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Using Weather and Climate Data to Improve Demand Forecasting

ToolsGroup

Editor's Note: This is the second in a three part series on advanced demand analytics to improve demand forecasting. Demand forecasting software can usually factor in climate and seasonality , like more ice cream being sold during summer months or in warmer climates. But weather data adds a more granular time-sensitive signal.

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Tata Steel Europe’s Connected Planning Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

A pound of apples costs about the same as a pound of steel, yet steel is a complex product produced using high-tech metallurgical and manufacturing processes. Their primary steel plants are in Ijmuiden in the Netherlands and in the UK at Port Talbot. A ton of steel can cost as little as $700. What does that mean?

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A Tale of Two Industries: Surprising Demand Spikes amid Supply Chain Disruption

ToolsGroup

sells and deploys ToolsGroup software to companies in The Netherlands, Belgium and Turkey. At first the planners were sceptical as the forecast looked almost too good to believe. You will not have a chance to do this when a crisis hits and it is absolutely essential for reliable forecasting and stock supply planning.

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Supply Chain Predictions 2020: Uncertainty Demands Resilience

ToolsGroup

Based on probability (or stochastic) forecast models, these algorithms exploit the inherent uncertainty of demand and supply. Instead of ‘one number forecasts,’ they present ranges of numbers, each with a probability assigned. Turkey and the Netherlands). Advanced machine learning (ML) algorithms are key to this.

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stichd Selects Logility to Drive Supply Chain Growth and Attract Talent

Logility

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced stichd, a Netherlands-based product licensing company and division of PUMA, has chosen the Logility Digital Supply Chain Platform to support its ambitious growth strategy. . ATLANTA – March 22, 2022 – Logility, Inc.,

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Famar integrates pharma specific constraints in supply chain

Supply Chain Movement

Famar, a provider of contract manufacturing and development services to the pharmaceutical and health & beauty industry, has implemented the planning and scheduling functions of OMP Plus in four sites across Europe. Four sites are in scope of the OMP Plus visibility application, three in France and one in the Netherlands.

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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

resigned from their jobs in durable goods manufacturing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that, while the manufacturing sector as a whole is projected to have some pandemic recovery employment growth, it also contains 11 of the 20 industries that are predicted to have the most rapid employment declines.