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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

I know that your primary focus is procurement. If S&OP efforts were that effective, don’t you think that we would have made more progress against inventory levels, margin, and growth? In part, this results in increasing swings in inventory in response to shifts in consumer demand as one moves further up the supply chain.

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

This means continuously assessing the trade-off between the total cost to serve and meeting customer demand and minimizing lost sales. The increasing need for constantly analyzing these trade-offs across the supply chain networks has highlighted the need for digital twins and what-if capabilities in network design solutions.

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My Take: LLamasoft Buys Barloworld Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

This acquisition is deeply rooted in LLamasoft’s goal to dominate the network design market. The current company is stronger in North America than Europe. LLamasoft Is Aggressively Aggregating Network Design Software Assets. The Acquisition Is a Mixed Bag for the Inventory Management Market.

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Bristlecone Flash – October 2020

Bristlecone

For one manufacturing client, a recent diagnostics assessment identified key opportunities in supply chain planning process improvements, logistics optimization and reporting enhancements. Recent highlights include: Go-lives across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. PURCHASE ORDER ACCRUALS. Performance Management.

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7 Best Supply Chain Books of All Time

Supply Chain Opz

Anyway, the access to this database costs an arm and a leg. Therefore, the challenge to establish the ranking method is to find a more economical data source and the unbiased metrics. How about its counterpart in Europe? Obsolete and out-of-print books are not included. The links below are #paid links.

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What About Them Apples?

Supply Chain Shaman

If we look back at history, 70% of companies implemented Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), however two-decades later only 1% of companies use VMI processes to drive a better demand signal. ” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.”

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Join Thousands of Students in MIT’s Digital Supply Chain Classroom

MIT Supply Chain

The SCx materials will be available on-line at no cost to students or working professionals. Additionally, the same material will be used to complement the in-residence teaching at MIT as well as at MIT’s three Global SCALE Network sister centers in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. CTL.SC2x – Supply Chain Design (spring 2014).