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My Take: Let’s Admit Seven Demand Management Mistakes of the Last Decade

Supply Chain Shaman

After two decades of process and technology refinement, excellence in demand management still eludes supply chain teams. Supply Chain Management (SCM) concepts are now thirty-years old. The first use of the term supply chain management in the commercial sector was in 1982. It requires a step for demand translation. .”

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Gain a Leading Edge in Inventory Management through Digital Transformation

DELMIA Quintiq

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.

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Thirteen Years a Blogger

Supply Chain Shaman

Process-based companies continue to focus on manufacturing efficiency (OEE) and discrete on procurement (PPV) without designing the supply chain to balance transportation, manufacturing, and procurement to a balanced scorecard. Functional Metrics and the Lack of Alignment to Strategy. The Lovefest with Shiny Objects.

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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

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.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

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.

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

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.

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From Siloed to Interconnected: Bring Planning, Sourcing and Procurement Together with a Common Platform 

Logility

Manufacturing capacity is severely diminished. Even their ability to keep up with demand is challenged by a combination of resource material shortages and shipping and receiving delays. Now more than ever, the conventional silos of planning, sourcing, and procurement teams must be connected into one cohesive network.