed provider to get a leg-up, I ask, “Why?” Demand planning is less industry specific than supply.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

Companies have a known problem synchronizing their supply chain plans with what can actually be executed. Manufacturers refer to it as the “shop floor to top floor disconnect.” A supply planning solution may only be able to achieve rough-cut capacity planning for a large, complex supply chain.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

With Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+) ToolsGroup’s manufacturing customers commonly achieve a 10-30% reduction in inventory, improve product availability to 96% or better, and reduce overhead (such as overtime and expedited freight) by 50%. Increased service level from 87% to 97%, even during seasonal demand peaks. Forecast errors halved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Interestingly, in Q3 2023, 38% of manufacturers, distributors and retailers missed their target for revenue guidance for the quarter. The result was restatement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

During the early months of the pandemic, demand planning error jumped to 59%, up 14% from the pre-pandemic error rate of 45%. No matter what kind of demand planning solution was used, forecasting accuracy dropped. For the most part, the companies participating in this study manufacture goods that end up in grocery stores.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

End users – supply chain practitioners working for manufacturers, distributors, or retailers – can attend for free. Manufacturing automation – including 3D printing (also called additive manufacturing) – is making it easier to create many, many more product variants. But we ended up with a good problem.

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