Analytics, Business Intelligence, Demand Planning and Forecasting, Healthcare, Supply Chain
Shared Metrics Drive Business Success
In the January-March 2018 issue of APICS magazine, APICS CEO Abe Eshkenazi contends that if supply chain leaders bring business success then that makes them business leaders. Mr. Eshkenazi goes on to state “organizations that consider their supply chains as strategic and competitive assets outperform the market”.
Analytics, Business Intelligence, Demand Planning and Forecasting, Supply Chain
How Do You Feel About Predictive Analytics?
I just read a blog post entitled How do you feel when someone mentions predictive analytics? Well, I feel like it’s a good thing. How about you?
Demand Planning and Forecasting, Healthcare, Supply Chain
Moving Stuff Back Up The Supply Chain
There has been a lot of focus on optimizing the supply chain for order fulfillment. The on-going efforts to perfect the ‘order to cash’ process have yielded great rewards. But what about returns? Automation has reduced the number of returns due to errors however the world must move from a linear to a more circular economy and this will impact the entire supply chain.
Demand Planning and Forecasting, Supply Chain
Role of the Distributor in a Demand-driven Supply Chain
There is a famous anecdote about Volvo car dealers heavily discounting green models because consumers preferred other colors. Volvo’s manufacturing plant, seeing the resulting spike in demand for green models, perceived it as consumer interest and upped the production. That’s right…even more green cars! Ouch!!
Demand Planning and Forecasting, Supply Chain, Warehouse Management
Warehouse Inventory Management: Getting The Right Product To The Right Person
When supply chain professionals plan for future demand, their thoughts gravitate to meeting customer service levels while minimizing the amount of capital tied up in inventory. Demand planning and warehouse inventory management is about having the right product in the right place at the right time … right? Four occurrences of the same word would cause my old English teacher to shudder at this excessive use of a word in a single sentence. However, let us return to the important business of meeting consumer demand without incurring the cost of excess inventory.
Demand Planning and Forecasting, Supply Chain
Measuring Forecast Accuracy – Getting Started
Improved forecast accuracy leads to many downstream improvements in operations and ultimately, on the balance sheet. That is why Gartner, Inc., a highly respected information technology research and advisory firm, puts forecast accuracy at the top of its pyramid of supply chain metrics. In a study published in February 2012, Gartner stated that a 6% forecast improvement could improve the perfect order by 10% and deliver a 10-15% reduction in unnecessary inventory.
