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4 Supply Chain Analytics Capabilities For Specialty Retailers
I have two millennial sons. They (and their girlfriends 🙂 ) represent the radically changed customer base faced by specialty retailers. They buy with vastly…
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Supply Chain Planning in The Age of Trade Wars, Brexit and Damn, Daniel. Welcome to 2017
As supply chain planners, much of what we do is to anticipate future outcomes and plan our activities around those expectations so as to…
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6 Reasons to Give Up Spreadsheets for Supply Chain Planning
Spreadsheet software is holding your supply chain performance hostage. True – spreadsheets are low cost, easy to use, extremely versatile and universally known and…
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7 Reasons Why S&OPs Fail
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a fantastic concept when you first hear its tricks and promises. It helps organizations align their demand and…
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4 M&A Trends in Supply Chain
That acquisitions often fail is a well-known fact. We all remember the horror stories that were the coupling of SprintNextel or AOL Time Warner. So…
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Wholesale Distribution Inventory Planning by SKU and Branch
How distributors plan inventory across long-tail SKUs, many customers and several branches: service targets by segment, supplier minimums and volume deals, branch versus central…
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5 Supply Chain Planning Technology Recommendations From Experts
Five supply chain planning technology recommendations drawn from Lora Cecere, Gartner, Adrian Gonzalez, John Gattorna and Nucleus Research in 2016: supply planning, network design,…
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A101 Supply Chain: A 2016 Interview With Orhan Daglioglugil
Orhan Daglioglugil, named a 2016 Pro to Know, on how the A101 supply chain served a fast-growing hard discount chain: lean culture down to…
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S&OP Implementation: Process Design, Monthly Cycle and Roles
How to implement S&OP: scope and decision rights, the five-step monthly cycle, who owns each step, the data the process needs, scenario-based executive reviews…
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Forecast Accuracy Metrics: MAPE, WMAPE, Bias and FVA
How to measure forecasts with MAPE, WMAPE, bias and forecast value added, which level and lag to measure at, and why the same accuracy…
