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Is Your Supply Chain ‘Ready for Anything’?

ToolsGroup

Outdoor products manufacturer Thule faced growing distribution complexity and challenges due to the seasonal nature of its products, creating intermittent demand and a slow-moving spare parts inventory. . Forecast and demand planning time has been reduced by 50%, with greater accuracy and an eight point reduction in MAPE. .

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What is Supply Chain Planning Software and How Can it be Used Effectively? Part 1

DELMIA Quintiq

Referring back to the planning topics contained within the ASCM definition, each one is covered with a fully integrated planning suite including: Demand planning Often considered the gateway to improvements in supply chain planning, demand planning has the objective to better predict the demand in the market place.

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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

Yet, few are willing to raise their hands and admit that current demand planning processes of forecasting based on order or shipments do not work. Let me give you an example, price management has nothing in common with demand planning, and Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) has no commonality with transportation planning.

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My Busy day at the Richmond Supply Chain Forum

DynaSys

For this event we also took the opportunity to run a 1 hour workshop which everyone had the option to attend. Let’s talk about the future of Demand Planning” and it obviously struck a chord with many people as it was standing room only at the back! It was titled “Is forecasting really dead?

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Integrated Business Planning – A Chaucer Story

DynaSys

The consulting company came into the business to identify where Chaucer could improve sales while implementing integrated business planning process. They had education workshops been supported by Delos, where they brought the regional heads of all of our countries.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

That’s when we decided to work with AIMMS and Districon to build a tool that would help us build a better demand forecast. We are now 9-months into the process of improving our forecast levels and consolidating our demand plans and are now at a point where we can start optimizing. What did this POC Workshop look like?

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A successful S&OP ‘marriage’ depends on more than just functionality

Supply Chain Movement

The focus should be on the questions that really matter, such as how can this partner help us to gain management buy-in, to manage change, to handle the sometimes sensitive discussions about organization and skills, and to clarify the position of demand planning?

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