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Why SAP APO Can’t Forecast Demand in Complex Environments-image

Why SAP APO Can’t Forecast Demand in Complex Environments

Why SAP APO Can’t Forecast Demand in...

Manoranjith Pathekkara, managing director at LogicaMatrix (www.logicamatrix.com), writes on the inherent limitations of SAP APO that prevent it...

Will Your Team’s Skills be Ready for Supply Chain Planning in 2025?-image

Will Your Team’s Skills be Ready for Supply Chain Planning in 2025?

Will Your Team’s Skills be Ready for...

What will supply chain planning look like 10 years from now? It’s a tough question, but Gartner analysts...

The Role of Inventory Optimization in a Market-Driven Supply Chain-image

The Role of Inventory Optimization in a Market-Driven Supply Chain

The Role of Inventory Optimization in a...

It’s time to rethink inventory. For years it’s been portrayed as a place where working capital goes to...

Reduced Latency – Gartner on “Sense and Respond” Supply Chain Planning-image

Reduced Latency – Gartner on “Sense and Respond” Supply Chain Planning

Reduced Latency – Gartner on “Sense and...

Gartner says supply chain planning needs to move to more of a "sense and respond" model—reducing the latency between...

Reducing Latency in Supply Chain Planning – Seven Ways to Get Started-image

Reducing Latency in Supply Chain Planning – Seven Ways to Get Started

Reducing Latency in Supply Chain Planning –...

Last week we focused on reducing latency in supply chain planning by moving closer to real-time execution via continuous...

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The Evolution of Forecasting

The Evolution of Forecasting

You don’t want to be on the left side of the above forecasting evolution chart -- which represents...

Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization and Fast Time-to-Benefit-image

27 January 2015

Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization and Fast Time-to-Benefit

Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization and Fast Time-to-Benefit

Multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) may sound like a mouthful, but the concept is simple—create the best strategy, across...

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Best-of-Breed vs ERP Supply Chain Planning

Best-of-Breed vs ERP Supply Chain Planning

Using quantitative data to support conclusions that formerly were in the realm of conjecture and opinion is changing...

“When Worlds Collide”: Technology Drives a Convergence in Supply Chain Planning and Execution-image

18 November 2014

“When Worlds Collide”: Technology Drives a Convergence in Supply Chain Planning and Execution

“When Worlds Collide”: Technology Drives a Convergence...

A recent Supply Chain Digest benchmarking study showed that most supply chain executives (83%) believe that planning cycles will accelerate...