Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

ARC defines supply chain planning (SCP) products as including supply planning, demand planning/inventory optimization, and network planning. Network planning solutions include supply chain design, integrated business planning, and end-to-end supply chain analytics.

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Logility

JUNE 7, 2023

Top 3 Demand Forecasting Mistakes —How To Avoid Them with Demand planning software Demand forecasting is a critical facet of successful business operations, acting as the helm guiding companies through the rocks hiding beneath the water of market demands. Neglecting these can distort your forecast.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This includes implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Demand Planning, Inventory Management, Transportation Management, and Warehouse Management applications. Over the years, they have invested in technology to streamline and automate a variety of business processes.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

To all of my supply chain, demand planning, and forecasting friends who found the year challenging (if not traumatic), rest assured: You were not alone then – and you’re not alone now. Lesson #2: Finding solutions in warehouses and distribution centers. “We

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

Within an organization, the words “Demand Planning” stir emotions. Seldom do we find a team excited about demand planning. They want to improve demand planning, but they remain skeptical that they can ever be successful in improving the process. Usually, it is not a mild reaction. It is too simplistic.

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Logility

MARCH 6, 2020

Stakeholders who care about forecasting in demand planning care about accuracy, and usually will not accept a new forecasting method unless it is rigorously validated against known forecasting benchmarks with proven accuracy. In this way, forecast accuracy trends can be leveraged in adjusting demand planning.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 2, 2016

Some of the most significant benefits has been to drive projections, which facilitated a decrease in required warehouse space and an overall inventory reduction of 20%. It provides us with the necessary information to make decisions on whether to change the forecast and build plan at the factory.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 12, 2020

Artificial intelligence has been applied to just about every supply chain application imaginable, including transportation management and execution, demand planning, supply chain planning, warehouse management, and order management. It has also been embedded in autonomous trucks, robots, and drones for navigation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide ; Clint Reiser. ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. I picked a good time to cover what is now well-known to be a hot market consisting of many successful warehouse automation suppliers. billion in 2019.

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SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The key to achieving this supply chain utopia lies in understanding the different types of warehouses and their strategic roles. Let’s dive in and discover the world of warehouses together. Importance of Warehouses in Supply Chain Management Warehouses play a pivotal role in the efficient functioning of supply chain management.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 17, 2016

Distribution centers are designed for receiving, warehousing, and shipment. Nucleus says labor costs per unit to pick from the store are typically six times higher than in a warehouse. Demand planning software can disaggregate the forecast down to the stock keeping unit level. Here’s why.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The following will delve into some of the intricate farm-to-table challenges that supply chains face across sourcing, demand planning, procurement and inventory management, transportation, and warehousing. There must be an end-to-end functional agreement of the design, its impacts, and benefits.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

It was precisely the industry’s inability to make real-time decisions (based on real-time data) that was at the root of depleted store shelves, clogged ports and warehouses overflowing with excess inventory. Supply Planning and Deployment : Will any intra-network disruptions cause imbalances in warehouse and transportation capacity?

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. Eliminate Before You Automate : Automation is critical to large, efficient warehouse operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Longbow Advantage’s main business has been doing warehouse management system (WMS) implementations. A few years ago, Longbow’s customers started to ask them to fix a problem they were having with their warehouse management systems. Warehouse professionals may need to overcome the objections of IT to using Rebus.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Demand planning processes lack standardization and self-reported data is suspect. In addition, the use of statistics to replace rules-based consumption (often termed “demand sensing”) reduced demand error of the forecast at the warehouse level by 33% as shown in figure 1. Implement Demand Sensing.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 12, 2022

10 Supply Chain use cases for your Demand plan. Everything else in your business is a response to this demand – your production facilities, warehousing, distribution, staffing and investment levels. Often the demand plan is just seen as an input into supply planning rather than the reason that planning exists.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

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.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Efficient warehousing is all about knowing what’s working, what’s failing, and what can be improved. When you measure and analyse the right warehouse KPIs, you can make better-informed business decisions based on real data. In this guide to warehouse KPIs: What are ‘warehouse KPIs’ and why should you use them?

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This transformation delivers many benefits, including increased sustainability, but it also creates demand-planning and production-planning challenges. To profitably serve demand, automakers need to get the product mix right across EVs, ICEs, and hybrids — but they also need to plan precisely by channel and region.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Demand Planning Models Really Can Learn. A supply chain planning model learns when the planning application takes an output, like a forecast, observes the accuracy of the output, and then updates its own model so that better outputs will occur in the future. So, a plan can be produced that predicts the emissions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2022

The disruptions caused by COVID-19 came in the form of port delays, warehouse quarantine requirements , and travel restrictions. Warehouses are likely to address the increasing workloads with a combination of labor and automation. Inflation Will Hinder Supply Chain Resiliency, Supply Diversification Efforts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 30, 2020

Traditional demand planning based on historical order patterns is obsolete. Build a data lake and implement demand sensing technologies to drive replenishment based on local market conditions. Share projections for demand and quickly unload containers. There will not be a new normal. Instead, expect constant change.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

The digital platform VF is transitioning to run their supply chain is SAP’s S4 HANA as the transactional backbone; Blue Yonder is being implemented for assortment planning, allocation, and retail planning; and they are implementing a solution from o9 Solutions for end-to-end supply chain planning. This will be about a 1.2

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ThroughPut

MAY 27, 2022

In Sales: How flexible is your demand planning and order fulfillment in light of high market variances? How quickly can you pivot to sudden spikes or drops in demand? How can you leverage big data for smart warehousing and logistics intelligently to aim for always on-time, in-full (OTIF) deliveries?

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 2, 2022

Mike has a degree in Marketing from Iowa State University and over 30 years of experience leading teams in Demand Planning, Inventory Control, Automated Storage Retrieval Warehouses & Transportation. Mike has developed a track record of converging people and technology to get exceptional results. About Mary Kay.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 15, 2024

In the broad sense, optimization refers to creating plans that help improve supply chain performance. But in mathematical terms, optimization is a mixed-integer or linear programming approach to finding the best combination of warehouses, factories, transportation flows, and other supply chain resources under real-world constraints.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Webinar – Demand Planning in VUCA Times with Ali Raza. ThroughPut’s AI-powered Supply Chain software predicts Demand, reorients Production Capacity, reassigns Warehouse Space, and reorders Materials optimally, so businesses minimize overpromising and under-delivering. About Seth Page. Seth Page LinkedIn.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Planning improves with predictive AI capabilities A growing number of factors influence the accuracy of supply and demand planning. Everything from changes in supplier availability to geopolitical issues force companies to update their plans to avoid risk and extra costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The primary payback for demand and supply solutions comes in the form of reducing the amount of raw material, work-in-process, and finished goods inventory a company needs to carry. A network design model figures out where factories and warehouses should be located. There are different types of supply chain planning solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. In this world of demand volatility, processes need to shift to be outside-in to use market data. Paid only when the wheels are turning, the asset-intensive carrier base struggled with wait times and warehouse inefficiences.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2024

Implementing a supply chain planning solution that could scale up to solve such a massive problem was anything but straightforward, and success was far from guaranteed. On the demand planning side, in some cases, carmakers provided Pirelli with visibility to dealer-level demand. Higher warehousing costs?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Grocery retailers are exploring dark stores , stores that have been converted to warehouses that are close to customers and support quicker and lower cost deliveries. This would be a trigger across the supply chain which would result in warehouse movements, maybe LTL, consolidation, and finally distribution and delivery of re-supplies.

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ModusLink Corporation

JANUARY 30, 2025

Effective Demand Planning and Forecasting Accurate demand forecasting is the cornerstone of a resilient supply chain. By leveraging data analytics, businesses can better anticipate customer demand, optimize production schedules, and avoid both stockouts and overstocking.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 9, 2020

They also must be working together in harmony to achieve maximum benefit from their capabilities: MOM Specifics: Visibility, synchronization and control over ALL operations: production, quality, warehousing, maintenance and field operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

During the early months of the pandemic, demand planning error jumped to 59%, up 14% from the pre-pandemic error rate of 45%. No matter what kind of demand planning solution was used, forecasting accuracy dropped. Forecasting Accuracy Was Terrible . Pre-pandemic that number was 27%.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The logistics of physical items usually involves integration of information flow, materials handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation, warehousing and often, security. Eco-friendly packaging, optimised transportation routes for fuel efficiency, and sustainable warehousing practices are the future.

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