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 Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. Granularity also differs.

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Vanguard Software

JUNE 22, 2021

In the new normal of supply chain disruptions, it has never been more important for planners to strategically manage disruptive events, which create dramatic spikes or dips in demand, shortages in parts or supplies, and unexpected changes in shipping schedules. Modern Solutions Enable Shock-Resistant Supply Chains.

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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. This solution provides planners with a precise calculation of ongoing requirement and future sales that is proven to improve accuracy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Solvoyo’s Solution Bugaboo: something that causes fear or distress out of proportion to its importance. Demand forecasting is the process of making future estimations of how much of a given product will sell by location and time period. Would better forecasting accuracy be a good thing? Absolutely!

Forecasting 214

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. SCaaS will guide companies to achieve strategic value by improving Manufacturing as a Service, Fulfillment as a Service, and Warehousing as a Service. Let’s delve into this emerging concept.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 6, 2022

Solutions enable real-time inventory availability and fulfillment optimization for retailers. BOSTON—June 7, 2022 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced its acquisition of Onera, a provider of real-time inventory availability and fulfillment software solutions to retailers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These include manufacturers of wind turbines, equipment used for solar power and hydropower, and components used in geothermal plants. An ERP solution can integrate with other systems and would enable companies to connect and manage the complex network of information and equipment.

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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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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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.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 13, 2023

The good news, however, is they have plenty of options in their product assortments, store footprints, customer behavior and even virtual worlds as they face these economic headwinds, using tools including basket analysis, which shows what customers are buying, and assortment planning, which helps retailers decide what to sell.”

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We enable them by providing high-quality supply chain on-demand courses, guides, best practices, tools, and mentoring from industry experts. We have Courses like S&OP deployment, Supply Chain Digitalization , , and Negotiation in Procurement. Eight core competencies stand out, encompassing crucial aspects of SCM.

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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.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 2, 2023

At ThroughPut , we have been working towards creating perceptive supply chain solutions that can help tide through these uncertainties with AI-driven proactive intelligence. In our last release, the ThroughPut Demand Sensing Module addressed the gaps unveiled by the pandemic and the sudden shift in existing market dynamics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 17, 2021

NBG Home Uses a Software Solution from CommerceIQ. NBG Home has implemented a solution from CommerceIQ to increase sales in their indirect channels. The CommerceIQ solution also helps there. NBG Home is one of the largest home decor manufacturing companies and importers in the world.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. The initial software product release name was Real-Time Forecasting. The product naming convention changed to Demand Sensing (DS) in 2005. History of Terra Technology.

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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. Everyone has a bias.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 24, 2022

When faced with a pandemic like COVID-19, establishing a good understanding of the impact on supply chains and contingency plans can help manufacturing companies deal with uncertainties in the right way. Also, accurate inventory management can help in preventing overstocking, inadequate stock and unexpected stock-outs. ENHANCED SAFETY.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 20, 2015

In recent blogs I explained why beverage manufactures wanting to succeed in Asia have to acknowledge the region’s rich diversity. I highlighted the unique problems posed by the region and explained how manufacturers can improve their market penetration and get better returns on their investments. Well, the answer is very simple.

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ThroughPut

MAY 20, 2021

Covid-19 has distressed the global supply chain and manufacturing networks in every country. The pandemic sent shock waves across the manufacturing world in an unexpected and unprecedented way. For the first time in digital manufacturing history, demand, supply, and workforce availability have been affected globally at the same time.

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

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ThroughPut

MAY 20, 2021

Covid-19 has distressed the global supply chain and manufacturing networks in every country. The pandemic sent shock waves across the manufacturing world in an unexpected and unprecedented way. For the first time in digital manufacturing history, demand, supply, and workforce availability have been affected globally at the same time.

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2021

In DSD, instead of shipping truckload quantities of goods directly to a retailer’s regional distribution center every few weeks, a manufacturer has their own account representatives that sell to and service individual stores. Peet’s runs their DSD supply chain using an application from Körber (formerly known as HighJump Software).

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

On Monday, November 27th, Logility announced the purchase of privately-held Halo Business Intelligence. This announcement continues the trend of supply chain software market consolidation. Logility is a well-established player in the supply chain software market. The company was spun out of the parent company American Software.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It touches many departments, from production, procurement, shipping, accounting, and finance to marketing, warehousing, research and development, and sales. Supply chain management is increasingly making an impact on the overall functioning of the business and influencing C-suite decisions. Do you want to be managing people?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2021

Suppliers for all materials and services have to be found, vetted, negotiated with, qualified, ramped up, tracked, managed, kept competitive and governed. That is the purview of Procurement. Cash is king and cash flow management is the source of life, or the cause of death, of any company.

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Logility

JANUARY 16, 2018

Gartner defines demand sensing as "the translation of demand information with minimal latency to detect who is buying the product, what attributes are selling and what impact demand-shaping programs are having.“ This sounds a lot like the definition for demand planning to me. And now back to that crux.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

When I began my career there was no such thing as “Supply Chain Management” Supply Chain was not a title to be found anywhere on any organization chart. So what exactly is the definition of “Supply Chain Management”? Interestingly there are many views on how to define Supply Chain. Source: [link] ).

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ThroughPut

MAY 23, 2024

The Bullwhip Effect is a phenomenon where slight fluctuations in demand at the retail level cause progressively larger fluctuations in demand at the wholesale, distributor, and manufacturer levels. This inconsistency can cause significant issues in inventory holding costs and warehouse space management.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For example, take a company that manufactures product in the US based on components supplied from Indonesia. One Network will interoperate with most ERP and logistics management software systems, providing the ETL environment to load the required data sets. The Industry Operating Backbone can provide additional benefits as well.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

A recent study compiled by Deloitte reveals that those companies that were best equipped to respond to the disruption driven by the pandemic had strong relationships with their suppliers and the necessary analytical tools that helped with visibility into their broader supply networks. With an AI-powered demand sensing solution.

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EazyStock

APRIL 28, 2022

Inventory management teams need to know what, when, and how much to order. You could automate the following: customer relationship management, demand management, order fulfillment, manufacturing flow management, procurement, product development, commercialization and returns. Optimization tools.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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EazyStock

APRIL 28, 2022

Inventory management teams need to know what, when, and how much to order. You could automate the following: customer relationship management, demand management, order fulfillment, manufacturing flow management, procurement, product development, commercialization and returns. Optimization tools.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The partnership will empower mutual customers to not only plan logistics fulfillment effectively and efficiently, but also to forecast demand accurately with AI-powered insights and recommendations for rapid supply chain revenue rationalization. ThroughPut.ai

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The report recommends shifting toward a new approach of piloting automation tools over mere visibility and analytics, which will be powered by AI. Finally, decision intelligence can help select alternate suppliers to ensure more sustainable procurement of material. Let’s take the example of an Aerospace sensor company.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 15, 2018

While exploring a new approach to planning, a good place to start is with a tool familiar to many people, the Gartner five stage SCP maturity model. I t starts with horizontal alignment , connecting Demand and Inventory Planning with downstream demand sensing and upstream factory and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Demand forecasting helps the business make better-informed supply decisions that estimate the total sales and revenue for a future period of time. Demand forecasting allows businesses to optimize inventory by predicting future sales. Importance of demand forecasting for ecommerce. Types of demand forecasting techniques.

Forecasting 130

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Arkieva

JUNE 23, 2016

These planning and scheduling decisions occur across a complex playing field organized by decision tier (strategic, tactical, operational, and relevant time response) and organization (corporate planning, factory, marketing, purchasing, etc.). Demand Management. The three primary activities include: 1.

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