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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

The essence of the question is resilience and the ability to forecast in a variable market reliably. This gets us to the question of what is the role of the forecast?` For most, forecasting is a conundrum full of potholes, politics, and bias. When he speaks of the supply chain, he means procurement. This is his world.

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Avoiding Dead-end Streets As We Build the Future of Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

I forecast this disruption period as the new normal is not over. At the beginning of the pandemic, the forecasted period of disruption of seven-to-eight months. Examples include projects like control towers, lights-out planning, real-time planning, DDMRP, forecast sharing, and sales forecasting. Forecast Sharing.

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IMF World Economic Forecast-Global Economy Limping Along

Supply Chain Matters

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog provides perspectives on the latest published IMF World Economic Forecast. With that stated, the agency references concerns for “ the persistent manufacturing slowdown ” as a suggestion that labor markets and activity will soften in 2024.

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Sourcing and Procurement: One but Not the Same

Precoro

This month, we continue our Procurement Basics series and would like to introduce our readers to yet another set of often misused business terminology. As both sourcing and procurement are related to obtaining supplies for the organization, confusing these two terms is easy. Procurement. What Is Procurement Process?

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Improving Sales forecasting after Covid

DynaSys

We should not consider year 2020, and probably H1 2021, as a relevant set of data for forecasting calculation. So, should I pick 2019 as the new reference, and delete 2020 from my data? My next S&OP run is coming, and I must find a solution to deal with sales forecasting after Covid. Will IA replace forecasting?

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What is Procurement Management?

Unleashed

Procurement management directly impacts your bottom line, making it a critical component of running a profitable product-based business. In this article, we look at the different stages of procurement management. We’ll also explore project procurement management and the relationship between procurement and supply chain management.

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Consumer Goods: A Formula for Service, Speed, & Brand Success

Logility

In most cases, their legacy ERP or supply chain solutions cannot support the real-time, frequent forecasting and inventory planning needed to get ahead of margins pressures, rising costs, and shifts in consumer demand. It used to take two people anywhere from 10 to 15 days to create a 12-month forecast.