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
How Successful Is Your Supply Chain?
Key factors for a successful supply chain – Product Assortment Visibility to Customer Wants and Needs Ability to successfully modify customer demand Inventory Management Supplier Relationship Management Product Assortment defines … 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
Inventory Counting With Drones at Walmart
Inventory Management has been a pain point for many companies – retailers, manufacturers and service companies alike. Companies have been fighting high inventories with various initiatives – from simple … Read More
Target Supply Chain Initiatives – Managing Suppliers
Introduction: In the past few years Target has expanded its business into selling fresh produce, meat and other perishable food items. With being ‘out of stock’ being the main pain … Read More
Are You Still Using Excel For Forecasting And Planning?
Some of the big names who have used our services and expertise include Honeywell, Pepsi Foods, Brown-Forman, Labatt, Yaskawa, Coleman, McCain Foods, Lindt and many other small and medium size companies.
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Questions on Advanced Demand Management Training Workshop
We have received several queries about our next Advanced Demand Management workshop. Below are some of the FAQs: What is “Advanced” about this workshop? The workshop content offer sessions on … Read More
Sailing Through The SAP APO Ocean
As we all know SAP is an Ocean where the chance of getting lost is quite high. Below are key takeaways from my experience while working on SAP Demand Planning … Read More
How To Define And Measure True Demand For Supply Chain Planning – A White Paper
Quite often we get these questions from our constituents and Network members about the definition of demand. 1) Can I consider shipments as my demand? What if we had … Read More
Help My MAPE Is Negative!
I have heard frequently calls for help saying MAPE is high or other complaints saying MAPE is unreliable. Recently we encountered two situations where the calculated MAPE and even the … Read More