Why Digital Transformations Fail & What To Do About It
I wrote an article for the Journal of Business Forecasting a few years ago about dangerous habits that lead to software abandonment. Since then I have refl... Read More...
Software & Systems
Demand Sensing & Shaping With Starbucks
Are you a Starbucks customer? If so, the coffee chain is analyzing your purchases to create a personalized experience for you – and to get you to spend more mon... Read More...
From Excel To Power Bi – My Demand Planning Journey
When it comes to the term “S&OP”, there is some uncertainty around how it all started. Some say it started with Oliver Wight in the early 1980’s, others... Read More...
4 Dangerous Habits That Lead to Planning Software Abandonment
Keeping up with available technology and being able to respond to the rapid changes in the market make it necessary for organizations to adopt “new” plannin... Read More...
Lessons Learned From S&OP Systems Implementation In The Cloud
As demand planners/supply chain planners, we now have a range of advanced supply chain planning solutions available to us. The options are wide-ranging, but one... Read More...
Should I Use Open Source Instead Of Demand Planning Software For Forecasting?
You’re not going to get advanced modeling like machine learning in Excel. Excel can’t handle large data sets either, making it clunky and problematic. And when ... Read More...
The Differences Between Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive & Cognitive Analytics
Thanks to Big Data, computational leaps, and the increased availability of analytics tools, a new age of data analysis has emerged, and in the process has revol... Read More...
SPECIAL TECHNOLOGY ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD NOW
The special issue of the Journal of Business Forecasting, Technology in Forecasting & Planning, is now available for download. Download it here. This spe... Read More...
Demand Planning Predictions For 2020
As forecasters, we rely on data to look at the past and use models to provide insight into the future – this is not one of those times. The following, rather, i... Read More...
In New Product Forecasting, Human Beats Machine
The world of forecasting today is filled with machine-related buzzwords like AI, predictive analytics and machine learning. Will all of forecasting be done by m... Read More...