Arkieva

AUGUST 17, 2021

Having access to an accurate forecast is very beneficial for businesses. At a more tactical level, it can help reduce the costs associated with meeting the customer demand and make the supply chain more efficient. How Forecastable is Your Data? was first posted on August 17, 2021 at 8:05 am.

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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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ThroughPut

MARCH 25, 2024

In supply chain management, accurately distinguishing between demand planning and demand forecasting is essential yet challenging. The consequences of conflating demand planning with demand forecasting are significant, impacting inventory management, customer satisfaction, and financial health. What is Demand Forecasting?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

The implementation also involves leveraging weather data to improve forecasting. Gijs Majoor, vice president of supply chain and sustainable fuels, and Jacob Gladysz, the director of logistics explained the Pinnacle Propane business and their journey to improve their forecasting. Forecasting is harder there. This is also rare.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

How Do You Turn a Good Demand Forecast into the Optimum Inventory Plan? Your customers don’t care if you have a great demand forecast. How do you turn a good forecast into a great inventory plan? How do you turn a good forecast into a great inventory plan? They care if you have the inventory they want when they want it.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 29, 2023

Market-based demand forecasting to help you predict orders and resources Retailers are facing increasing pressure to offer affordable, reliable and frictionless omni-channel fulfillment experiences. This customer example is just the beginning of a whole new way of retail and grocery planning solutions that we call Fulfillment Forecasting.

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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. More recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been promoted as the way to address the complexities of inventory planning and forecasting. Challenges of IO and AI.

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Logility

MARCH 25, 2020

For today’s supply chain planner, the art and especially the science of forecasting demand have evolved. Have you been in that meeting? Implicit in this little parody of a planning meeting is the belief (the admission, if we’re honest) that macro-level predictions are often the best we can do. Here’s one boardroom scenario.

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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. More recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been promoted as the way to address the complexities of inventory planning and forecasting. Challenges of IO and AI.

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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. Rapid shifts in sourcing increased shipping spend and left routing guides useless for meeting demands. Those unexpected surges meant forecasts were worth as much as the paper they were printed on.

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OptiProERP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Inventory forecasting, or demand forecasting, estimates future inventory levels needed using past data, upcoming events, and market trends. Inventory forecasting ensures manufacturers have the proper inventory to meet customers’ needs while minimizing excess inventory costs. Reduced cost  Inventory is equivalent to money.

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Unleashed

MAY 1, 2023

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. Our experts explain that best-practice demand planning begins with a top-down forecast.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 24, 2024

Demand planning and forecasting in the traditional sense relied heavily on a combination of limited and biased data and gut instinct. Not limiting this ability to just rectifying errors, analytics can also be leveraged into demand forecasting and profit generation. Why do you Need Modern Demand Sensing to Solve Modern Problems?

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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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Logility

APRIL 23, 2020

So, the promise of using statistical algorithms, forecasting and predictive analytics is now added to the list of a company’s number one priorities. Here are a few steps that you will need to take to deploy your forecasts successfully. Evaluate the forecasting power against the risk level of the decisions that are being made.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 22, 2021

ToolsGroup’s supply chain planning software allows Italy’s largest grocery retailer to improve forecast accuracy, model promotional events, and improve visibility and collaboration with cooperatives. ToolsGroup supported Conad in defining a new demand planning and collaboration process with downstream cooperatives and upstream suppliers.

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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. The link between forecast accuracy and corporate goals is less clear. But that doesn’t make forecasting any less important.

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Logility

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Process manufacturers in particular, with their reliance on a consistent ingredient mix, have unique challenges that require accurate forecasting to keep up with manufacturing demand. Granular forecasting at the SKU level. With the right technology, process manufacturing strategy, planning, and management can be simplified.

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AIMMS

JULY 8, 2019

Sales and Operations Planning and demand forecasting are two sides of the same coin. For many, a well-executed S&OP process should start with a demand forecast on one end and supply and resource plans to meet that forecast on the other. Demand forecasts are only becoming less accurate. – Tweet this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2024

Data Normalization & Removing Bias Data normalization in the context of forecasting is the process of going from actualized sales, which may be biased by various factors such as weather or inventory availability, to an understanding of baseline demand that is stripped of the impacts of these demand drivers.

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QAD

APRIL 6, 2023

Having proper forecasting within your supply chain can help you to be antifragile and assist you in leveraging life’s disruptions. Assisting you in balancing demand, building an antifragile system to meet your corporate work flows. The future is unpredictable and it is impossible to know what lies ahead.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Demand planning is part of a company’s planning strategy to allocate resources in the best and most effective way to meet demand and respond to demand changes. A demand planning team will forecast demand for their stock items so that supply chain and inventory managers can decide what, how much and when they need to order.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Demand planning is part of a company’s planning strategy to allocate resources in the best and most effective way to meet demand and respond to demand changes. A demand planning team will forecast demand for their stock items so that supply chain and inventory managers can decide what, how much and when they need to order.

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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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BlueYonder

JULY 6, 2023

Market-based demand forecasting to help you predict localized demand and placement of inventory Retailers are facing increasing pressure to offer affordable, reliable, and frictionless customer experiences. Read on below for a Part 2 summary of the conversation and then go hear it straight from them on the Blue Yonder Live.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Q3 is a tough quarter: the list of companies failing to meet revenue guidance will continue to grow. The question is, how can a company not meet guidance? The market tolerates an underperforming company that meets guidance more than a top performer that misses guidance. Synchronize CRM and Supply Chain Forecasting.

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Logility

JANUARY 12, 2024

Navigating the $5 trillion North American apparel market requires precision, especially when dealing with the intricate complexities of forecasting and inventory management. The Apparel Industry’s Forecasting Maze Mastering the art of forecasting is critical in the apparel industry.

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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

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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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Improved Forecast Value Added (FVA). Instead, focus on Forecast Value Added analysis. In mature companies, the focus shifts from error to Forecast Value Added (FVA) measurement. There are typically five-to-seven flows: Efficient: High volume/forecastable, medium volume/forecastable, and low volume/forecastable.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

When it comes to forecasting and demand management , a lot. For events like the Super Bowl, retail demand planners create forecasts using data from a variety of sources to adjust product demand profiles in anticipation of which product, or group of products might be in demand the most. compared to the previous year.

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Logility

AUGUST 23, 2016

I have heard a number of supply chain professionals proclaim that their companies should stop forecasting product demand due to poor forecast accuracy. However, what is often overlooked is that moving to a pull strategy does not eliminate the need for a forecast. It’s the old Push – Pull argument. Financial Impact.

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Taulia

JANUARY 4, 2023

Fundamentally, it’s all about organizing supply chain activities to meet customer demand. With the ability to accurately forecast future demand, you can optimize supply chain activities for revenue, consistently meet customer expectations to drive loyalty, and avoid costly overproduction. What is demand forecasting?

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JANUARY 18, 2023

What is Demand Forecasting? Demand forecasting is a vital activity for wholesale and retail purchasing teams. It helps ensure they will have adequate inventory available to meet future demand and avoid stockouts. Demand forecasting is a process that helps retailers and wholesalers predict future consumer demand.

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ShipBob

JULY 9, 2021

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? There are several supply chain forecasting methods that businesses of all sizes can use that doesn’t involve hiring a psychic. Download the Guide.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 30, 2022

Nespresso addressed this challenge by digitizing its end-to-end supply chain – from demand forecasts to order deliveries to points-of-sale—thanks to ToolsGroup’s digital supply chain planning platform. By using daily forecasts and replenishment constraints such as storage capacity, safety stock, stock, lead time, etc., Did You Know?

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