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Success Strategies for Demand Forecasting in Supply Chain-image

2 December 2021

Success Strategies for Demand Forecasting in Supply Chain

Success Strategies for Demand Forecasting in Supply...

There’s been a lot of change in how we view supply chain demand forecasting: we moved from a...

7 Ways Businesses Can Manage Supply Chain Shortages in 2022-image

23 November 2021

7 Ways Businesses Can Manage Supply Chain Shortages in 2022

7 Ways Businesses Can Manage Supply Chain...

With 2021's holiday shopping season behind us, supply delays, logistics constraints, and inflation loomed over shoppers and retailers—and...

Five Tips for How to Run a Successful Software Proof of Concept (POC)-image

Five Tips for How to Run a Successful Software Proof of Concept (POC)

Five Tips for How to Run a...

Selecting and implementing a new supply chain solution is a risky career move for any supply chain manager....

For Distributors, Mitigating Supply Uncertainty Begins with a Better Forecast-image

For Distributors, Mitigating Supply Uncertainty Begins with a Better Forecast

For Distributors, Mitigating Supply Uncertainty Begins with...

Distribution industry supply chains have always been squeezed between manufacturers and their customers; facing increased competitive threats, escalating...

Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) vs. S&OP-image

Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) vs. S&OP

Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) vs. S&OP

S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) or SIOP (Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning) is a well known supply chain...

How Supply Chain Planning Can Create Profit in a Declining Market-image

How Supply Chain Planning Can Create Profit in a Declining Market

How Supply Chain Planning Can Create Profit...

When a business finds itself in a declining market, failing to stay in lock step with customer demand...

Decoding the Language of S&OP-image

11 September 2018

Decoding the Language of S&OP

Decoding the Language of S&OP

Since demand forecasting has developed many “personalities” over the decades, I recently wrote a blog that “decoded” the...

Analysts Support a Single Model for Sales and Operations Planning-image

Analysts Support a Single Model for Sales and Operations Planning

Analysts Support a Single Model for Sales...

A new report from Nucleus Research, Value Drivers of Single Model S&OP, concludes that the historical disconnect between...

Avoid “Lost in Translation.” Monetize S&OP to Include Finance.-image

Avoid “Lost in Translation.” Monetize S&OP to Include Finance.

Avoid “Lost in Translation.” Monetize S&OP to...

Finance speaks a different language than supply chain. But by monetizing Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), supply chain...

Gartner says “Add S&OP to your Financial Planning”. Here’s Why.-image

Gartner says “Add S&OP to your Financial Planning”. Here’s Why.

Gartner says “Add S&OP to your Financial...

“Based on our research, every organization which aligns top-down financial plans with bottom-up demand plans, as part of...