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Ways Food and Beverage can Build Resilience with Supply Chain Optimization Software

Logility

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. The key to creating an effective market-driven demand plan is access to rich forecasts based on inputs from multiple sources.

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Improve Forecast Quality and Reliability with Value-add Forecasting (Part 1)

Logility

The ability to effectively forecast demand is essential for supply chain management decisions. In fact, demand forecasts are used throughout the supply chain including supply chain design, purchasing, operations, inventory, and sales and marketing. procurement, operations, inventory, sales and marketing).

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Planning Seasonal Food Production in Uncertain Times

DELMIA Quintiq

In any regular year, manufacturers of seasonal foods such as ice cream, beer and BBQ meat have to deal with uncertainty because consumption of their products are highly dependent on food trends and the weather. The impact on inventory and demand will depend on the extent and timing of the pandemic ending. That’ll be too late.

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What Technology are Teams Using to Support Their Demand Forecasting Process?

AIMMS

Part II in our series on assessing your Demand Forecasting process . In Part I of this series , we looked at supply chain professionals’ perception of forecast accuracy and how they see their forecast evolving in the future. The use of technology for demand forecasting is widespread .

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2021 Logistics Outlook: Truckload Freight Market Forecast

GlobalTranz

The volatility of 2020 and the uncertainties looming into 2021 make it difficult to forecast planning and budgets based on historical data. A pet-buying spree drove sales of dog food and other pet supplies, as people adopted pets to keep them company during the lockdowns. Rethink Inventory. Rather than focus on regional D.C.s,

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

Unleashed

Demand forecasting has gained increasing importance over the last few years. We met with five supply chain experts to discuss how crucial demand forecasting is for mitigating risk, and what businesses can do to improve forecast accuracy. Our experts explain that best-practice demand planning begins with a top-down forecast.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

With the evolution of eCommerce, shifts in regional preferences, complexities of product portfolios, decline in forecastability, and increase in demand and supply variability, supply chain planning is more challenging. Focus on improving operating margin, inventory turns, and revenue/employee simultaneously. Reduce demand latency.