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Perspectives on autonomous supply chain decisions from the people building them. Practical takes on demand, inventory, supply, and turning recommendations into executed action.

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Always Get a “YES” in your Supply Chain Operations with Concurrent Planning
Read more ->: Always Get a “YES” in your Supply Chain Operations with Concurrent Planning“Yes” is a powerful word. We all enjoy hearing the answer “Yes” to all our requests, especially in business. But…
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4 Lessons We Can Learn From the Global Microchip Shortage
Read more ->: 4 Lessons We Can Learn From the Global Microchip ShortageIf you have recently been looking to purchase a car, a television, or a home appliance, you may have noticed…
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How AI Can Help Inventory Management
Read more ->: How AI Can Help Inventory ManagementUsing AI in inventory management helps enhance inventory replenishment, improve employee performance, support data accessibility and reduce cost
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Digital Transformation in Last Mile Delivery and Why It Should Matter to You
Read more ->: Digital Transformation in Last Mile Delivery and Why It Should Matter to YouLast mile delivery defines the last leg of the supply chain journey. Goods are taken from dark stores, special fulfillment…
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Intelligent Distributed Order Management: The Answer to Omnichannel Fulfillment Challenges
Read more ->: Intelligent Distributed Order Management: The Answer to Omnichannel Fulfillment ChallengesLast year, my cousin had a daughter, and I became an uncle for the first time. Naturally wanting to be…
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Sailing on OKR Ocean: Do not be afraid to tack!
Read more ->: Sailing on OKR Ocean: Do not be afraid to tack!At the end of 2019, we decided to implement OKRs at our company. At the end of 2020, we started…
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Digital Transformation Journey in Supply Chain Planning
Read more ->: Digital Transformation Journey in Supply Chain PlanningRemember those times when we used to stroll down the block and find local stores such as the mom-and-pop diners…
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Transforming the Grocery Shopping Experience with Last Mile Delivery
Read more ->: Transforming the Grocery Shopping Experience with Last Mile DeliveryIt was mid-March when my flatmate and I burst into a panic as the first cases of COVID-19 were officially…
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What Customer Success is and How to Implement It
Read more ->: What Customer Success is and How to Implement ItIncreasing churn, decreasing average ticket? Check out our tips on how Customer Success can help your business. Customer Success is…
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AI Solutions and Digital Supply Chains
Read more ->: AI Solutions and Digital Supply ChainsImagine you can control your production lines with a mouse click or a touchscreen swipe to optimize your supply chain…
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Time to leverage supply chain analytics
Read more ->: Time to leverage supply chain analyticsAre you using spreadsheets as a supply chain planning tool to collect and manage your data and perform analysis? Well,…
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Platform or a Collection of Tools: Which One Do You Prefer for your Digital Transformation Efforts?
Read more ->: Platform or a Collection of Tools: Which One Do You Prefer for your Digital Transformation Efforts?Imagine that you’ve decided to make your favorite chocolate chip cookie at home. You opened your favorite recipe, prepared all…
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DevOps Best Practices to Implement Before a Crisis
Read more ->: DevOps Best Practices to Implement Before a CrisisWhen the pandemic erupted, one of our top priorities as a SaaS company was to ensure that our response was…
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Coronavirus & The CPG World: What to do now and how to prepare for the future?
Read more ->: Coronavirus & The CPG World: What to do now and how to prepare for the future?At Solvoyo, we are also concerned about the COVID-19 pandemic. Our thoughts are with all human-kind and hope that the…
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Coronavirus & Retailers: How to build resilience?
Read more ->: 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…
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Weather-Influenced Demand Forecasting in 2020: 6 Key Observations
Read more ->: Weather-Influenced Demand Forecasting in 2020: 6 Key ObservationsIt is 2020; we now have reasonably accurate short-term weather forecasts. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the…
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Digital Twin is an old idea – just new to supply chain
Read more ->: Digital Twin is an old idea – just new to supply chainIt has been many decades since a circuit is designed digitally and its performance tested using a digital twin, an…
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Supply Chain Digital Transformation in the Age of AI
Read more ->: Supply Chain Digital Transformation in the Age of AIThere is a riddle I asked my kids when they were little. Although there are multiple variations of this riddle…
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Through the eyes of a High-School Student: A day in Solvoyo
Read more ->: Through the eyes of a High-School Student: A day in SolvoyoI am studying 10th grade in high school, and I am already confused about choosing my future job. I’m not…
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3 Steps for Making Digital Transformation Happen in Supply Chain Planning
Read more ->: 3 Steps for Making Digital Transformation Happen in Supply Chain PlanningWhat is Digital Transformation? Digital transformation is transforming your decision-making processes with technology — utilizing new sources of innovation and…
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Virgo in Supply Chain, Milk in Coffee
Read more ->: Virgo in Supply Chain, Milk in CoffeeI do not believe in horoscopes, but people tell me that my sign has everything to do with many of…
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How to Become an Agile Organization Through Digital Transformation?
Read more ->: 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…
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How Cognitive Learning Changes the Game in Supply Chain
Read more ->: How Cognitive Learning Changes the Game in Supply Chain“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives, it is not the strongest that survives, but the…
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Supply Chain Transformation, How Hard Can that Be?
Read more ->: Supply Chain Transformation, How Hard Can that Be?Growing up, I was a huge fan of comedian Steve Martin. For many a Halloweens I simply wore an arrow…
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Fire-side chat with Magdalena Yesil, founder, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author of the book #PowerUp
Read more ->: Fire-side chat with Magdalena Yesil, founder, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author of the book #PowerUpMagdalena Yesil is a force to reckon with! She has done many firsts in her life, including at Salesforce, where…
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4 Smart Supply Chain Strategies for Boosting Customer Experience
Read more ->: 4 Smart Supply Chain Strategies for Boosting Customer ExperienceThis is the best of times and worst times for retail. On one hand, online sales taking retail to new…
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4 Keys to a Successful Supply Chain Visibility and Analytics Project
Read more ->: 4 Keys to a Successful Supply Chain Visibility and Analytics ProjectThe study from the ARC Advisory Group (2016) and the most recent one from The Hackett Group (2018) are remarkably similar in their basic…
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Software as a Service, Cloud Computing and Pizza Margherita
Read more ->: Software as a Service, Cloud Computing and Pizza MargheritaI love a good pizza. I am not a big fan of deep dish Chicago style, or California style with…
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Resistance Is Futile: Machines Are Here To Stay, Embrace Machine Learning In Supply Chain!
Read more ->: Resistance Is Futile: Machines Are Here To Stay, Embrace Machine Learning In Supply Chain!Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been the talk of the industry a lot now. Resisting to adopt this technology…
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From How We Love to How We Innovate
Read more ->: From How We Love to How We Innovate“ENTJ?”; I was in my 20s when I did my first Myers Briggs personality test working in Corporate America. It…
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Are Your Planning And Retail Analytics Tools Fast Enough For Fast Fashion?
Read more ->: Are Your Planning And Retail Analytics Tools Fast Enough For Fast Fashion?Over the last decade, apparel retail has gone through a significant shift and has turned into a game of fast,…
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Lessons In Innovation From P&G Signal Summit 2017
Read more ->: Lessons In Innovation From P&G Signal Summit 2017As the world’s leading consumer products company, P&G has a well-deserved reputation for innovation – from reinventing the oral care…
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The Supply Chain Red Pill: How Machine Learning Can Transform Your Supply Chain
Read more ->: The Supply Chain Red Pill: How Machine Learning Can Transform Your Supply ChainAs I was growing up, one of my most recurrent dreams (other than being invisible), was to plant a chip…
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How Smart Is Your In-Season Pricing Capability?
Read more ->: How Smart Is Your In-Season Pricing Capability?In today’s dynamic and competitive retail landscape, value offering is becoming more relevant to apparel brands competing for the last…
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4 Supply Chain Analytics Capabilities For Specialty Retailers
Read more ->: 4 Supply Chain Analytics Capabilities For Specialty RetailersI have two millennial sons. They (and their girlfriends 🙂 ) represent the radically changed customer base faced by specialty retailers.…
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Supply Chain Planning in The Age of Trade Wars, Brexit and Damn, Daniel. Welcome to 2017
Read more ->: Supply Chain Planning in The Age of Trade Wars, Brexit and Damn, Daniel. Welcome to 2017As supply chain planners, much of what we do is to anticipate future outcomes and plan our activities around those…
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6 Reasons to Give Up Spreadsheets for Supply Chain Planning
Read more ->: 6 Reasons to Give Up Spreadsheets for Supply Chain PlanningSpreadsheet software is holding your supply chain performance hostage. True – spreadsheets are low cost, easy to use, extremely versatile…
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7 Reasons Why S&OPs Fail
Read more ->: 7 Reasons Why S&OPs FailSales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a fantastic concept when you first hear its tricks and promises. It helps organizations…
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4 M&A Trends in Supply Chain
Read more ->: 4 M&A Trends in Supply ChainThat acquisitions often fail is a well-known fact. We all remember the horror stories that were the coupling of SprintNextel or…
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An $88B Weight Gain: How Wholesalers Can Put Their Supply Chain Back in Shape
Read more ->: An $88B Weight Gain: How Wholesalers Can Put Their Supply Chain Back in ShapeRecently several partners have reached out to us putting Solvoyo in front of wholesalers and distributors and starting the conversation…
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5 Key Supply Chain Technology Recommendations from Leading Industry Experts
Read more ->: 5 Key Supply Chain Technology Recommendations from Leading Industry ExpertsFor the supply chain manager today, there are no dearth of online resources and expertise to guide them. From advisories…
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Tête-à-Tête With Orhan Daglioglugil of A101 Stores – A 2016 Supply Chain Pro-to-Know
Read more ->: Tête-à-Tête With Orhan Daglioglugil of A101 Stores – A 2016 Supply Chain Pro-to-KnowOn Feb 17, 2016 Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine named 28 supply chain leaders as the 2016 practitioner “Pro…
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Zen and the Art of S&OP Implementation: 3 Points to Consider
Read more ->: Zen and the Art of S&OP Implementation: 3 Points to ConsiderThat Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a critical business process is no longer in doubt. Today, surveys after surveys indicate the rising…
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Why Demand Forecasting Ain't Enough
Read more ->: Why Demand Forecasting Ain't EnoughForewarned is forearmed, they say. It’s an adage that supply chain managers seem to have taken a little bit too…
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Looking Forward to 2016 in Supply Chain Planning
Read more ->: Looking Forward to 2016 in Supply Chain PlanningThis post is an extract from a letter sent by Koray Dogan, our CEO, to all of Solvoyo’s customers and…
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5 Steps for Building a Lower Carbon Supply Chain Plan
Read more ->: 5 Steps for Building a Lower Carbon Supply Chain PlanWith the recent COP21 agreement, the focus is back once more on climate change and global efforts to reducing CO2emissions.…
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Part I – Paris 2015: Supply Chain Managers Need To Start Paying Attention To Climate Change
Read more ->: Part I – Paris 2015: Supply Chain Managers Need To Start Paying Attention To Climate ChangeWith climate scientists and negotiators from 190 countries recently announcing a landmark deal to cap the rise in global temperatures…
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Logistics & Transportation Providers: Planning for Success
Read more ->: Logistics & Transportation Providers: Planning for SuccessThere are leading and lagging economic indicators. Experts have debated the role and importance of various data points for years. Supply…
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Wayne's wORld: AB InBev – SAB MillerCoors Mega Suds Takeover – A Supply Chain View
Read more ->: Wayne's wORld: AB InBev – SAB MillerCoors Mega Suds Takeover – A Supply Chain ViewJust imagine, Budweiser-Coors Banquet Beer-Molson Canadian-Corona-Beck’s-Bud Light-Coors Light (The Silver Bullet)-Miller Lite (Less Filling, Tastes Great)-Michelob Ultra-Miller High Life (The…
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Don't Mistake Simple for Simplistic in Supply Chain Planning
Read more ->: Don't Mistake Simple for Simplistic in Supply Chain PlanningSimple and simplistic are words often misused interchangeably, but Albert Einstein understood the difference when he observed “Everything should be…
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