6 Tips To Get Promoted From Demand Planner to Manager
I was asked recently what it takes to move from Demand Planner to Demand Planning manager. Is it machine learning, AI and technical skills? No. They're importan... Read More...
Business Efficiency Planning For Effective S&OP
Business Efficiency Planning (BEP) works to align all functional areas around common business goals and enable and coordinate decision making to achieve the mos... Read More...
5 Laws Of Demand Planning You (& Executives) Must Never Forget
It is Friday evening and Taylor Swift tweets an endorsement for your product #lovinIt. Soon after, your cloud based analytical processor identifies this along w... Read More...
Collaborative Planning Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR) and the Extended Supply Chain
Has your organization been struggling to deliver a consistent fill rate to your client or service level to your client’s customers? Has it been challenging for ... Read More...
AI Is a Forecasting Silver Bullet, So Why Aren’t You Using It?
Artificial Intelligence has been widely praised for its ability to transform the supply chain for the better, from more accurate demand forecasting to real-time... Read More...
Making Sense Of Black Friday Planning
Whatever your industry, the global market is becoming increasingly competitive and the technological advancement that has made manufacturing products easier and... Read More...
Translating The Demand Plan Into The Supply Plan In FMCG Distribution
FMCG distributors are critical actors in the global supply chain. They manage a large variety of products and high levels of inventories and assets, and help en... Read More...
Demand Planners Guide To Speaking The Language Of Sales
There are differences between the operational and commercial mindset. The problem many of us demand planners have is not knowing how to speak the language of sa... Read More...
Book Review | Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions
“So I was wondering if you had a list of books you could recommend for me for Business Forecasting and Planning?” Nothing excites me more from a MBA student or ... Read More...
5 Rules For Truly Adaptive Supply Chain Planning
Companies that have survived decades of change have done so by flipping the script on long-established business tenets, and ripping up the rule book to adapt to... Read More...