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Blockchain’s Potential to Authenticate Supply Chain Planning Data-image

Blockchain’s Potential to Authenticate Supply Chain Planning Data

Blockchain’s Potential to Authenticate Supply Chain Planning...

Blockchain and supply chain have great potential to work together, and blockchain has the potential to have a...

New Findings from the Gartner Supply Chain Users Wants and Needs Study-image

New Findings from the Gartner Supply Chain Users Wants and Needs Study

New Findings from the Gartner Supply Chain...

The annual Gartner Supply Chain Technology User Wants and Needs Study is one of the most comprehensive studies...

Probabilistic Forecasting Can Extend the Life of SAP APO-image

12 December 2017

Probabilistic Forecasting Can Extend the Life of SAP APO

Probabilistic Forecasting Can Extend the Life of...

Since the beginning of time – OK, since the beginning of demand forecasting --- the standard approach has...

How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity-image

7 November 2017

How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain...

Gartner has identified five stages of supply chain planning maturity and they say that 70-80% of companies plan...

Is Your Supply Chain Planning Ready for the “Experience Economy”?-image

17 October 2017

Is Your Supply Chain Planning Ready for the “Experience Economy”?

Is Your Supply Chain Planning Ready for...

Gartner says we are entering what they call the ‘Experience Economy”, where personalization, speed, agility and the ability...

Aligning Your Supply Chain Planning Message with Your CEO-image

Aligning Your Supply Chain Planning Message with Your CEO

Aligning Your Supply Chain Planning Message with...

"Growth and new products have spiked as the top priorities for CEOs and supply chain intensive industries when...

What Will a Supply Chain Planning Job Look Like in the Future?-image

26 September 2017

What Will a Supply Chain Planning Job Look Like in the Future?

What Will a Supply Chain Planning Job...

We have tackled the question of automation before, but his time I want to focus specifically on what...

What’s Wrong with your Supply Chain Planning System: Twelve Symptoms-image

13 September 2017

What’s Wrong with your Supply Chain Planning System: Twelve Symptoms

What’s Wrong with your Supply Chain Planning...

The right SCP technology avoids key symptoms that reduce planner productivity, plan timeliness and plan usability. Doctors look for...

Gartner’s Five-Stage Maturity Model for Supply Chain Analytics-image

Gartner’s Five-Stage Maturity Model for Supply Chain Analytics

Gartner’s Five-Stage Maturity Model for Supply Chain...

There are supply chain and demand analytics models that describe the type of analytics being deployed (e.g., descriptive, prescriptive, etc.)....

The Best Way to Set Inventory Targets?-image

The Best Way to Set Inventory Targets?

The Best Way to Set Inventory Targets?

Gartner’s insights are quite good and it’s not often that I disagree, but on the topic of setting...