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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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2021

Robinson announced a partnership with SAS to “unlock a new era of dynamic business planning for Retail and CPG companies.” Here are some excerpts from the press release: Until now, supply chain demand planning and shipping execution often worked in autonomous siloes without connection, digital integration, or real-time visibility.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Focus on delivering convenience and urgency: Offer express shipping and curbside pickup. Test the checkout process for hiccups, and emphasize features like guest checkout and clear shipping timelines to minimize abandoned carts. Promote items that resonated during Black Friday to amplify demand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

During the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, sectors such as automotive, electronics, and consumer goods experienced severe disruptions due to factory shutdowns and shipping constraints, primarily because of dependence on suppliers concentrated in Asia.

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Arkieva

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Navigating the Pitfalls of Expedited Shipping was first posted on October 3, 2023 at 7:58 am. In the dynamic supply chain management landscape, one of the most challenging aspects is dealing with the differences between our forecasts and reality.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 30, 2022

Following production, Jabil shipped the final products directly to their customer’s retail customers. Jabil, perhaps, should not have made these commitments because their customer oversaw the demand planning process and then forwarded their forecast to Jabil. How, when, and by whom could demand plans be changed? “We

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

There was limited demand planning that tied back to our actual manufacturing capabilities,” Mr. Baker explained. That meant Myers had limited capabilities when it came to sales & operational planning (S&OP). The two contract manufacturers also store the finished goods and then do the shipping.”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Much of the inventory on the ships at sea will miss the essential seasonal windows.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Causal f orecasting resides between mid- and long-range planning (typically the realm of time-series planning methods) and extremely short-term Demand Sensing technology (“What should I ship today?”). . The final step is integration back to your master demand planning systems. .

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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.” The Company’s demand planning group was in finance, and the group had little knowledge of the difference between supply chain and financial forecasting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 21, 2014

As the long tail (small orders shipped with low-frequency) of the supply chain grows, demand latency increases and there is a greater need for demand sensing technologies. Independent Demand. Demand Shifting. Try to minimize demand shifting and maximize the value of demand shaping. Forecastability.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

He sees a near future in which there are multiple agents, each with their own realm of responsibility, such as shipping, pricing and forecasting. Koganti said this is the fastest-growing use of AI in supply chain, especially when it comes to forecasting, procurement and fulfillment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They implemented a simple planning technology with an outside-in channel-centric model (Ship to model definition). When they shape demand (emails to drive donors) it is done with a purpose based on the market shifts, current requirements, and blood traits. Seven elements drive success: The team is clear on the mission.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2014

In my work at Clorox we were starting to ship to Walmart using Retail Link. Companies are shipping fewer and fewer cases using VMI processes. the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal force. It was 1988. I was involved in early Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) pilots. We were excited. Figure 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Demand planning processes lack standardization and self-reported data is suspect. In the study, new products represent 17% of total cases shipped. My Take: If growth is important to your business, you cannot manage demand planning processes like you did ten years ago. Get serious about demand modeling.

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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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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

Developed under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Convention mandates that ships at the end of their operational lives must be recycled in a safe and environmentally sustainable way.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This is typically monthly planning are plans are created for the next 12 to 24 months. Only the next month’s plan firm. The key solutions are supply planning, based on a broad model of the supply chain, and demand planning. It is embedded in the integrated business planning (IBP) process. No plan is.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

The digital platform VF is transitioning to run their supply chain is SAP’s S4 HANA as the transactional backbone; Blue Yonder is being implemented for assortment planning, allocation, and retail planning; and they are implementing a solution from o9 Solutions for end-to-end supply chain planning. Conclusion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Most supply chain models are “ship from” models based on orders. A Point of Sale forecasting system requires a “ship to” model based on the channel. The models are too different to drive a clear signal from sales activity to demand planning in the supply chain.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Both Red Sea and the Suez Canal shipping lanes have been blocked by conflicts in the Middle East, increasing costs and lead times for High Tech companies importing products from Asia. Yet the static, long planning cycles, manual processes and outdated tools still in use at many High Tech companies don’t enable real-time visibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

Creating a bottom-up plan requires that data be transformed intelligently. Decades ago, the ERP market’s first big differentiator was the ability of the ERP to use a bill of materials to translate a demand plan – which forecasts in units – and then transforms those units into tons of raw materials that needed to be sourced.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Of the twenty companies interviewed, only one can answer the question, “Do you have a good inventory plan?” ” We have implemented conventional demand planning technologies and processes, yet, in eight out of ten companies that I work with, I see a negative Forecast Value Added (FVA) measurement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. Having an agent detect how long it takes to ship from a supplier site to a manufacturing facility, and then doing a running calculation on how the average lead time is changing, is trivial math. Demand Planning Models Really Can Learn.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

of in-stock products ship the same business day from our DCs; that is best of breed for any industry.” The goods flow through 2 import centers, 14 strategically located distribution centers in North America, 66 final mile shipping hubs, and nearly 1,700 branch locations. Products can be shipped to a work site or a place of business.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 25, 2017

That means planning in an environment of long-tail demand , parts that exhibit larger numbers of variability, lumpy or seasonality focused demand patterns. Traditional forecasting or demand planning techniques are often ineffective in planning parts demand in such environments. A Path to the Future.

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Bristlecone

JANUARY 8, 2025

Use cases Following are global case studies illustrating the benefits of no-touch planning: Global FMCG company automated 80% of its order-to-ship process and reduced the end-to-end processing time by 45%. Companies must focus on developing these skills internally with the help of strategic service providers.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

But, we continue to see the trend as a sales and/or a demand planning issue; something where we need better visibility to real time demand or a finer cut of demand signals. Then, they check online for deals and shipping dates. Supply Chains have primarily stayed on the outside of this challenge.

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Silvon Software

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For Greater Product Performance Visibility and Improved Sales & Demand Planning Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in an increasingly competitive environment, where the ability to access and analyze timely, accurate data can make or break a company’s success.

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Logility

JULY 10, 2023

When it’s time to do grocery shopping, you do demand planning every time you put together a list of what you might need. Congratulations – you just made a  demand plan !  After all, a demand plan is simply a forecast of how much product you need to meet demand.  Let me explain. pound of chicken and 0.25

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Machine learning has been used to improve demand forecasting since the early 2000s. Demand planning applications rely on a series of algorithms to take historical shipment data and turn it into a forecast. Supply chain planning has always been a Big Data solution.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

MDSM actually sits between mid- and long-range planning (often accomplished using aggregate time-series techniques) and extremely short-term Demand Sensing technology (“What should I ship today?”). The final step is integration back to your master demand planning systems. Some things to consider.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Problem: Uncertainty in Cement Demand Planning Accurately forecasting demand remains a critical challenge for cement manufacturers , especially in a post-pandemic world where supply chain disruptions have intensified. Key Challenges Demand planners struggle to keep up with rapid market fluctuations.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 3, 2018

These complexities, layered with globalization, shorter product life cycles , and associated volatility in demand planning, has produced the most dynamic supply chain landscape we have ever experienced. Multiple manufacturers, multiple relationships, multiple distribution models, multiple contracts.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

For example, in 2011 Amazon initiated a program called Amazon Prime (free 2-day shipping and discounted 1-day shipping). 3) Align Demand Planning Across Supply Chain. Supply chain practitioners are taught to share the demand data with trading partners so nobody has to keep the unnecessary stock.

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