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The Top 15 Omnichannel Retail Trends to Watch in 2023-image

The Top 15 Omnichannel Retail Trends to Watch in 2023

The Top 15 Omnichannel Retail Trends to...

Your digital and brick-and-mortar sales channels aren’t operating in separate vacuums. In fact, according to Harvard Business Review,...

Don’t Forecast Demand, Model Your Demand-image

Don’t Forecast Demand, Model Your Demand

Don’t Forecast Demand, Model Your Demand

Many companies are looking to demand forecasting and modeling to improve their supply chain perforamnce without understanding the...

Robots in the Building: The Positive Influence of AI for Supply Chain Planners-image

Robots in the Building: The Positive Influence of AI for Supply Chain Planners

Robots in the Building: The Positive Influence...

Have you looked at a job listing for a supply chain planner recently? The planner’s role has expanded...

Quick Start Guide to Using Machine Learning for Demand Planning-image

Quick Start Guide to Using Machine Learning for Demand Planning

Quick Start Guide to Using Machine Learning...

Anyone who has done demand planning knows it is extremely complex, with forecasting challenges and rapidly shifting consumer...

Recreating the Environment in which Historical Demand Occurred-image

Recreating the Environment in which Historical Demand Occurred

Recreating the Environment in which Historical Demand...

At last year’s Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference analyst Tom Enright summarized the essence of successful demand forecasting...

Demand Planning is the top Machine Learning App for Supply Chain Planning-image

11 December 2018

Demand Planning is the top Machine Learning App for Supply Chain Planning

Demand Planning is the top Machine Learning...

Gartner recently polled both users and vendors on which types of supply chain planning (SCP) applications were employing machine learning technology....

Advanced Analytics versus Artificial Intelligence-image

Advanced Analytics versus Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Analytics versus Artificial Intelligence

For firms with Advanced Analytics or Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their future, Gartner has just published a useful report with three findings...

How Not to use Machine Learning for Demand Forecasting-image

21 February 2018

How Not to use Machine Learning for Demand Forecasting

How Not to use Machine Learning for...

Eight years ago ToolsGroup was one of the first supply chain planning software vendors to employ machine learning...

Trade Promotion Forecasting: the Present and the Near Future-image

30 January 2018

Trade Promotion Forecasting: the Present and the Near Future

Trade Promotion Forecasting: the Present and the...

Trade promotion forecasting is difficult: getting it right involves factoring in many variables. Marketing people, who are often...

Will you be a Supply Chain Disruptor or the Disrupted?-image

28 November 2017

Will you be a Supply Chain Disruptor or the Disrupted?

Will you be a Supply Chain Disruptor...

You should be interested in applying disruptive technologies in your supply chain not only at a physical level,...