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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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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The Smart Software

MAY 19, 2022

Smart Software CEO will present at this year's Epicor Insights event in Nashville. If you plan to attend this year, please join us at booth #9 and #705, and learn more about Epicor Smart Inventory Planning and Optimization. The post Smart Software to Present at Epicor Insights 2022 appeared first on Smart Software.

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Arkieva

MARCH 22, 2017

How do you get the sense of what works for demand planning? Related Webinar: How to Use Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales & Delight Your Customers ] Improving Demand Planning. Related Webinar: How to Use Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales & Delight Your Customers ] Improving Demand Planning.

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The Smart Software

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Smart Software VP of Research to Present how next-generation analytics provide the tools to attack randomness in demand and supply, at INFORMS 2022. The post Smart Software VP of Research to Present at Business Analytics Conference, INFORMS 2022 appeared first on Smart Software.

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Arkieva

MARCH 7, 2017

To make the most out the SAPInsider SCM 2017 event, it’s imperative that event attendees plan to attend both product driven and strategy sessions that come with practical applications on how to improve current supply chain processes and optimize SAP IT investments. Click here to view the session slides. Start Now.

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The Smart Software

JULY 8, 2019

provider of industry-leading demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions, today announced that Greg Hartunian, CEO, will present at the NESCON 2019, New England Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition Keynote. The post Smart Software to Present at NESCON 2019 appeared first on Smart Software.

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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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The Smart Software

MARCH 8, 2021

Smart Software VP of Research to Present wow Probabilistic Time-Series Scenarios are used, evaluated, and automatically generated using the statistical bootstrap, at INFORMS 2021. The post Smart Software VP of Research to Present at Business Analytics Conference, INFORMS 2021 appeared first on Smart Software.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 12, 2021

So we thought it would be good to examine some key capabilities in fashion supply chain planning and the technologies that support them. Traditional demand planning will forecast safety buffers based on normal demand patterns. Fashion includes products that don’t move quickly, but are important to profitability.

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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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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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ToolsGroup

MARCH 26, 2024

Christopher Gonzales from Cornerstone will be presenting his story live on Monday afternoon. Two of Cornerstone Building Brands’ business units — Aperture Solutions – U.S., Join ToolsGroup and RiverLogic at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium , May 6-8 Orlando, FL. Book a meeting.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There is a process that is fast becoming a necessary and key component of both demand planning and sales and operations planning. I have heard it described as “forecastability”and “demand curve analysis”, among other terms, but, here, I will call it a “Demand Plan Sanity Check” or DPSC for short.

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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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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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QAD

JUNE 6, 2019

Some of the topics presented and discussed included the impact of geopolitical events on global trade, the advancement of digitization to drive augmentation and automation, and the proliferation of advanced analytics to support fact-based, real-time decision making. The Next Generation of Demand Planning: Intelligent and Real-Time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a result, we need to throw away the conventional definitions of demand planning and S&OP. The discussions are full of vacuous presentations and over-hyped promises. (The focus needs to morph from focusing on reducing error to improving reliability. How so, you might say? Let’s start here: Data Analysis.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 3, 2020

The opportunity that presents itself is to apply a postponement strategy in reorganizing the supply chain post-crisis. Peter Leith has over 15 years of demand planning experience, implementing solutions for Fortune 500 companies on five continents and defining the product strategy for a leading demand planning software provider.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 7, 2023

Attended by an international audience of over 81,000 visitors, the event highlighted the latest retail innovations and boasted best-practice keynotes and presentations on timely and crucial industry strategies. EuroShop 2023 has closed a successful five days of exhibitions and networking in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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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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Logility

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If you understand what drives your demand and which levers you can use to address market share or increase profitability, then you come to a true demand plan.” Planners strategically examine procurement and sourcing practices and align production and distribution to meet product demand.

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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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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 19, 2024

However, the industry is not immune to the risk of oversaturation, as highlighted by Marc J Metrick, CEO of Saks Fifth Avenue, who humorously noted that his Corporate communications team makes him mention AI in every investor presentation. Industry leaders such as Walmart’s U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Traditional S&OP planning often deals with product families or wide-ranging product categories and though providing valuable data, this process delivers results at an aggregate or macro level. Without a shared level of accountability challenges will present themselves and compliance will become an ongoing concern.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Overlooking sustainability can present substantial revenue risks, while embracing ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) principles can unlock a $2.1 Efficient inventory management Demand Forecasting: Use demand analytics to predict demand more accurately, thus reducing overstocking or stockouts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Cardinal Health’s senior vice president of global logistics, said of their implementation of the Kinaxis’ supply chain planning (SCP) solution, “I was scared! Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 12, 2016

Global supply chain planning boss Andrew Lewis is a believer in automating demand planning and replenishment with software. For some time now, I've wanted to be able to separate off the creation of the statistical forecast from the enrichment of it by the demand planners," Lewis says. “I

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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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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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DynaSys

JUNE 23, 2020

This is the last of this series of three articles related to the impact of COVID – 19 on demand planning. After an interesting introduction , the second article talked about the impact of COVID-19 for demand planners. The post Demand Planning Against COVID-19 – Best Practices appeared first on QAD Dynasys Blog.

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Logility

JUNE 2, 2023

Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) MAPE measures the average absolute percentage difference between the actual and forecasted demand. It’s widely used because it presents forecast accuracy in an intuitive way. Demand sensing involves using real-time datasets to predict short-term demand more accurately.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The ability to segment demand by source of supply would have immediately caught the impact of a plant closure. Planners’ visibility to trade policies may have helped with alternate sourcing plans ahead of plant closure. Read more about end-to-end supply chain planning on our website.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Welcome back to the present (assuming you’ve just been to the future and back)! 35% of companies using only Excel as #demand planning tool whereas 18% using integrated end-to-end planning tools #DemandPlan2013. Find out what you can gain with demand planning tools that you can’t with Excel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The main take aways from the presentation earlier this year were the following: The auto industry has made supply chain risk management a priority since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Mr. Niebur’s and Thiessen’s presentation was taped in November of 2021 and then played online in February.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

Thankfully, technology has progressed to a point where we are able to overcome the challenges presented by an incredibly complex stack of legacy supply chain systems that has accumulated over decades — from ERP databases to demand planning and TMS systems, to control towers, data lakes and BI solutions. Lesson learned.

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Logility

MARCH 19, 2021

Drilling down, you’ll learn that demand planning, inventory, replenishment, manufacturing and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) capabilities are the building blocks of supply chain planning excellence. This presents a perfect opportunity to simplify packaging and finally reduce SKUs, resulting in fewer set-ups.

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