SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In an increasingly unpredictable world environment, practices for planning and forecasting inventory levels that worked in the past need to be reviewed. In the 1990s, APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) arose as a solution for making better decisions about inventory. Inventory optimization.

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Logility

OCTOBER 29, 2021

With the right technology, process manufacturing strategy, planning, and management can be simplified. Manufacturers have been through a trial by fire with supply chain disruptions and changes in demand during the past two years. 4 Digital Solutions That Address the Top Challenges for Process Manufacturers.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 25, 2024

Demand forecasting is a critical component of supply chain management, especially in the complex and unpredictable market landscape of 2024. Accurate forecasts are essential for maintaining inventory balance, ensuring customer satisfaction, and achieving financial stability. What is Demand Forecasting?

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 24, 2021

Now consider that by not optimizing your inventory from a global vantage point you may be creating, if not outright chaos, a much less efficient network than you could have. There are many pieces of the modern manufacturing supply chain. The basic approach to inventory optimization. This is no easy task.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The key lies in high performance inventory. Forward-looking supply chain professionals understand that inventory is not an end in itself; it’s a means – to enhanced customer service, increased profitability, and greater efficiency. What is High Performance Inventory? So what are the nuts and bolts of this process?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. The implementation also involves leveraging weather data to improve forecasting. The forecasting projects were focused on secondary distribution. Forecasting is harder there.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 15, 2024

BOSTON & LONDON — January 15, 2024 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced the launch of their In-Season Inventory Optimization Solution, an integrated suite of tools in the greater JustEnough retail planning and execution suite. Read more HERE.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The volatility of 2020 and the uncertainties looming into 2021 make it difficult to forecast planning and budgets based on historical data. Many furniture manufacturers reported lengthy delays for build-to-order pieces due to reduced workforces and difficulties in sourcing fabrics and components. Rethink Inventory.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 14, 2024

Manufacturing inventory management is crucial to the success and profitability of your manufacturing operations. This guide for manufacturers explains how it works and explores the most effective ways to manage inventory in manufacturing.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Accurately forecasting sales with fluctuating demand cycles is difficult to achieve, and yes, there’s a direct impact: the less accurate the sales forecast, the less precise the stocking levels. The lack of forecasting accuracy can easily spill hardship into other departments. What is Demand Forecasting?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

The sad fact is that most planners spend six to seven hours a day in meetings and struggle to get timely information. 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.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 24, 2024

However, the pandemic upended all processes that involved manufacturing, supply, and delivery of goods. This scenario raises the question: “How do we build systems that enable better demand planning for manufacturers, and what are the processes that support these?” Excess inventories lead to excess wastage.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Introduction I was recently in a conversation about forecasting with a client team, and one individual, whose background was not in supply chain, asked what the value of demand forecasting is. Inventory metrics are less intuitive, but ever since U.S. The link between forecast accuracy and corporate goals is less clear.

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Unleashed

APRIL 18, 2024

The manufacturing industry thrives on efficiency gains. Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing is a production management approach that helps you lift efficiency and streamline your operational processes. What is just-in-time manufacturing? What is just-in-time manufacturing? Here’s how it works.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 17, 2022

The manufacturing industry faces many challenges, such as a skilled labor shortage, supply chain instability, and inventory management issues. GlobalTranz works with manufacturing shippers every day to move their goods and streamline their logistics strategies. 5 Challenges Facing Supply Chain Managers in Manufacturing.

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Logility

APRIL 17, 2023

As a manufacturing leader, you’re faced with constant disruptions, labor shortages, and the threat of job loss — time is of the essence. of supply chain managers using Excel spreadsheets to manage your inventory and supply chain, it’s time to make a change. If you’re one of the 67.4%

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ThroughPut

JUNE 12, 2023

As a result, the forecasting errors in logistics have only multiplied ever since the pandemic and with conventional forecasting models failing to insulate you against underutilization, revenue loss and missed business opportunities, you need to don the Batman’s cape to save the day!

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 25, 2022

BOSTON – (August 25, 2022) ToolsGroup , a global leader in AI-driven retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, has been named a leader in the Quadrant Solutions SPARK Matrix™ for Global Supply Chain Inventory Optimization. Amid continuous disruption and fast-changing consumer demand, inventory agility is crucial.

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Taulia

JANUARY 4, 2023

Supply chain management comprises parts including supplier management , sourcing, procurement, the accounts payable process , manufacturing, and the delivery of finished products. Fundamentally, it’s all about organizing supply chain activities to meet customer demand. What is demand forecasting? Determining duration.

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ThroughPut

JULY 6, 2021

Thriving In ‘The New Normal’ With 5 Demand Planning & Forecasting Methods. Businesses around the world are pondering upon these questions and each of them leads to a simple answer – effective supply chain demand planning and forecasting. Reshaping the manufacturing world to meet new demands.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The larger the global corporation, the more that the use of functional goals sub-optimizes growth, margin and inventory levels. Today, it is a skewed distribution with only 7% of manufacturing and retailers claiming to be innovators to drive first-mover advantage through technology. Measurement. Innovation.

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Logility

MAY 25, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable global market, the secret to maintaining a competitive edge lies in a key area—robust inventory control techniques. Inventory control is the act of managing and organizing stock to meet customer demand without surplus or deficiency. This is where inventory control techniques come in.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

With Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+) ToolsGroup’s manufacturing customers commonly achieve a 10-30% reduction in inventory, improve product availability to 96% or better, and reduce overhead (such as overtime and expedited freight) by 50%. Reduced inventory value of safety stock on clustered items by 18%. Forecast errors halved.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Demand forecasting and planning sounds like a complex task requiring input from a team of accountants and economists but, in reality, it’s an easy way to improve your inventory control. Why forecast demand? Strengthening supplier relationships with demand forecasting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

Without an efficient supply chain, a company can’t meet the demand that exists, and competitors swoop in and grab market share. Or, alternatively, a company carries too much inventory, storage for excess inventory must be purchased, and cash flows become tight. This did not endear them to their contract manufacturing partners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2023

By fostering collaboration across all stakeholders, including suppliers, manufacturers, and logistics providers, companies can enhance visibility, streamline processes, and proactively address disruptions. Make to Order: Here, products are manufactured based on specific customer orders.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

JULY 15, 2022

I was recently in a conversation about forecasting with a client team, and one individual, whose background was not in supply chain, asked what the value of demand forecasting is. Inventory metrics are less intuitive, but ever since U.S. The link between forecast accuracy and corporate goals is less clear. Introduction.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Inventory management is important because it provides a buffer to balance out the uncertainties between demand and supply. However, while it can be viewed positively, holding inventory also creates problems. As an asset on a company’s balance sheet, reduced inventory results in a higher return on assets.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 4, 2022

When demand can be anticipated with accuracy, it can be delivered efficiently with demand forecasting techniques. Demand-driven replenishment and fulfillment can help retail planners manage large SKUs, determining each sales location and its optimal inventory targets. Importance of Demand-driven Replenishment.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 4, 2024

Make-to-Order (MTO) manufacturing is the production of specialized or unique one-off products in quantities ranging from one to small production runs. Usually, the final product is a combination of custom manufactured components and standard components. MTO operations bring their own set of unique challenges.

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ShipBob

JULY 9, 2021

If only there was a crystal ball to foresee unexpected events, manufacturing delays, and fluctuations in customer demand. . And since an ecommerce supply chain consists of several moving parts, how does an online brand go about supply chain forecasting, so they can make better predictions and decisions? Download the Guide.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2016

Most CPG companies have hit a demand forecasting ceiling. And complexity creates a challenge of how to forecast accurately when faced with new items, new channels and demand shaping. Recent evidence strongly suggests that traditional forecasting techniques in this environment have reached their limits and hit a ceiling.

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Logility

MARCH 21, 2024

During this time, the same AI tools that underwrite new technologies have been key in improving efficiency and optimizing all areas of logistics and supply chain processes including forecasting, supply planning, inventory management, manufacturing, network optimization, and more.

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RFgen

APRIL 12, 2024

Managing inventory costs is a constant struggle. Managing inventory costs is important because high inventory costs can erode the bottom line. On the other hand, optimized inventory levels can enhance it. On the other hand, optimized inventory levels can enhance it. Next is the cost of storing the inventory.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 11, 2021

The global wire and cable manufacturing industry is slated to be valued at US $232 billion by 2025 at an annual growth rate (AGR) of approximately 5 percent. However, gradually complex manufacturing environments may prove to be a challenge for those who struggle with demand forecasting accuracy.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 12, 2023

Forecasting has forever been at the heart of efficient supply chain operations – driving the much needed predictability to source raw materials, manufacture products and fulfill customer needs at the right time, right place and in the right quantity. Clearly, supply chain forecasting has become more complex.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 5, 2024

Inventory is the backbone of the modern firm, and potentially its most important asset. Thus, effective inventory management is one of the crucial goals of modern-day businesses – and a critical element of supply chain management. What is Inventory Management?

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