Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 1, 2014

Last week, I was on a call with a client that was looking for a consulting partner to help redesign demand planning processes. The organization had implemented a good demand planning technology, but badly ten years ago. Demand planning cannot be done well on a spreadsheet. It starts with talent.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 30, 2018

In Gartner’s report Enhance Demand-Planning Maturity through a Scalable and Sustainable Technology Strategy , the analyst firm recommends building a technology foundation to support advanced demand planning. Fortunately, supply chain teams can make their cases for step-wise investments in skills and tools.

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Kinaxis

JULY 26, 2018

Knowing of planned shutdowns and having the ability to perform what-if scenarios would allow their planners to extrapolate the impact of the shortage across the supply chain, giving them the opportunity to plan demand forecasting accordingly with alternate suppliers. When variable inputs (weather, cultural, geopolitical, etc.)

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Logility

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In an era marked by rapid market shifts and evolving business landscapes, precision and speed in demand planning have transcended from being mere advantages to absolute imperatives. This was the central theme of Piet Buyck’s recent webinar, “Implementing an AI-First Demand Planning Solution.”

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Silvon Software

JANUARY 25, 2023

Collaboration between Sales and Operations professionals in the demand planning process is critical if you want to achieve better delivery rates, higher service levels, fewer stock-outs and increased customer satisfaction. THE DEMAND PLANNING PROCESS (FOR SALES) Simplify the inputs needed by Sales.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In the companies that do it well, there are established career paths that reward planning. When groups are doing well, you don’t hear stories like these: “Yesterday, I presented the demand plan to my boss. He asked me to go back to my desk and create a better plan. What I Hear in Discussions.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 21, 2024

The event will feature a presentation by one of ToolsGroup’s valued customers, Franke, an industry leader in home solutions, food service systems and coffee equipment, scheduled for June 11.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 6, 2020

Demand planning, however, gets even tougher for manufacturers with the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. How will demand change now that a global pandemic has forced many bars and restaurants to close for weeks? Demand planning during a global pandemic. But manufacturers still have to generate demand scenarios.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 30, 2022

Jabil, perhaps, should not have made these commitments because their customer oversaw the demand planning process and then forwarded their forecast to Jabil. This is normally how things are done; customers give a contract manufacturer their demand projection and it is the job of the contract manufacturer to execute that plan.

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Logility

MARCH 6, 2020

Stakeholders who care about forecasting in demand planning care about accuracy, and usually will not accept a new forecasting method unless it is rigorously validated against known forecasting benchmarks with proven accuracy. In this way, forecast accuracy trends can be leveraged in adjusting demand planning.

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The Smart Software

APRIL 17, 2024

Smart Software CEO will present at this year's Epicor Insights event in Las Vegas. If you plan to attend this year, please join us at booth #12 and #710, and learn more about Epicor Smart Inventory Planning and Optimization. The post Smart Software to Present at Epicor Insights 2024 appeared first on Smart Software.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

My friends would tell me to relax and get my Groove on b ut, I find myself deep into a presentation for a client’s design thinking session next week. Note that at this time, demand volatility risk was larger than economic uncertainty. However, we have made little progress to mitigate demand variability as a supply chain risk.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

MARCH 2023 – ToolsGroup earned a Higher Performer badge in G2’s Demand Planning Grid® – G2’s scoring criteria is that products shown on the Grid® for Demand Planning have received a minimum of 10 reviews/ratings in data gathered by March 07, 2023. Read the press release here. Access the report here.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Well, what a year it has been. As 2020 stutters and stumbles to the end we all need to think about how our Supply Chains will operate in 2021 and beyond. Just like those old school photographs, your steady-state, stable 2018 set-up has gone and will never return.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 11, 2019

MANN+HUMMEL to Present How It Partnered with ToolsGroup to Increase Fill Rate and Cut Inventory. BOSTON, June 11, 2019 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, today shared details of its participation in the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, taking place June 17-19 in Barcelona. On June 19 at 2:30 p.m.,

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 7, 2014

In this main stage presentation, Kinaxis customer Jim White, vice president of central operations with Applied Materials presents their story. It’s a low-volume, high-mix world – making accurate demand planning extremely difficult.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 23, 2014

There’s no better time than the present. Spreadsheet-based planning – and even certain sophisticated planning tools – can fail to give you the visibility you need to check the accuracy of your delivery dates. Tip 4: Create single demand forecasts that cover multiple channels. Tip 6: Break down the demand plan.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Many virtual attendees were also present, with representatives from across logistics, procurement, manufacturing, IT and sustainability not only learning from the esteemed speakers presenting, but also sharing their expertise and experiences. All this ensures the most holistic approach to supply chain management on a single platform.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The planner could then immediately model adjustments and commit an improved forecast back to the master demand planning system. . You may have determined already that c ausal f orecasting works best in certain environments and does present some challenges. Some Things to Bear in Mind .

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

A well-executed sales and operations planning process can transform a company; allowing them to better control inventory and costs while meeting rapidly changing demand pictures. It does this by gaining alignment across the sales, demand planning, manufacturing and finance organization.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The process of problem-solving often bonds people together and keeps the culture in the present. Well, these periodic Braintrust sessions remind me a lot of Consensus Demand Planning and Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP). If one agenda wins, we all lose. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 18, 2014

I had worked hard to teach the team presenting to talk the language of demand , but it was not understood at the board-room level. I asked myself, “How ironic is it that the technologies and processes of the past are always presented as the answer.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The result is an end-to-end planning process operating on the highest quality data possible. Centralized Demand Planning became the cornerstone that streamlined operations, leading to not just efficiency but an alignment across functions across the entire organization.

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Logility

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Lets dive in… The Myth of One-Size-Fits-All Forecasts The notion that a single forecasting method is sufficient for a product’s entire lifecycle is a widespread misunderstanding in demand planning. This idea fails to recognize the ever-changing nature of market landscapes and the varied demands of different products.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Supply chain and procurement executives should urgently pay heed to the need to make sure it is distributed to them, said Jay Koganti, vice president supply chain at the Center of Excellence of Estée Lauder , during a presentation titled “ AI Trends Transforming Supply Chain – and How Leaders Should Respond,” at the DPW New York conference June 11.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 13, 2017

In the 2017 Supply Chain Management Executive Conference presentation Exploring the Major Changes in Supply Chain Planning Technology through the Five Stages of Maturity , Gartner analyst Tim Payne described a representative tool for each level of supply chain maturity. They want higher-fidelity plans. Demand Planning.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

According to Ben, who oversees Chainalytics’s Integrated Demand and Supply Planning practice (which includes their Demand Planning Intelligence Consortium), many companies take last year's forecast accuracy metric and simply add a few percentage points to establish the coming year’s goals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2025

Seeing Signals Through the Noise In supply chain planning, separating the signal from the noise is paramount. Planners need the right information at the right time, presented with the proper context, to make meaningful decisions. To break through the noise requires context.

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Logility

JULY 31, 2024

Traditional demand planning has long been owned by only the supply chain organization – gathering data from all corners of the business through lengthy spreadsheets and often leaving out critical information. The collaboration here is part of the Demand Planning process which is the start of the S&OP process for most companies.

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Logility

JULY 31, 2024

Traditional demand planning has long been owned by only the supply chain organization – gathering data from all corners of the business through lengthy spreadsheets and often leaving out critical information. The collaboration here is part of the Demand Planning process which is the start of the S&OP process for most companies.

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Logility

JULY 30, 2024

Sense quantifiable changes : The resident applications, specifically, demand planning, supply planning, and inventory planning all have key variables that contribute to a network model. A critical step to Continuous Network Optimization is for the rapid and systematic presentation of recommendations to decision makers.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

A few of the presentations in London, such as a highly provocative key note by John Philips of PepsiCo are a repeat from this prior event. Digital supply chains enable transition to selling services instead of products: Simon Bailey of Gartner made a very compelling presentation on the opportunities that digital supply chains enable.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last week, I gave the keynote presentation at the Dangerous Goods Symposium, sponsored by LabelMaster and the DG Exchange. In my presentation, I highlighted five key transportation trends that are changing supply chains from a technology standpoint. Can Improving Forecast Accuracy Address Our Demand Planning Woes?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2017

On Tuesday this week I will present the findings from the recent Supply Chain Insights study at the Penn State Forum. As I worked on my presentation, three themes emerged. Today’s manufacturing organizations struggle to find talent at the intersection of analytics and planning. 1) Opportunity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2022

If the order is fulfilled by a suboptimal fulfillment location, it looks to the demand planning application like the demand originated from that location. Walgreen is intrigued by functionality that better integrates inventory planning with order fulfillment. The problem with this is that forecasts are based on history.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On Friday, I presented an overview of outside-in planning to a consulting group. I love the questions when I present. Today, I am again teaching an open class on outside-in planning concept s. The reason? The dialogue helps me to think more deeply to explain the concepts. The models also need slight tweaking.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

They were very proud of their work in planning with a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers. So my question to the presenter was, “Why waste your time trying to improve a traditional demand planning approach when you could do so much more?” Today the order represents three to four months of demand latency.

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