Using AI to gain a competitive advantage over the next few years is not about better forecasts. What is often missed about predictive analytics is the power to ... Read More...
As a discipline, predictive analytics has been around for many decades and has been a hot topic in academia for many years. Its application in the field of dema... Read More...
So you set up an S&OP process and started doing demand planning. But your forecast accuracy isn't improving and your service levels are still low. Y... Read More...
Predictive analytics can help us estimate how many units we will sell of the product, but that’s not the only thing predictive analytics tells us about. Busines... Read More...
The new, special issue of the Journal of Business Forecasting & Planning is available for download now.
This is a particularly interesting issue of the j... Read More...
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It would be easy to see the demise of Sears R... Read More...
As we start each new year, there comes a fresh list of ideas or prognostications about future trends in demand planning and S&OP. These days everyone is usi... Read More...
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 (BEP) works to align all functional areas around common business goals and enable and coordinate decision making to achieve the mos... Read More...
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...
