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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

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!

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. Tight coupling of the supply chain forecast to the financial forecast will improve value.

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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

Ecosystem Software– Apache Pig, Hive, HBase, Phoenix, Zookeeper, Impala, Flume, Oozie and Storm. While the rest of the world was deep in a recession in 2008, and manufacturers were struggling with payroll decisions and layoffs, Hadoop innovation was in full swing. As a result, companies closed manufacturing facilities.

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Supply chain reshoring: where things stand now

Resilinc

manufacturing facilities. And the largest net jump in jobs forecast came in computer and electronics due mostly to investment in semiconductor manufacturing such as Taiwan-based TSMC’s $12 billion investment in a 5nm node fab in Phoenix, Arizona. In Europe, FDI in manufacturing declined by 20% in 2020, according to EY.

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The Power of Predictive Analytics

E2open

Gartner made a similar claim in the keynote of its Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, citing automation, algorithms and the systematic use real-time data as industry game changers. A major obstacle is time-series analysis methods used in traditional forecasting. Why are these such big focus areas?

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The Power of Predictive Analytics

E2open

Gartner made a similar claim in the keynote of its Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, citing automation, algorithms and the systematic use real-time data as industry game changers. A major obstacle is time-series analysis methods used in traditional forecasting. Why are these such big focus areas?

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The Avnet Tech Games IX Welcomes The Inaugural JDA Supply Chain Challenge

BlueYonder

This event brought teams of two to four students together to form Littlefield Technologies, a fictitious manufacturer of digital satellite system receivers. Uncategorized capacity forecasting inventory pricing' This year, I am especially pleased about a new event called the “ JDA 2014 Supply Chain Challenge.” Tushar Solanki.