The Consensus Driven & Collaborative Approach To Planning During A Black Swan Event
Erin Marchant, a senior leader in demand planning in the aviation industry, draws on her experience to reveal how to plan during times of disruption. Forecastin... Read More...
Supply Chain Planning During The Covid-19 Crisis
The onset and the spread of the coronavirus will entail alterations in the way supply chains and businesses are run. This is a truly both a humanitarian and an ... Read More...
6 Rules For Demand Planning During A Recession
This article first appeared in the summer 2019 issue of the Journal of Business Forecasting. It didn't anticipate a global pandemic but did anticipate a slowdow... Read More...
Balancing Supply & Demand: The 5 Core Steps
Alignment of demand and supply has been the subject of extensive research but is still a pain point for many organizations, causing either lost sales on the one... Read More...
The Impact of Coronavirus On Your Forecasts
Managing demand variability is one thing but a global pandemic? That’s a whole different story. If you thought forecasting sales and understanding consumer beha... 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...
10 Ways To Be A Better Demand Planner
As Demand Planners we hear a lot about technical skills but without the all-important soft skills, it is difficult to apply them in a meaningful way. Regardless... Read More...
How To Identify & Treat Outliers In Demand Planning
Unidentified and untreated outliers can generate false expectations for business, causing future disruptions, excess stock and loss of market opportunities. App... 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...