AIMMS

JULY 23, 2019

The agribusiness supply chain is highly complex. It’s not limited to managing crops and livestock, but encompasses all equipment, services, and product processing as well as commercialization. Forecasting demand for agribusiness products is also challenging. That is, after all, what S&OP (or IBP) is all about.

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The Network Effect

JULY 10, 2015

Pursuing improved forecasts is certainly not an academic exercise. Layering a demand sensing capability onto the overall demand management process will generate significant improvements to a company’s core KPI’s. Revenue will improve given the ability to sense and react to changes in demand and capturing additional sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2022

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. This article is from Asena Denizeri & Anil Gurbuz at Solvoyo and examines the challenges around supply chain planning for 2022 and beyond.

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IT Supply Chain

AUGUST 25, 2021

The post Regular evaluation of threat models & red-team exercises now common practice appeared first on IT Supply Chain. By Ramsés Gallego (pictured). International CTO, Micro Focus.

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AIMMS

JULY 23, 2019

The agribusiness supply chain is highly complex. It’s not limited to managing crops and livestock, but encompasses all equipment, services, and product processing as well as commercialization. Forecasting demand for agribusiness products is also challenging. Many of these factors are difficult to control and predict.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

How Do You Turn a Good Demand Forecast into the Optimum Inventory Plan? Your customers don’t care if you have a great demand forecast. How do you turn a good forecast into a great inventory plan? A solid foundation can segment demand signals. Demand is not what you shipped in the past.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars has been on a journey to transform their digital supply chain. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. Mars’s Digital Transformation Mr. Beery started by asking, “what does a digital supply chain mean for us?”

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 19, 2021

When collaboration occurs during cross-functional exercises like demand planning , many times it leads to less-than-impressive results, friction, and finger-pointing. Unfortunately, demand planners—those responsible for creating demand forecasts—are usually caught in the middle.

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 19, 2021

When collaboration occurs during cross-functional exercises like demand planning , many times it leads to less-than-impressive results, friction, and finger-pointing. Unfortunately, demand planners—those responsible for creating demand forecasts—are usually caught in the middle.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Often, the terms, “forecasting” and “demand planning”, are used interchangeably. . As a component of demand planning, forecasting is necessary, but not sufficient. Demand planning is that process by which a business anticipates market requirements. .

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Supply Chain Action Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Often, the terms, “forecasting” and “demand planning”, are used interchangeably. . As a component of demand planning, forecasting is necessary, but not sufficient. Demand planning is that process by which a business anticipates market requirements. .

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 11, 2017

I’ve always maintained that improving demand forecast accuracy, as helpful as it can be, shouldn’t be the end goal itself, but simply a means to the end. Gartner says that you shouldn’t just pitch forecast accuracy to your executive management, but translate your plan into business metrics. “You

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Logility

JULY 26, 2022

Supply chain design is no longer the ‘create it, set it, and walk away’ exercise that it once was. The acceleration of e-commerce, impact of shortages, and ever-evolving shifts in customer demand and economic realities require a framework that is flexible enough to change under the best of conditions as well as the worst.

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Adexa

MAY 3, 2023

Use of AI/ML to Decide Cycle-times is a Futile Exercise Many companies are dealing with variability of cycle times and changes in the mix of products that make it hard for them to commit to their customers with a more accurate delivery time. The post Use of AI/ML to Decide Cycle-times is a Futile Exercise appeared first on Adexa.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 7, 2011

(NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today (June 7th) announced that the company has extended its cloud -based business management suite with new demand planning features. allowing companies to tightly align sales forecasts with inventory replenishment plans.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

Lower stocks, happier customers and fewer supply chain disruptions – those are all important benefits of effective sales & operations planning (S&OP), according to research conducted by consulting firm BearingPoint among a primarily European target group. “The Many companies struggle to forecast demand.

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Demand planning can be hard—really hard. Here are the top 5 challenges that demand planners face. Creating a demand plan means consolidating information from multiple teams to get key information like sales activity or promotion information. Collecting key information is a weekly ‘cat-herding’ exercise.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 11, 2022

European Union governments will launch later this week a large-scale simulation of cyberattacks against multiple member states.

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Logility

MAY 17, 2023

The urgent need for supply chain resiliency is increasing interest in onshoring, reshoring, and nearshoring strategies. After years of economic volatility, labor shortages, extreme weather, demand and supply shocks, and geopolitical tensions, supply chain leaders are looking to calm the chaos and bring back predictability.

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ThroughPut

MAY 2, 2024

Thanks to the increasing competition in today’s global markets, growing customer expectations, and the rising demand for products with shorter life cycles, most businesses have been forced to sharply focus their attention on accurate demand sensing – and planning for it – to stay profitable and sustainable.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Victoria Ma, digital and innovation lead for North America with Miebach Consulting, explains how the exercise of process mining can help supply chains achieve a new level of agility in responding to orders and unexpected changes in customer demand.

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Adexa

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Is Supply Chain Visibility the Answer? Many supply chain professionals are putting much focus on systems to get better supply chain visibility including, so called, Control Towers and S&OP solutions. The post Is Supply Chain Visibility the Answer? The post Is Supply Chain Visibility the Answer?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Recent supply chain disruptions are forcing organizations to challenge the prevailing wisdom and look for newer approaches to decision making. The simultaneous shocks to demand and supply, and the magnitude of these shocks are not something the world ever experienced.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

After a dramatic drop at the beginning of the pandemic, Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software public valuations are near twice the ten-year average. The majority of the transactions are in Enterprise Resource Planning (91) versus supply chain planning (31). Lack Of Grounding.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 20, 2021

The supply chain shocks of 2020 brought this challenge into focus. Inventory should act as a buffer to adsorb variability and decouple the demand from the supply side of our supply chains. We hope it serves as a though-provoking exercise to improve your approach! . Inventory management has always been challenging.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Respond quickly, maximize benefits, and identify supply chain opportunities and threats. Supply chain disruptions. Smart organizations have embraced supply chain management platforms that provide complete transparency. The Human Component of Digital Supply Chains. Will this sort of supply chain ever become a reality?

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Logility

MARCH 19, 2021

When a crisis hits, having the right advanced analytics to react to supply chain disruptions in food and beverage is your best defense. In fact, here’s an excellent blog post listing the challenges and the foundational elements – people, process and technology – needed to build a strong and resilient supply chain in F&B.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

By the end of 2022, half of all manufacturing supply chains will see the benefits of supply chain resiliency, resulting in a 10% reduction in disruption impact.”. The constant changes of a world affected by a global virus will continue, impacting supply, demand, and operations through health, lifestyle and regulation.

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Logility

MAY 12, 2020

As a former Director of Supply Chain Management for a multi-national, multi-channel food manufacturer, I experienced first-hand the variety of challenging problems faced by supply chain planners in the unforgiving Food and Beverage Industry. As the first person with a title of supply chain management at a $2.5B

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

A Supply Chain Design Solution from Coupa Imagine you’ve just received the job offer of your dreams. If you have been through this process at least once, you already have a good idea of what supply chain design is about: optimization. Moreover, this exercise might need to be repeated several times depending on how the war proceeds.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 31, 2016

My S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems. 64% think there is not enough coordinated innovation in S&OP processes. Where to go from here for S&OP?

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Logility

MAY 6, 2021

Dramatic shifts are happening too quickly to reserve strategic planning as a traditionally annual exercise. Technologies that automate and accelerate the entire exercise help ensure forecasting and decision-making are flexible, nuanced, and responsive enough to allow the company to move forward rapidly.

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Logility

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We just wrapped up Disruption RX, a virtual supply chain summit designed to help companies rebound from unplanned shocks to their digital supply chain. Look at it this way: a global economy requires global supply chains, and that means more touchpoints, more opportunities for disruption, and more intricate cause-and-effect scenarios.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the resiliency test. Let’s start here: what is supply chain resilience? What is Supply Chain Resilience? 2020 Was A Year Of Supply Chain Disruption. What do we mean by that?

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 8, 2021

A proof of concept (POC) is an increasingly common method to select the best supply chain software vendor for your company, yet many supply chain practitioners still lean on the traditional RFI (request for information) tool. If you’ve been through a supply chain project before, you know that’s not always the case. #2

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For more than a year, global supply chains have been buffeted by one major disruption after another. Raw materials are in short supply, many manufacturers have temporarily mothballed production lines, transportation costs are rising, and labor is getting tight on our roadways , railways and ocean vessels. The impact?

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