DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

An increasing lineup of advanced digital solutions have given manufacturers the edge to transform and achieve better inventory control. The manufacturing industry is constantly searching for new and inventive ways to improve inventory management. Clarity, control and competitiveness in inventory management.

Inventory Management Software 294

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OptiProERP

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

2022 has proven to be both positive and disruptive for the manufacturing industry. Despite the pandemic, recession fears, supply challenges, a tight labor market, and economic instability, manufacturing companies continue to survive and evolve in the “new normal.”. helped transform many manufacturing businesses. Industry 4.0

Trends 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The question was, “How can I redefine demand planning processes to use channel data?” This blog post started a series of telephone calls. The taxonomies and goals are different.

Supply and Demand 376

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2024

This is especially true in the world of demand management. Too few are questioning the products that should have never been manufactured. Let’s face it our historic practices for demand planning create waste in a more variable world. The Functional Manager. Supply-centric or Manufacturing Thinking.

Waste Reduction 195

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Finn-Tack, with an international customer base with growing global demand, has two production plants in China, and the Ukraine, manufacturing riding equipment and clothing. It also has a further four warehouses in The Netherlands, North America, Russia, and in Finland.

Demand Planning Software 84

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 15, 2019

Being a successful food or beverage manufacturer in 2019 is no small feat. It requires an efficient supply chain and demand management, quality control, and a willingness to adapt to an ever-changing industry. That being said, let’s explore why digitalized operations is essential to today’s […].

Beverage 66

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

During the 1980s, I was on a management team for a large manufacturer. The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team.

Inventory Reduction 406

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2014

Demand management has always been at the top of supply chain professionals’ list of challenges. For example, I attended a manufacturing symposium a few months ago and sat through several S&OP software implementation presentations.

Demand Planning Software 101

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Logility

JANUARY 13, 2022

Demand Management, Inc. Demand Management serves customers such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation. Demand Management serves customers such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation.

Supply Chain Planning Software 130

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

One of my insights from doing the industry analysis for the Supply Chains to Admire each year is that smaller and less well-known companies outperform larger and better-known manufacturers. The analysis is biased toward large process-based manufacturers in the Gartner network. Is this success? I don’t think so. Learning Stalled.

Gartner 364

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In manufacturing, IoT sensors ensure that each step of the process is tracked, ensuring that all materials meet required quality standards. Another challenge is device compatibility—different manufacturers produce IoT devices with varying standards, making it difficult to ensure frictionless communication between systems.

Internet of things 258

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BlueYonder

JUNE 19, 2015

Companies must constantly innovate to keep up with and satisfy fast-changing consumer demand. Is your demand management process adequately supporting this innovation requirement? Demand management as a discipline has been around for a long time, as have computer systems used to forecast demand.

Demand Management 40

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Logility

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Demand Management, Inc. Demand Management serves customers such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation. Demand Management serves customers such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation.

Supply Chain Planning Software 130

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Demand forecasting is the process of making future estimations of how much of a given product will sell by location and time period. Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship.

Forecasting 214

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ThroughPut

MAY 5, 2021

How AI-Powered Capacity Planning is Changing The Manufacturing Landscape – a ThroughPut Perspective. The consumer demand scene is constantly changing and when you suddenly land in a situation where your product is in great demand, it can turn into a missed opportunity if you’re not prepared.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Following a significant investment in 2021 from tech-focused private equity firm Accel-KKR, ToolsGroup has expanded its product offerings through the Just Enough demand management acquisition in 2021 and Onera retail execution acquisition in 2022. We are very excited about this new chapter in Evo’s journey.”

ToolsGroup 296

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Demand Management, Inc. Demand Management serves customers such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation.

Supply Chain Planning Software 130

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Today, it is a skewed distribution with only 7% of manufacturing and retailers claiming to be innovators to drive first-mover advantage through technology. Instead, they are attempting to measure demand forecast error and lamenting the lack of perfection on imperfect demand data. Innovation. Engines, Models and Workflow.

Supply Chain Planning Software 394

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies. At that time, the demand processes were largely regional. I also worked in manufacturing during the period of 1978-1992 trying to plan demand. Let me be transparent on mine.

Supply and Demand 157

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Whereas retailers once purchased merchandise largely based on the gut instinct of trend-savvy buyers and the push of whatever manufacturers tried to sell them, nowadays, they need to take a much more customer-focused and data-centered approach. You sell a full pallet of the item every week in most of your stores.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 156

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 6, 2022

The Onera acquisition comes on the heels of ToolsGroup’s acquisition of Mi9 Retail’s Demand Management business (formerly JustEnough Software), and further extends ToolsGroup’s functional reach in retail from planning to execution. . That’s why global leaders like Absolut, BP and Harley-Davidson rely on us year after year.

Supply Chain Planning Software 156

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. When it comes to distribution, primary distribution involves getting big bulk deliveries by pipeline and truck to their manufacturing sites. Pinnacle Propane Delivery to a Farm.

Forecasting 184

Forecasting Forecasting Software Modeling Optimal Sourcing 184

Kinaxis

OCTOBER 9, 2014

To support the company’s vision, NCR’s Global Operations team has developed a “Next in Class” supply chain strategy to enable it’s manufacturing and distribution network to efficiently and effectively respond to customer requirement’s. To view the video in its entirety, watch it below or here.

S&OP 171

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. They are impatient that they know more about pizza’s status for lunch before their zoom meeting than the inbound shipment status for their critical manufacturing run. Reflection. The supply chain career is new.

Supply Chain Design Software 307

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Companies that are good at demand management understand the need for design–form & function of inventory and push/pull decoupling points –and the orchestration of demand to make better decisions in sourcing, transportation and delivery. Retail forecasts are never a good source of data for the manufacturer.

Supply and Demand 170

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BlueYonder

APRIL 24, 2023

Even for companies who have implemented supply chain solutions, the replication of data (with each application having its own data store) and latency in data updates from one solution to another preclude manufacturers from achieving synchronized near real-time response. The end result?

Optimal Sourcing 75

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2018

Digital Manufacturing. Manufacturing Execution Systems with Data Historians have inched along over the years, but we have not been able to radically change manufacturing. Now, the use of systems like Think IQ at General Mills enable Track & Trace capabilities through manufacturing conversion points.

Analytics Software 217

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2024

In today’s systems, planned orders are consumed by manufacturing but the flows are disconnected from procurement and transportation. The Achilles heel is the lack of functionality for the management of direct materials. The Achilles heel is the lack of functionality for the management of direct materials.

Supply Chain Planning Software 195

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Kinaxis

JULY 18, 2014

It has about 6 million components which are manufactured in 30 countries by 550 unique suppliers. Best practices Demand management General News Supply chain collaboration Supply chain management Aerospace Kinaxis Lockheed Martin Manufacturing Sales and operations planning Supply chain Supply Chain Insights'

Supply Chain Planning 224

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. by John Westerveld Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Over the next several weeks, I’ll outline these issues and discuss some ideas around how to avoid these practices.

Modeling 246

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Demand management General News Supply chain management Business Business intelligence Enterprise resource planning (ERP) ERP Friday Lead time Manufacturing Sales and operations planning Supply chain'

Supply Chain Planning Software 263

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

SCaaS will guide companies to achieve strategic value by improving Manufacturing as a Service, Fulfillment as a Service, and Warehousing as a Service. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) is a new approach to managing the complex process of getting products from manufacturers to consumers.

Supply Chain Planning Software 105

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Kinaxis

MARCH 2, 2015

Teradyne is determined to give customers exactly what they want, despite the volatility that marks much demand today. Even with the outsourcing of manufacturing, it has vowed to maintain high levels of service and customer satisfaction. Teradyne can’t just build to a forecast supplied by marketing. “We We need to own this,” says Vosse.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 100

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 29, 2014

Of course, like any industry, Semiconductor and HDD manufactures are faced with a set of unique challenges in their space that puts their supply chain at risk. As suppliers of technology embedded in more complex products, Semiconductors and HDD manufacturers find themselves further back in the supply chain, often 3-5 levels down.

Metrics 171

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Demand Solutions

JUNE 10, 2020

But Jake Herbert, the company’s COO and legal counsel, addressed these challenges by calling Demand Management’s toll-free number. By the end of the week, the company had seen a demo of Demand Solutions Requirements Planning and Demand Solutions Deploy, thanks to Jeff Bower and his team.

Supply Chain Planning Software 162

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 6, 2022

In today’s business world, the success of a firm depends not only on its sales but also on the ability to manage its supply network and ensure it has the inventory it needs to deliver customer orders. There are ways to manage a supply chain amid disruptions but they require changes in the way the business works.

Inventory Reduction 119

Inventory Reduction Optimal Sourcing Inventory Modeling 119

ToolsGroup

MAY 14, 2019

Peter Neiderud, director of manufacturing and supply chain at The Absolut Company, worked with Optilon to implement an end-to-end planning capability to complement a new era of Absolut Vodka while honoring the long-standing tradition of manufacturing in Åhus, a small village on the Baltic Sea.

Optimal Sourcing 120

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