Forecasting & demand planning - Articles - Page 6

Five Strategies for Retail Planning Success

May 7, 2020

In order to balance inventory levels while anticipating customer needs, retailers must implement a unified approach to product, cross-channel and customer strategy.

AI and Analytics: The Importance of Visualization and Data

April 20, 2020

Logility

The strong visualization of meaningful data is also crucial to a business’s success with artificial intelligence and analytics. It creates an engaging user experience that presents information in a highly intuitive way.

How Supply Chains Jumped From Business School and Into Our Lives

March 31, 2020

Bloomberg

The COVID-19 pandemic is playing out in ways that even the most rigorous corporate stress test would have likely missed in its scope and severity.

The Coronavirus Is Shattering Traditional Supply Chains

March 25, 2020

Sundar Kamakshisundaram, SCB Contributor

Having the flexibility to quickly adapt to abrupt supplier changes is key to surviving the crisis.

Weathering the Virus Outbreak, Retailers Must Also Prepare for Its End

March 23, 2020

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

As bad as things might seem right now, the situation is temporary — and retailers must be prepared for the flood of consumer demand that will be released by economic recovery.

Six Top Supply-Chain Strategies for 2020

March 19, 2020

Jeff Stiles, SCB Contributor

It’s no secret that today’s supply chains have become more complex than ever, with socioeconomic and market dynamics underscoring organizations’ need to respond to an outside-in, demand-driven world.

Hybrid Demand Sensing: Readying Supply Chains for Uncertain Times

February 28, 2020

Robert Kaufholz, SCB Contributor

Today’s supply chains are challenged by product-line proliferation, shrinking product lifecycles, increased complexity and massive amounts of data.

ANALYSIS

Streamlining Construction Supply Chains With Automated Replenishment

February 8, 2020

Jason Campbell, SCB Contributor

Analyst Insight: Many supply chains experience inefficiencies in receiving materials, and the construction sector is no exception. By optimizing demand forecasting, inventory management, and the setting of order cycles and quantities, and by increasing the level of automation in routine areas of replenishment, teams can focus their expertise on areas that require closer attention.

ANALYSIS

Don’t Chicken Out in Your Supply Chain

February 8, 2020

Nathanael Vlachos, SCB Contributor

Analyst Insight: The wildly successful social media campaign for Popeyes’ new chicken sandwich — which quickly led to critical supply shortages for the company — is a cautionary tale about the havoc that social media can wreak on supply chains. To avoid squandering opportunities afforded by unprecedented demand, supply chains need to run like well-oiled machines, with collaborative sales and operations planning (S&OP), a finger on the pulse of social media sentiment, best-practice scenario planning, and rock-solid supplier relationships.

Executive Insights on Demand Forecasting

January 30, 2020

Logility

This video highlights the perspective of several senior-level supply chain executives about demand forecasting methods they follow to support their respective digital supply chain initiatives.