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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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Demand Planning Software: Your Comprehensive Guide 

Logility

Good forecasting leads to good demand planning —and good demand planning means better profitability. That’s why it’s essential to be sure you’re equipping your organization with the right demand planning software. To find the best solution for your business, you need the “what” and the “why”. What is demand planning software?

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

As companies struggled to respond to increasing business complexity—a growing number of products, channels, and markets with regional preferences—few software applications were equal to managing channel complexity. Replatforming Current Planning Solutions. Guess what? Yes, there is a great opportunity, but the question is how to jump.

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The 10 Most Important Food Industry Software Features

Unleashed

ERP software for the food industry comes in a range of shapes and sizes, but what should you look for when you’re thinking about using it for your business? Read more: The food manufacturing software your business needs 1. This is where inventory control software comes into play.

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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. Mark Houghton – CEO at Radical Cloud Solutions , our cloud solution specialist in Zimbabwe.

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Optimize Demand Planning with AI: Plan Product Mix & Sales Forecasts Effectively

ThroughPut

Food & Beverage giants like Kellog’s reported on the state of breakdown in supply chain management. Demand planning and forecasting in the traditional sense relied heavily on a combination of limited and biased data and gut instinct. The unavailability of raw materials and changing consumer patterns heavily impacted demand.