Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. The Company implemented SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) including the standard functionality of Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS), yet many planners also used Excel.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

The application of advanced forecasting and planning methodologies improve inventory management in a critical, high-volume repair business, dramatically reducing costs and fulfillment cycles while improving customer satisfaction. Difficulties forecasting demand in a high-volume repair environment caused inventory costs to skyrocket.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Supply chain excellence happens when leaders manage complex non-linear flows.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 19, 2024

How much should you produce or purchase at a time? Inaccurate forecasting risks overstocking—leading to increased waste—or understocking, resulting in missed sales opportunities. These figures underscore the national issue and the operational challenges faced by businesses caught in the cycle of inaccurate demand forecasting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The budget is not sufficient and is often a detrimental input for supply chain forecasting. The supply chain forecast is a rolling forecast.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 18, 2019

Eerily the case studies sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. And, when it comes to their case studies, I do not find the step change. Dependency on Excel. Excel–while widely used for planning–is not equal to the challenge of modeling complex supply chains.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In theory you could plan on a single changeover date, decrease purchases at the old DCs, pre-build inventory at the new DC, and on the changeover date, start fulfilling all demand from the 50 stores out of the new DC. Split Your Aggregate Forecast by Week. Ramp-Up Purchasing Plans for the New DC.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In theory you could plan on a single changeover date, decrease purchases at the old DCs, pre-build inventory at the new DC, and on the changeover date, start fulfilling all demand from the 50 stores out of the new DC. Split Your Aggregate Forecast by Week. Ramp-Up Purchasing Plans for the New DC.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I am currently working on a couple of case studies for this blog on how business leaders used digital twin modeling during the pandemic. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement: Purchase price variance and procurement cost. Over time, this changed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

On one extreme, there is an argument that forecasts are always wrong, “Why do them at all?” ” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” I do believe in demand planning, but most companies overstate forecast improvements.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Companies that tightly tether to enterprise transactional data will never buy the right stuff.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. We share this case study in a Q&A format.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. The Building Blocks.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 30, 2024

The platform is designed to enhance inventory management and provide accurate demand planning and forecasting, crucial for optimizing supply chain efficiency. The What and Why of AI Tools for Supply Chain There is a reason why everyone is talking about AI tools and why people are driven to make impulsive purchases of AI-powered tools.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Through the next two months, I am focusing on writing and sharing case studies of success. I will write the case studies here, and share the dialogue with the supply chain leaders in our podcast series, Straight Talk with Supply Chain Insights. The ATT forecasting process at that time was best described as a séance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. As a result, we can push and push on forecasting processes and not drive improvement. I worked first at Gartner Group and then at AMR Research. I was a skeptic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. We are driving functional excellence and incrementally. (To Moving Forward.

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Unleashed

MAY 19, 2020

and a forecasted market valuation of US$107.85 Case study 1: Epic Brewing Company. Case study 2: Zeffer Cider. Planning and forecasting. Sales forecasting, customer service and sales order management. Don’t purchase any supply chain solution that is not Cloud or SaaS based.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

Yet, few are willing to raise their hands and admit that current demand planning processes of forecasting based on order or shipments do not work. The implementation of these models increased process latency (the time to make a decision) and in most organizations degraded Forecast Value Added impacts on the demand plan. Please follow.

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Vanguard Software

APRIL 30, 2021

Modern retailers need to adjust to anticipate what consumers will be buying, at what frequency, and through what channel. As consumers were panic buying in March of last year, retailers were making strategic buys in anticipation of increased demand for specific categories and items. In 2020, consumers spent $861.12

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Invata Intralogistics

APRIL 5, 2024

AI-Enhanced Picking and Packing One area within fulfillment where AI excels is picking and packing, which traditionally required substantial human labor and was a significant cost center for e-commerce businesses. When integrated with AI, this technology can optimize the picking route in real-time, reducing time and motion inefficiencies.

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Invata Intralogistics

APRIL 5, 2024

AI-Enhanced Picking and Packing One area within fulfillment where AI excels is picking and packing, which traditionally required substantial human labor and was a significant cost center for e-commerce businesses. When integrated with AI, this technology can optimize the picking route in real-time, reducing time and motion inefficiencies.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Mini Case Study: Walmart Walmart may be the most famous example of a company that has succeeded primarily because of a well-developed and aligned supply chain strategy. That should be sobering news for any business not yet focused on supply chain excellence as a lever for business success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. A Case Study. One that is going to eat you up! It is a low probability that this will ever happen.

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Elementum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Improving Business Operations with Digital Processes At the heart of operational excellence is the ability to optimize workflows through digital process automation. The development of digital governance frameworks helps enterprises stay within the legal boundaries while striving for operational excellence.

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QAD

MARCH 30, 2023

Walmart is somewhere you might go to stock up on personal care products, snacks and gardening supplies, but is not a typical case study for manufacturing operations. This isn’t a task for an Excel spreadsheet. RFID technology enables real-time inventory tracking and, in turn, more accurate inventory counts and order forecasting.

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RELEX Solutions

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Customers » Case Studies. had developed its own forecasting and replenishment system. The tool would need to be able to forecast for seasonal and promotional products as well. The company chose RELEX because of its excellent track record with retailers’ online, offline and omnichannel operations. Kolonial.no

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 11, 2017

It is obvious that the level of domain expertise and knowledge has contributed to a new class of trade promotion execution; and I have sympathy for the manufacturers who will be making decisions about TPx solution purchases in the next few years. They will undoubtedly be taxed in their effort to choose the right solution. Data Usage.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Shoppers can now enjoy more personalised buying journeys, as merchants make it faster and easier to find the products that they’re most likely to purchase. Now, however, AI is transforming the way eCommerce merchants approach demand forecasting. Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the game for online businesses.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Set reorder points for your most frequently purchased items As your business grows, it can be difficult to keep track of the right time and stock level at which to reorder more products. Setting reorder points for the most frequently purchased items can help significantly improve inventory efficiencies and save costs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” In fact, the teams ignore the forecast. While I do not consider this case study as a good example of demand-driven processes, I do believe that they have done some great work on implementing a customer segmented supply chain based on postponement.

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RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Case Musti Group: Thriving in a Complex, Multinational, Supply Chain Environment. Customers » Case Studies. The integrated system allows the buyers to base the central warehouse forecasts on the stores’ replenishment needs.”. – Matti Salmi, Purchasing Director, Musti Group Nordic. Background. Turnover 179 M€.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 26, 2019

When reading current case studies focused on S&OP, she notes, “[They] sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. Dependency on Excel. Cecere explains, “Driving supply chain excellence is a balancing act. That doesn’t mean buying the first shiny thing you see.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

No matter how well retailers and CPG manufacturers plan their product portfolio or assortments available across both physical stores and the online channel, forecast demand using sales or shipment history with internal drivers (promotions, digital coupons, social media campaigns….) Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem. labor) shortages.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

No matter how well retailers and CPG manufacturers plan their product portfolio or assortments available across both physical stores and the online channel, forecast demand using sales or shipment history with internal drivers (promotions, digital coupons, social media campaigns….) Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem. labor) shortages.

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RFgen

JUNE 8, 2023

Analyze Existing Processes Review your warehouse procedures to identify areas of inefficiency: Inventory turnover Stock control Demand forecasting Reorder points Safety stock Customer demand vs current inventory levels Material handling processes Then look for areas where your inventory management process can improve. That’s a problem.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Stuck with inputs from the traditional processes of collaborative forecasting, and traditional definitions of demand planning, demand error and bias are high. These traditional forecasting processes perpetuate the Bullwhip Effect, amplifying and distorting channel pulls. This section will be a rich sharing of case studies.

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