When Customers Don’t Follow Their Own OTIF Rules
You may think that Demand Management in Supply Chain is straightforward. Oh, how wrong you would be! Here in the UK, we have a problem with OTIF (On Time, In Fu... Read More...
How To Build A Strategic Capability in S&OP
There's a huge amount of information on the deployment of S&OP – at the last count there were around 40 million hits on a combined search of S&OP and IB... Read More...
How S&OP Mitigates Risk In Pharma Distribution (AND SAVES LIVES)
Medicines must be delivered to patients at the right time, with the required quality, and at the right price. The consequences of stocks outs and poor forecasts... Read More...
How To Overcome The Silo Mentality
Silo Mentality will hold back any company, but for Supply Chain oriented companies it can be a death sentence. It is a term we are all familiar with, but many o... Read More...
Struggling To Be Heard In Demand Planning? How To Gain Influence
Do you feel that the information and knowledge that you have collected is overlooked? You’d expect the intelligence you possess would give you a seat at the dec... Read More...
Future Of Demand Planning Is Just S&OP, But Not As We Know It
It used to be that companies competed on price and service. Today, they are competing more on Big Data and technology. In the future, according to research by t... Read More...
Can You Forecast Better Than an 8 Year Old?
Can you forecast better than a first grader? I would hope so, and of course most of us can. After all, our experience with forecasting tools and methodology far... Read More...
Predictive Analytics: Real Life Use Cases
Since 2011, I’ve been teaching Supply Chain Risk Management at Lehigh University. Developing a new MBA class in Supply Chain Risk for our supply chain MBA stude... Read More...
AI In Demand Planning Has Created 4 New Job Roles
Predictions are big business. The market for predictive analytics is expected to reach $12.4 Billion by 2022 as Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more widesp... Read More...
How To Balance Demand & Supply In Omnichannel
Ecommerce is changing how we see Demand Planning and ushering in new rules and best practices. Traditional businesses that moved into eCommerce must deal with t... Read More...