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Reynolds’ Continuous Improvement Journey Across a Dynamic Supply Chain

Logility

With approximately 95% of American households relying on products like recyclable aluminum foil, self-sealing wax, freezer paper, disposable bakeware, trash liners, and more, this organization strives for continuous improvement in their supply chain.

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Aligning Supply Chain Metrics to Improve Value

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2016, we finished a study on continuous improvement. In the study, when we asked for the top elements of business pain to drive continuous improvement for companies greater than 5B$ in annual revenue, as shown in Figure 1, we found the largest issues with cross-functional alignment and availability of talent.

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Should You Outsource Demand Planning?

ToolsGroup

Outsourcing non-core business processes has been a time-tested way to cut costs while improving performance. But now they have started outsourcing supply chain business processes like demand planning, allowing them to focus on other business processes while gaining access to world class capabilities.

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The ‘Secret Sauce’ to Improving Demand Planning

Arkieva

How do you get the sense of what works for demand planning? Related Webinar: How to Use Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales & Delight Your Customers ] Improving Demand Planning. Related Webinar: How to Use Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales & Delight Your Customers ] Improving Demand Planning.

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Learning to Speak the Language of Demand

Supply Chain Shaman

Demand Latency: The latency of demand signal due to demand translation of a customer purchase through the supply chain to an order for a trading partner. For example, in a hospital, it is the translation of usage in a procedure to hospital order to a distributor and the translation of that usage to an order for a manufacturer.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

At the time we spoke, Mr. Niebur spoke of risk management as a continuous improvement journey that would never end. Klaus: The plan is to build a holistic “one-stop-shop” Control-Tower along all supply chain functions. For example, to build that plant, the company would need to work with a construction company or companies.

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Manufacturing ERP Plays a Key Role for Sustainability

QAD

As an example, look no further than Microsoft’s announcement to be carbon negative by 2030 and their commitment of $1 billion towards a climate innovation fund. Demand Planning allows manufacturers to more accurately identify where, when, and how much future customer demands will affect the business.