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Supply Chain Segmentation: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

BlueYonder

Last month JDA teamed up with IndustryWeek and Altera Corporation to present a Webcast on the topic of supply chain segmentation titled: One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Altera’s Supply Chain Segmentation Journey to Profitable Growth. Featured Manufacturing Supply Chain'

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Adapting in the Face of Change

Supply Chain Shaman

To make the point, let us start with a discussion on Consumer Products manufacturing. Clorox based on their supply chain segmentation work is also clearer on strategy helping the company to be more balanced cross-functionally as they face the headwinds of market turmoil. For example, a “buy plan” for procurement.

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Building Your Supply Chain Strategy: Defining Customer-Centric Supply Chain Design for Manufacturing Companies

BlueYonder

In Part II I explained how seeking inspiration from retailers can help manufacturing companies move beyond supply chain segmentation to embrace customer-centricity. This post will explore the three capabilities essential to supply chain redesign.

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Becoming demand-driven on command

Supply Chain Movement

Each organization has a product line with defined forecastability and product tail (characteristics of product demand by item). After you implement, demand planning well, there is little that you can do to improve the bias and the accuracy of the forecasting process. Help the organization to embrace the probability of demand.”

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5 Tips for Supply Chain Planning in a Turbulent Environment

CHAINalytics

Almost every company is currently experiencing demand disruption. Food and consumer goods manufacturers along with their retail counterparts are dealing with unprecedented highs across consumer channels, while “non-essential” companies are being plagued with historical lows.

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Building Your Supply Chain Strategy: The Customer-Centric Journey Towards Supply Chain Excellence

BlueYonder

In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy. In Part II , we saw how seeking inspiration from retailers can help manufacturing companies to embrace customer-centricity.

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Supply Chain Management:Adding intelligence in the Forecasting.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Industrial Manufacturing. « Use of Predictive Analytics in Supply Chain | Main | Is Agile methodology a good solution for ERP implementations » Adding intelligence in the Forecasting process to support Supply Chain Segmentation. Automotive. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods.