ToolsGroup

MARCH 11, 2025

Demand forecasting is a critical strategy for supply chain management that can dramatically improve business decision-making and financial performance. However, securing leadership buy-in for demand forecasting technology requires a strategic approach that clearly demonstrates value.

Forecasting 156

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Retrofitting existing infrastructure with energy-efficient technologies further enhances sustainability efforts. Critical practices include: Circular Supply Chains: Designing systems that minimize waste and emphasize recycling and reuse. Advanced route optimization tools further support these goals.

Optimal Sourcing 273

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2025

This complexity has introduced gaps in visibility and responsiveness that traditional systems werent designed to handle. It is not a technology on its own, but rather a process that combines planning, execution, and monitoring through integrated tools and workflows.

Supply Chain Planning Software 165

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The global supply chain landscape is undergoing significant transformations, influenced by rapid technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations, and the intricacies of international commerce. Preparing the next generation to excel in this dynamic field requires more than traditional education methods.

Supply Chain Planning Software 96

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This requires a thorough readiness assessment, selection of appropriate technology, and careful integration with existing business processes. This assessment helps identify whether existing systems can support DPP integration and what upgrades or changes are necessary.

Resource Reduction 298

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

During his tenure in the industry, he built innovative pricing and forecasting models, leveraging internal and external data sources to improve internal decision-making and increase profitability. He leads a team of market experts who study every facet of the logistics industry to bring the best available insight to customers.

Optimal Sourcing 246

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Silvon Software

MAY 6, 2025

Thats why modern BI systems are quickly becoming the go-to solution for data-driven enterprises. They integrate, align, and activate data across the business to drive better, faster decisions unlike legacy reporting tools that can’t. But lets be clear: not all BI platforms are created equal. Why does that matter?

Prescriptive Analytics Software 88

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 21, 2025

This year’s conference brought together industry leaders, tech pioneers, and retail professionals to address challenges and opportunities, to explore technologies and strategies that promise to revolutionize the industry. Agent AI is emerging as a game-changing tool for understanding and responding to customer behavior in real-time.

Supply Chain Planning Software 156

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

If there’s a bright spot anywhere it’s the fact that, as logistics challenges have grown, so has the availability of advanced technologies to manage these challenges. For logistics teams, digital control towers add maximum value when they’re integrated with the transportation management system (TMS). Warehouse Task Automation.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 297

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

All of this points to a larger issue: systems that perform well under stable conditions but lack the flexibility to respond when those conditions change. For example, AI-enabled systems can monitor global trade activity, policy changes, and even weather patterns to flag emerging risks before they impact operations.

Optimal Sourcing 228

Optimal Sourcing Modeling Cost Reduction Strategies Supply Chain Optimization 228

ToolsGroup

MAY 8, 2025

Yet, despite significant investments in tools and talent, many organizations still struggle to connect strategic vision with real-world operations. Most S&OP efforts break down due to disconnected systems, siloed data, and a lack of cross-functional engagement. The result? Underwhelming S&OP outcomes and lost opportunities.

Inventory Reduction 156

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 1, 2024

Samuel Parker and Joe Lynch discuss DAT iQ: the metrics that matter. Samuel is an experienced market strategy and product leader with over 10 years of experience in supply chain logistics and innovation, specializing in helping technology companies build high-performing Go-to-Market teams. Samuel has his B.A.

Metrics 246

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Despite the evolution of technology, none of the 28 industry segments I follow can drive improvement at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Investment in Legacy Technologies. The industry continues to invest in technology architectures that are inside-out and limited. A failed blogger.” The reason?

Supply Chain Design Software 221

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

If “the forecast is always wrong,” is improving forecast accuracy even the solution to our demand planning woes? Artificial intelligence and machine learning ( AI/ML ) can improve forecast accuracy, but a bigger problem is the failure to set accurate expectations around forecasting models, not the accuracy of the models themselves.

Supply and Demand 306

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We need planning platforms to keep up with all the changes. This means we need more agile, flexible, and scalable planning platforms to process and consolidate new data sources, drive insights using advanced analytics such as AI/ML to drive autonomous decisions, and expand collaboration within and outside our organizations.

Supply Chain Planning Software 294

Supply Chain Planning Software Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Planning Forecasting Software 294

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

How 3PLs Can Gain Visibility and a Competitive Advantage Offering Automated Billing and a Self-Service Interactive Customer Portal It’s hard to imagine a third-party logistics (3PL) business today operating without some form of a warehouse management system ( WMS ) connecting the digital dots. But can technology do more?

Supply Chain Planning Software 278

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 15, 2021

One of the industry’s biggest concerns is how to digitise and transform quickly, without starting from scratch and having to throw away your enormous investment in traditional systems. The good news is that you don’t have to—even if you have hundreds of legacy systems and ERP instances across your company.

Inventory Reduction 259

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

When it comes to running a company, when things break down executives have traditionally said “we need to improve our forecasting!” Would better forecasting accuracy be a good thing? Unfortunately, most companies cannot, and will never be able to, consistently rely on highly accurate forecasts. Absolutely!

Forecasting 276

Forecasting Forecasting Software Modeling Optimal Sourcing 276

RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. Technology integration: Leveraging digital tools to enhance visibility and decision-making.

Sourcing Strategies 96

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To keep customers like my dad satisfied, RGD and Quick-commerce companies need to invest in new technologies to optimize the supply chain and logistics operations. These technologies are often invisible to the end-user but make a big difference in keeping the promises about product availability, freshness, and speed of delivery.

Supply Chain Planning Software 300

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By combining leadership and technology, I believed that we had the opportunity to create a better supply chain. The gap is the result of the stewpot of corporate politics, misguided consultants, and over-hyped technologies. The SAS forecasting system implemented in 2019 was not tested for model accuracy. I was wrong.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 12, 2025

Each saw the need to change and not dwell on the loss of the position as they knew it, but to embrace the potential of new opportunities stemming from the technology inflection. Today’s technology shifts are similar. Companies have invested in using transactional data, due to limitations in prior technologies. The reason?

Modeling 195

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

End-to-end supply chain visibility, planning, and execution support software are critical in agile supply chain performance. CPG companies that utilize an autonomous supply chain technology see a reduction in their inventory and cost and an increase in revenue. each with discrete plans generated typically in sequential batch runs.

Supply Chain Planning Software 288

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 7, 2025

Financial crises, global tensions, supply shortages, technological innovations, and regulatory changes are inevitable we just cant predict when theyll strike. Modern businesses must approach stock optimization as a dynamic, responsive system rather than a static holding pattern.

Inventory Reduction 156

Inventory Reduction Modeling Optimization Software Supply Chain Optimization 156

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. Software selection is risky. 6 Focus on the wrong metric. Seven Ways RFIs Fall Short.

Supply Chain Planning Software 245

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It’s like having a magic wand that optimizes inventory levels, prevents shortages, and sharpens your demand forecasting—all from your smartphone. Mobile inventory management is a digital solution that combines a mobile inventory app with cloud-based software to track, manage, and optimize inventory in real-time.

Inventory Management Software 96

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Definition As I follow the evolution of supply chain technology, I am struck by what I see as a stream of paradox and anomaly, and the tendency of supply chain leaders to cling to convention. technologies. My observation is that software technology leaders are attempting to make historic practices faster versus redefining capabilities.

Supply Chain Planning Software 417

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Connected technology transforms traditional supply chains into dynamic systems capable of real-time decisions and proactive problem-solving. Demand Forecasting: Analyze past data to predict future needs. Route Optimization: Calculate the most efficient delivery routes based on several factors.

Optimal Sourcing 98

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Logility

MARCH 6, 2020

Machine Learning for demand forecasting has matured to a level of accuracy, transparency and replicability that translates into transformative results, including in these five areas: Accuracy, transparency, thoroughness of analytical options and results. Let’s take a closer look at each one. Accuracy and transparency. Greed for more data.

Forecasting 261

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2025

New forms of technology are an enabler. ” The problem is that each of the outside-in processes encountered problems with traditional technologies, and as a result, got stuck and had limited adoption. .” CPFR: Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment garnered great fanfare late in the 1990s.

Modeling 195

Modeling Material Savings Vendor Strategies Supply and Demand 195

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. He did this first by implementing demand sensing from Terra Technology (now E2Open) eight years ago. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. Nick does this well.

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Logility

JULY 20, 2023

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. Here are our answers to some of the most common questions about demand planning software.

Supply and Demand 188

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Logility

APRIL 28, 2025

It could write poetry, generate code, or answer inquiries about next months forecast. In supply chain terms, this translates into going beyond monitoring key performance improvements (KPIs) to enable systems to heal themselves and the processes and operations they run when disruptions occur. At least, not yet.

Supply Chain Planning Software 147

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2021

As an entrepreneur I’ve been reflecting on this a lot: The current milestone in logistics and fulfillment is using emerging technologies to capture and leverage exponentially growing data sets in warehouses and throughout the entire fulfillment network. The rise of autonomous technologies.

Supply Chain Network Software 242

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2021

Using balance sheet data from 2011 to 2019, we chart companies’ progress by peer group on rate of improvement and performance in the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Let me share some and see what you think: Does forecast ownership make a difference in outcomes?

Supply Chain Planning Software 370

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. Engineers could sign up for hour-long blocks to use the new systems.

Inventory Reduction 434

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Most companies buy decision support technology, but do not redefine work to improve decisions. A shift from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard. I like the use of growth, margin, inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital, customer service and ESG metrics. Improved Forecast Value Added (FVA). Fire the Apes.

S&OP 390

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