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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

Unleashed

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

ToolsGroup

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

ToolsGroup

GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. It included an advanced planning algorithm, a self-tuning forecasting engine, SAP ERP connectors, and S&OP capabilities. But equally they pose huge supply chain planning challenges as described earlier.

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EV segment will likely depend on China for many years

Resilinc

Australia and Zimbabwe have far more lithium resources than China, and China mines just 1% of the world’s cobalt, but Chinese firms dominate the value chains for these and other critical minerals through ownership of foreign mines and domestic refining capacity. China produced 84.6% for the U.S.,

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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). United States Minor Outlying Islands. Uzbekistan. Virgin Islands, British. Virgin Islands, U.S. Wallis and Futuna. Western Sahara. I accept the Terms & Conditions.

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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. United States Minor Outlying Islands. Uzbekistan. Virgin Islands, British. Virgin Islands, U.S. Wallis and Futuna. Western Sahara. I accept the Terms & Conditions. Mindmap manual.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

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.