Data Science
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3PL Capacity Planning: Shared Warehouses, Fleets and Clients
How a 3PL plans warehouse space, labor, docks and fleet for many clients at once: correcting client forecasts, pooling peaks, planning capacity layers, pricing…
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Post-Merger Supply Chain Integration: Network, SKUs and Systems
How to integrate two supply chains after a merger: mapping network overlap, rationalizing SKUs and suppliers, consolidating planning systems, the first 100 days, and…
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ABC XYZ Inventory Segmentation: Policies That Fit Each Item
How ABC XYZ inventory segmentation classifies items by value and demand variability, how to set service levels and review cycles for each of the…
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Prescriptive Analytics in Supply Chain: From Forecast to Decision
What prescriptive analytics in supply chain is, how it differs from descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analytics, why optimization over real constraints makes it prescriptive,…
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Exception-Based Planning: How Planners Work the Queue
How exception-based planning works: planners review only the lines that break a rule. How to set thresholds and alerts, what an actionable exception contains,…
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What-If Analysis in Supply Chain Planning: Types, Speed and Use
What what-if analysis in supply chain planning is, the demand, supply, capacity, cost and network scenarios planners run, how fast they need to solve,…
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Supply Chain Planning for Mid-Market Manufacturers: First Steps
How mid-market CPG manufacturers and distributors can plan production constraints and distributor networks with a small team, which planning modules to start with, and…
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Supply Chain Inefficiencies: Where to Look and How to Measure
Where supply chain inefficiencies hide and how to measure each one from data you already have: excess and obsolete stock, expediting, partial trucks, manual…
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Supply Chain Disruption Planning: Scenarios, Buffers and Triggers
How to plan for weather and climate events, supplier outages and demand shocks before they happen: rank exposed nodes by time to recovery, weigh…
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Supply Chain Planning for Mid-Size Retailers: Where to Start
When spreadsheets and ERP min/max rules stop scaling for a growing retailer, which planning processes to automate first, how big the planning team needs…
