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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

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Mark Houghton – CEO at Radical Cloud Solutions , our cloud solution specialist in Zimbabwe. Protecting profit margins from ALC inflation ALC (Average Landed Cost) is a crucial metric in demand forecasting and inventory valuation. You can protect your margins better than you do with a more homogenous category.”

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

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And while each market can be unique, we found a few repeating themes in our own experience and from sources including Gartner and our customers Procter and Gamble (P&G) and Cipla Medpro. GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Here’s what we found: 1.