Retailers know firsthand how quickly the market can change. One day, a product is flying off the shelves, and the next, it’s gathering dust. That’s why it is important to stay on top of the supply chain planning trends – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs.
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Resilience in Supply Chain: AI-Driven Probabilistic Demand Planning
As businesses grapple with the newly imposed US tariffs, businesses are quickly adjusting their strategies to navigate these fresh disruptions. In budgeting and S&OP processes, demand planning remains a crucial starting point, especially under such uncertain trade conditions. More companies are now turning to scenario planning to proactively manage tariff impacts and build supply chain …
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Using AI & ML in Retail Supply Chain Planning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are hot topics being discussed in the retail world. Across the globe, whether they are grocery, mass merchant, or fashion, retailers are looking for ways to make faster and smarter decisions using this technology. Among the leading applications of AI & ML in planning are forecasting and replenishment processes.
Making Supply Chain Planning Agile with Modular Planning Technologies
Volatility and ambiguity are not going away from our lives. We need planning platforms to keep up with all the changes. Discover the importance of Composability in fickle times.
Autonomous Planning in Supply Chain: 4 Must-Haves for Next-Generation Platforms
Algorithms, Automation, Architecture and Agility are the 4 Must-Haves that differentiate the next-generation of supply chain planning platforms.
Digital Transformation Journey in Supply Chain Planning
Remember those times when we used to stroll down the block and find local stores such as the mom-and-pop diners and get the chance to relish the coziness and sense of family environment there. Even mom-and-pop stores and diners had to step up their digitalization game with the pandemic erupting. Being listed on a last-mile-delivery …
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Coronavirus & Retailers: How to build resilience?
COVID-19 is changing the way we think about almost everything: the way we live, the way we work, our plans for the future and our evaluations of the past. We hope these times of crisis will be over soon. We thought we should try and do our part to help people overcome the challenges that …
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3 Steps for Making Digital Transformation Happen in Supply Chain Planning
What is Digital Transformation? Digital transformation is transforming your decision-making processes with technology — utilizing new sources of innovation and creativity such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, virtual reality, to enhance customer experience and employee productivity and ultimately improve business performance. IDC’s Designing Tomorrow Survey of over 1,000 companies in America, Asia/Pacific, and Europe …
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How to Become an Agile Organization Through Digital Transformation?
Organizational Agility along with Digital Transformation, Machine Learning, Big Data and Blockchain technologies was one of main trending topics for 2018 and will continue to be in the hit list for 2019 as well. Each of the above topics deserves a blog on its own for sure. Let’s start with Organizational Agility and the role of …
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4 Keys to a Successful Supply Chain Visibility and Analytics Project
The study from the ARC Advisory Group (2016) and the most recent one from The Hackett Group (2018) are remarkably similar in their basic observations: “supply chain visibility & analytics” remains at the top-of-mind for the executives. Many large corporations want “supply chain control towers” to measure forecast accuracy across products and regions, understand regional differences in demand patterns, …
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