Demand Planning

In many industries, demand has never been more volatile and unpredictable than during the COVID-19 pandemic, in this article we detail seven action items to drive demand planning despite an unprecedented crisis.

According to McKinsey & Company, the coronavirus pandemic’s unprecedented tests are inspiring companies to consider bold moves in rebuilding their supply chains for the future.

More than half of retailers are struggling to respond to rapid shifts, and 46% of average or underperforming retailers focus on cost at the expense of flexibility.

Listen in as AGCO's Greg Toornman joins hosts Abe Eshkenazi and Bob Trebilcock to discuss how one of the world’s leading manufacturers of agricultural equipment navigated the pandemic without missing a shipment.

There’s much to learn from the toilet paper shortage of spring 2020

New technologies could revolutionize planning and radically change the role of the supply chain planner. Here is how to prepare your organization.

Supply chain organizations routinely rank demand planning immaturity as a major obstacle in meeting their supply chain goals.

Nulogy CEO, Jason Tham, addressed the SCALE.AI community in Montreal, to address the role Artificial Intelligence (AI) will play in the emerging cognitive supply chain.

Only a scalable, interoperable supply chain planning and optimization platform can ensure a company’s supply chain performance is optimized

Forecasting Techniques that Produce Superior Results.

Companies challenged by a fast-changing business environment have a number of opportunities for minimizing working capital tied up in inventory while improving supply chain agility and increasing customer satisfaction.

An overwhelming 78 percent of America’s e-retailers are planning to increase tech spending in 2018, more than a third of which will boost spending by 15% of more, according to Internet Retailer’s “2018 Guide to E-Commerce Technology.”

Inventory buffers can counteract the effects of inaccurate forecasts...but, are you setting wrong inventory targets because your inventory optimization solution doesn’t understand how bad the forecast really is?

The food & beverage industry faces a lengthy list of unique challenges from long raw material lead-times and volatile commodity pricing to safety and quality requirements combined with high demand uncertainty, frequent new product introductions, perishability and complex manufacturing constraints.

A forecast is more than a projection of future business; it is a request for product (or a request for resources to ensure supply of a product). Forecast accuracy is crucial for achieving both customer service goals as well as ensuring proper utilization of resources to drive profitable business growth.