Good Tidings From The Peak – Summary From Our Modeled Results
All Models are wrong while some are useful. The most useful models are the ones that work with limited and imperfect data and at a time of crisis when unbiased … Read More
Category: Demand Modeling
Demand Consensus During Crisis – What Does It Mean For Demand Planning To Put On a Firefighter hat?
All stakeholders are under pressure and double-booked to understand the impact of COVID-19 on their demand planning. Everyone is on their toes and trying to prepare multiple what-if scenarios for … Read More
Covid – 19 OR Novel Corona Virus Peak Occurence By Country
As I have written before, we were able to estimate Covid19 peak occurrence by country and by state for some US States based on available data that are being archived … Read More
Modeling The Covid-19 And It’s Global Invasion
Covid-19 Epidemic The World has entered an unusual period in modern times – a large scale epidemic that is spreading like wildfire across the globe and leaving economies in shambles … Read More
Empty Store Shelves – Supply Chain Risk Assessment During Turbulent Times
Demand Bull-whip With the advent of the Corona Virus in the USA, there is pandemonium in the economy besides the pandemic that is creating a lot of turbulence. The US … Read More
From The Worldometers.Info Website, Here Is The Latest Virus Tracker
Total reported cases are 90K as of this morning. Out of which more than half of those infected have recovered completely. About three thousand died or about 3.4% of the … Read More
Data Cleansing and Outlier Correction
The SCM planning solutions market is getting pretty crowded these days – almost everyone has a solution on the cloud for Demand, Supply, S&OP and analytics. As we examined the … Read More
Demand Sensing, DDMRP vs Demand Planning
There is a lot of commotion on the interface between demand and supply in practice. Several so-called “best practices” have emerged that actually confuse practitioners. But they also provide a … Read More
Flexible Supply Chains – And Broken Links
“The measure of a person’s strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.” Same holds true for businesses and supply chains. Hanjin Shipping … Read More
From Bricks to Clicks
There is a huge competition amongst e-tailers and retailers to win customers by providing good customer service and quick delivery. Furthermore, all of this at a low cost. With the … Read More