This holiday season, I find myself reflecting on omnichannel forecasting, and my days as a buyer for Bonwit Teller in the late 1980s. As buyers, we developed ou... Read More...
Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) is probably the least understood aspect in Supply Chain Management. It provides the key communication links for top mana... Read More...
What comes to mind when you think about the Demand Planning role? Sophisticated econometric models, highly analytical work, and number crunching? This was my fi... Read More...
If, like me, you work in a small to medium sized enterprise where forecasting is still done with pen and paper, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Machine Lear... Read More...
Simple initiatives add up to big gains. Many professionals feel that establishing a robust demand planning process in an organization is a long and arduous jour... Read More...
Last week we looked at cutting inventory through improving inventory quality (getting rid of obsolete or low value stock) and reclassifying mislabelled inventor... Read More...
The importance of a forecast really depends on the environment in which you operate. If you are fortunate enough to be in an environment where customer orders c... Read More...
Excel is Excel, right? Vlookups and Pivot Charts provide everything I need, so why would I upgrade to Excel 2016? If you are asking yourself this then boy, you... Read More...
At Hershey’s, our entire Latin American portfolio suffered from a malaise that plagues countless other corporations – a portfolio that drastically exceeds the o... Read More...
Innovation, or new product development, is an integral part of any organization that wants to grow and compete for market share. This doesn’t just involve brand... Read More...