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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

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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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How Procter & Gamble is thriving on supply chain complexity

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GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. P&G knew that it needed to improve its S&OP forecast quality, while reducing the human effort and inventory needed to meet customer service levels. Equally it poses huge supply chain planning challenges.

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

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This, together with lack of visibility, poor planning capability and outdated assets due to high cost of capital, results in ad hoc decisions made in functional silos that are more focused on cost and inventory risk avoidance and less on service, thereby contributing to inefficient (and often, inflexible) supply chain processes.”

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

This young, publicly listed American software vendor recently bought out Terra Technology, a specialist in demand sensing (short-term forecasting based on point-of-sale data). Such a system enables those companies to fulfil orders flexibly by dispatching the goods from various inventory points (e.g. Uzbekistan. Virgin Islands, British.

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Mindmap for Global Logistics Integration

Supply Chain Movement

Poor forecasting leads to rush orders to meet the delivery requirement demands of customers. Finally, the system should enable intelligent inventory location management to ensure optimal on-shelf availability for the end customers. United States Minor Outlying Islands. Uzbekistan. Virgin Islands, British. Virgin Islands, U.S.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

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However, Technavio’s analysts now forecast the 3PL market in Europe to grow at a CAGR of 2.87% over the period 2014-2019. United States Minor Outlying Islands. Uzbekistan. Virgin Islands, British. Virgin Islands, U.S. Wallis and Futuna. Western Sahara. I accept the Terms & Conditions. By Martijn Lofvers. Shipper-3PL relationships.

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