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

Supply Chain Shaman

The question was, “How can I redefine demand planning processes to use channel data?” The Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. Starting to understand the issue with multi-tier demand planning?

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Fashion Industry Challenges Require Elegant Demand Planning

ToolsGroup

Demand for fashion products also has complex characteristics, with hard-to-predict, sporadic demand, high volatility and impulsive purchases. This article will explore the different retail channels and reveal tips for finally mastering demand forecasting for the fashion industry.

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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

ivalua

Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? That’s the question we set out to answer in our recent panel discussion with Procurement and Supply Chain experts. This could be why, according to Forrester, 82% of organizations regret their software selection within 12 months.

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Editor’s Choice: What Supply Chains Must Overcome to Deliver on the Consumer Promise

Logistics Viewpoints

Lower-income consumers and those using food assistance programs care the most about food waste as a purchase driver—again, suggesting it is a response to higher prices.” There were design principles used as the solution was built: Any design element must enable an improvement in freshness (shelf life) that the customer would receive.

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Optimization and Execution: How Manufacturing can lead the Industry Renaissance

DELMIA Quintiq

Only purpose-built solutions deliver realistic plans that can meet customer orders while managing the variability of supply and demand. Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and Planning & Optimization are both critical parts of the optimal solution.

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Dancing in the Ring of Fire

Supply Chain Shaman

His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. As a result, demand planning is largely manual, inventory management is a series of manual inputs, and production planning is via spreadsheet. (BTW,

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Learning to Speak the Language of Demand

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s start with these: Demand Sensing: The reduction of time to sense purchase and channel takeaway. Demand sensing is a process, automated by technology, that reduces demand latency. For the purchase of Tide at Walmart to translate to an order at P&G, the time is 5-7 days. Independent Demand.