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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

Given your expertise, I’d love to hear what alternatives you recommend for better demand forecasting and real-time visibility beyond what’s commonly adopted today.” I know that your primary focus is procurement. Over the last two years, I actively engaged technologists and business leaders to redefine demand planning.

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Probabilistic Forecasting: The Future of Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

Advanced supply chain planning software leverages these probability distributions to optimize inventory targets, balancing service levels against carrying costs with mathematical precision. However, this approach ignores real purchasing behavior, such as customers buying complete sets of four tires. The result?

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Advanced Supply Chain Planning with Probabilistic Forecasting

ToolsGroup

Advanced supply chain planning software leverages these probability distributions to optimize inventory targets, balancing service levels against carrying costs with mathematical precision. However, this approach ignores real purchasing behavior, such as customers buying complete sets of four tires. The result?

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Optimization and Execution: How Manufacturing can lead the Industry Renaissance

DELMIA Quintiq

Global manufacturing today faces significant operational challenges. How should manufacturers adapt to meet the challenges and shift from product-centric to customer-centric operations? How should manufacturers adapt to meet the challenges and shift from product-centric to customer-centric operations?

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Definitions Matter

Supply Chain Shaman

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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Learning to Speak the Language of Demand

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s start with these: Demand Sensing: The reduction of time to sense purchase and channel takeaway. Demand sensing is a process, automated by technology, that reduces demand latency. For the purchase of Tide at Walmart to translate to an order at P&G, the time is 5-7 days. Independent Demand.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

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?